The agricultural education curriculum in high schools should be enriched to provide students with a total vocational agriculture program beyond production agriculture. (GB)

Expresses dissatisfaction with programs, and proposes new model based on satellite center concept designed around neighborhood Health Center Model involving clusters of schools. Summary of paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of American School Health Association, Philadelphia, 1969. (Author/CJ)

Provides information on inservice education for secondary reading teachers which indicates that Ohio teachers have positive attitudes toward reading, that they are creating changes through inservice programs, and that statewide cooperation and school system-university cooperation have resulted in model teacher training programs. (MD)

Criticizes present means of identifying and correcting reading problems as inadequate and makes several recommendations for the raising of reading standards through improved programs, teacher education, and better problem identification. (MD)

Describes the Instructional Quality Inventory (IQI) for formative evaluation of systematically developed instructional programs, its classification scheme for objectives and test items, and procedures for checking programs for adequacy, consistency and presentation. Accounts of two studies are given to support the usefulness of the IQI. (EAO)

Argues that to improve a reading program, administrators need to hire teachers who know what's involved in good reading instruction. Provides a sample interview of a prospective teacher and a list of useful interview questions, all based on research into what makes reading instruction effective. (FL)

Describes the successful use of the Delphi Dialog Technique (a goal-setting process) at East High School, Anchorage, Alaska, where it was used to obtain consensus among staff members about school-growth targets. (JW)

Defines inservice, provides criteria for planning and conducting successful inservice programs, discusses its critical elements, and examines the roles of the administrator and the teacher in successful programs. (FL)

Data from a 1979 survey of American state agencies for higher education indicate that obstacles to modifying and/or terminating academic programs can be placed into eight categories. The eight categories and a variety of coping devices are discussed, and a conceptual coping process model is proposed. (Author/MLW)

Proposes techniques to help instructors of preservice teacher education programs in social studies improve their programs. Techniques involve collecting data from the schools, determining a definition of social studies, selecting teaching competencies and instructional strategies, and assessing teachers' and student teachers' abilities to perform…

Describes a four phase strategy used to identify, critique and improve an existing student services program consisting of collecting information, exchanging information among service units and faculty, publishing a student services handbook, and evaluating existing service effectiveness. (Author/JAC)