This paper is addressed to the French teaching profession at large. The teacher's responsibilities toward his or her students, professional colleagues, administrators, professional associations, and the community are reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on the obligations of the teacher trainer. Those responsible for educating new French…

This booklet discusses the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) and its implications for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel. The authors examine in detail particular provisions of the act and offer numerous guidelines for maintaining and utilizing student records in compliance with the act. Separate sections…

Twelve members of the Rhode Island Board of Regents, 14 administrators of Rhode Island Junior College (RIJC), and 14 officers of the RIJC Association were polled concerning who should set educational policy in twenty different areas. Responses were received from 6 regents, 10 administrators, and 10 faculty. Response data is given for the overall…

This booklet describes the kinds of child care arrangements parents can currently make for children under three years of age. Some of the essential features of these arrangements are discussed: continuity of care, safe environments, consistency in parent and caregiver child-rearing values, stimulation for the children, social play, and some…

The focus of this paper is on the immediate and long-range advantages of parent involvement, the definitions and implications of varying levels of parent involvement in child care center operations, and the general means by which a chosen level of involvement might be achieved. The advantages of parent involvement are discussed briefly in terms of…

This document has three parts: (1) an updated job description of the secondary school principalship, (2) a modern approach to an evaluation of the principal's performance, and (3) a statement of how to determine salaries for principals. The text stresses that the principal must perform a variety of roles: educational leader; administrator;…

Focusing on basic instruction, inservice training, research, and coordination of functions and personnel, this study used a theoretical model approach to develop guidelines for more effective extension educational operation and leadership by West Pakistan Agricultural University. A brief analysis of the cultural and socioeconomic situation in West…

The purpose of this study was to draw a comprehensive, reliable, and current profile of the Texas senior high school principalship. Data were gathered through distribution of a questionnaire to principals in each of five University Interscholastic League school classifications. Included in the questionnaire were sections dealing with personal…

Challenging both the extreme libertarians and the extreme moralists, this book explores the public interest in moral norms and moral character and discusses how that interest is best served. Chapters are devoted to (1) "The Evolution of Standards and the 'Roth' Case," (2) "Aftermath of 'Roth'," (3) "The First Amendment and the Free Society:…

The objectives of this investigation were (1) to identify functional informal school-community relations programs in the 73 largest U.S. school districts, and (2) to provide information for educators wishing to organize similar programs. Data from questionnaires sent to the 73 districts revealed that 20 districts had informal school-community…

This report contains digests of 1967 court decisions dealing with legal and constitutional issues of importance to teachers. All levels of the State and Federal judiciary systems are represented by the decisions. The 82 case digests are arranged under the following topic headings: (1) Eligibility and certification, (2) salaries, (3) contracts, (4)…

The Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) seeks to improve the educability of young deprived children through a tight interaction of research, training, and demonstration. One aspect of research involves intervention with families, including mother training, curriculum for the child, and home visits. Partial results…

American society needs a system of lifelong learning; the ability of the American people to live and work together in self-government is not keeping pace with the demands of today's complex and increasingly troubled society. To achieve an effective and balanced system of adult and continuing education in the United States it is essential that the…

Two hundred and thirteen inservice elementary teachers who were enrolled in courses in Early Childhood-Elementary Education at the University of Maryland were questioned to obtain some information about elementary teachers' personal reading, to draw warranted inferences concerning the teaching of reading, and to suggest steps for improvement…

Multigrade planning-teaching teams, initiated in the laboratory school of Central Washington State College, have proved effective in improving inservice education. The team concept is based upon the assumptions that the teacher must know his students and, also, have some degree of specialization in the various subject areas. Each multigrade team…