This booklet describes implementation processes that are most likely to bring project success. The experiences of the Rural Education Program in the field, together with the findings of the implementation research, lead the author to believe that a successful implementation process is one that utilizes mutual adaptation. This process promotes…

This booklet explains a program of discipline and suspension for students who come in conflict with school policy. The Alternative Discipline and Suspension Program (ADSP) operates in an environment of strict adherence to set rules where a student must earn advancement through and eventually out of ADSP back to regular classroom attendance. This…

These Congressional Hearings consist of public testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Criminal Justice concerning proposed legislation designed to prohibit the sale of children in interstate and foreign commerce. Much of the testimony focuses on the increasingly widespread, marginally legal practices of selling infants…

In this book, young women who relinquished their babies for adoption and young women who kept their children share some of their feelings about and attitudes toward adoption. Chapters focus on parenthood by choice, readiness for parenthood, how adoption agencies work, independent adoptions, adoption by relatives, fathers' rights, dealing with…

When implementing an innovation, a multitude of components interact to change not only the users, but the innovation as well. This guide explains the concept of innovation configurations, or adaptations made in innovations during implementation. After presenting and discussing past research on innovation changes, the report outlines a five step…

IT IS GENERALLY RECOGNIZED THAT COMPATIBILITY IN ADOPTION DEPENDS ON A SOUND EVALUATION OF THE ADOPTIVE PARENTS AND OF THE INFANT AND THAT THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD ARE SERVED BY EARLY PLACEMENT IN A PERMANENT HOME. EARLY ASSESSMENT OF THE INFANT, ON WHICH PROPER PLACEMENT IS DEPENDENT, MUST BE PRIMARILY PREDICTIVE. HOWEVER, EXISTING INFANT…

The effects of involving vocational agriculture teachers in the development and experimental use of overhead projection masters were tested in this study. Sixteen teachers attended a workshop and outlined the content for an experimental set of masters. After experimental use of this set at a subsequent workshop, 35 vocational agriculture teachers…

THIS WAS ONE OF FOUR SEMINARS CONDUCTED TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. OBJECTIVES WERE TO DEVELOP (1) A CONCEPT OF THE ROLE AND THE ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN STATE PROGRAMS, (2) AN UNDERSTANDING OF A FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR CONDUCTING A PROGRAM OF…

A NEW CONCEPT OF SUPERVISED PRACTICE WAS INTRODUCED AT THE 1963 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURE TEACHERS. IT STATED THAT STUDENTS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO SELECT THEIR SUPERVISED PRACTICE ACTIVITIES FROM THE BROAD FIELD OF AGRICULTURE RATHER THAN LIMIT IT TO PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE. THIS STUDY WAS EXPECTED TO (1) IDENTIFY THE LEVEL…

Many National Diffusion Network facilitators have expressed the desire for an expanded source book on Developer/Demonstrator projects that they can use in conjunction with "Educational Programs That Work" and the "Materials Inventory" in planning awareness and training activities and negotiating adoptions. This directory is a…

This paper reports on more than five years of research on teachers who were engaged in or associated with the process of working on educational change. During this period many variables that may influence individual teacher decisions regarding change were studied. This paper reports findings regarding the apparent influence of these variables on…

In 1975, The Texas Board of Education adopted instructional resources as a priority area and chose Learning Resources Centers (LRC) to be used as the means for implementation. Title IVC funds were granted for the 1976-1977, 1977-1978, and 1978-1979 school years to develop, plan, and field-test an LRC model which used a paraprofessional staff…

While hiring and advancement considerations are of paramount importance to the faculty member as well as to the institution where collective bargaining agreements are negotiated each year, other employment conditions are accorded almost as much consideration. Allowances for leave follow closely on the heels of placement and promotion conditions in…

This paper reports findings of a retrospective longitudinal reconstruction of child welfare service activities in Canada. The first section discusses demographic developments and the child welfare services. It is reported that the increase in the number of children in care in the 20-year period from 1940 to 1960 was to some extent a reflection of…

As part of a symposium evaluating the prospects for eliminating sex discrimination in schools through institutional advocacy, network building, and planned interventions, this paper summarizes the successes and setbacks of sex equity advocacy in California. It reviews theories of innovation diffusion in organizations, documents their application…