Retrospective assessments by 20 rural administrators who had participated in a five-year Rural Experimental Schools Project (1972-1977) sponsored by the National Institute of Education were investigated to ascertain which factors they felt inhibited or facilitated the process of change in a rural school setting. Information was gathered during a…

A comparative analysis was made of two vastly different educational innovations: the children's television program "Sesame Street," and the computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs of the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences. The study was complicated by their distinct objectives and by their widely different…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of self-monitoring on classroom participation. Twenty-four male and twenty-four female sixth-grade students were randomly assigned to four treatment conditions: (1) self-monitoring participation; (2) self-monitoring non-participation; (3) teacher request; and (4) control procedure. Students in…

The proceedings of a two-day conference on individualization in Canadian high schools are summarized. Addresses from four general sessions are included in their entirety, along with 20 unedited transcripts from oral presentations at simultaneous workshops. Written comments and biographical notes from speakers precede each presentation. Topics…

The administrative information and communication system for public education in Bolivia has been a matter of concern to the authors for several years. This report is the outgrowth of that concern. Part 1 describes the present communications/information system and concludes that there is a weak infrastructure together with a total lack of…

Lifelong learning in the United States and recurrent education in Europe are new models of education that permit those beyond post compulsory education to have access to higher education throughout their lifetimes. The rationale behind these models is based on the idea of a "learning society" that accommodates changing social and…

On January 12, 1972, the Subcommittee resumed its hearings on the impact of agribusiness and agrigovernment on the welfare of the family farmer, the farm worker, and the rural community. Witnesses testified on such topics as: (1) problems of rural poverty; (2l some of the court litigation taking place in Fresno County; (3) the syndication of…

The authors describe (1) methods for evaluation of a strategy for community involvement in educational problem-solving being developed by a regional laboratory, and (2) initial results obtained in several schools and communities in western states. Critical elements of the strategy include outside change agents and representative school-community…

Successful educational improvement efforts stem from processes and forces that are indigenous to a given setting. Efforts at problem-solving stimulate and are reinforced by a closely related phenomenon: the individual and professional growth of the persons involved. Developmental efforts in education must proceed from a substantially different…

This book describes in detail the experience of professional personnel in the Atlanta City School System during two years of planning and five years of operating a year-round, four-quarter school plan involving 32,000 high school students. Content of the book focuses primarily on four areas concerning the year-round program: its beginning,…

This book describes a practicum project that developed instruments and procedures to aid staff members of the California State Department of Education in monitoring multiple educational programs. The instruments and procedures developed were used by staff members to analyze applicable federal and state regulations and evaluate program quality for…

This publication describes a practicum project that developed a comprehensive educational evaluation system for collecting, storing, and displaying pertinent data for use in planning educational programs at both the district and school level in the City School District of New Rochelle. The resulting New Rochelle Evaluation Model was developed from…

Affirmative action was intended as the vehicle to bring about equal opportunities for minorities, including the Hispanics who had been for the most part effectively shut out from full participation in higher education. After more than a decade of affirmative action, there has been little noticeable improvement for the Hispanic in higher education,…

Assuming that a romanticized view of American Indians is as disasterous as a bigoted view, this paper considers some alternatives for Native American life directions which go beyond the present narrow choices of either total assimilation within the white value system or isolation on the reservation. Major points presented are: (1) forced…

Career education became a force for educational change in 1971 when the federal government provided the initiative and "seed" money to develop career education models in each state. The response of school systems and its implications are explored in this article. The first section focuses on the definition of career education as an…