The purpose of the study was to trace and document by means of historical research methods, the organization of the St. Louis Public School System's elementary reading curriculum in regard to instructional methodology, legislation, and influential personalities. Chronologically, the study covered the period 1821-1973. The reading curriculum of the…

The ability of a state education agency (SEA) to respond to the challenges of tomorrow may well depend on the type of governing structure established by the state for the administration of the state's educational policies. The governing structure of an SEA is defined as the composite of the state board of education (SBE), the chief state school…

This study explores the effect of school location (city or county) on the relationship between four independent variables (number of private schools, existence of social elite enrolled in private schools, private school affiliation, and private school type) and a series of eight attitudinal items tapping public school superintendents' ideas on two…

Four articles designed to assist the individual community college trustee in meeting his or her institutional commitment and to encourage trustee communication are presented. "Women in Higher Education: A Trustee's Viewpoint," by Alberta Perry, describes the specific steps a college should consider to strengthen the effectiveness of its commitment…

This is a report of two two-day institutes which were designed to encourage increased and more effective activity in school desegregation in the Southeastern region. Each participant received copies of desegregation guidelines and a set of publications for essential background information. Kickoff speakers focused attention on progress in…

This project used interviews, questionnaires, and bibliographic research to investigate the role and attitudes of sponsors, performers, and users of educational research and development. The report is in five chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 present findings on sponsors; chapter 3 reports on performers; chapter 4 describes users; and chapter 5 presents…

School superintendents constrained by an administrative ideology that is obsolete face a dilemma in responding to the social and cultural changes currently taking place in American society. For the emergent role of the school superintendent to be consonant with societal change, four propositions are suggested: (1) Greater power and influence…

A study was made to determine the extent to which educational innovations developed through federally funded projects of Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are continued and thus adopted by the local public school system or by other school systems in the United States. Information was obtained by a questionnaire survey of the…

Secondary school industrial arts teachers, industrial arts teacher educators, superintendents, and architects were surveyed to determine what role the secondary school industrial arts teacher should have in the planning of industrial arts facilities. The findings indicated that teacher educators considered it more important for industrial arts…

This book acquaints the school administrator with the need for good press relations and suggests ways to obtain such relations. A brief overview of the internal workings and concerns of a newspaper staff is presented. Methods of writing news copy for release and how to time releases for maximum news coverage are explained. Throughout the volume,…

This report contains nine speeches presented at a Conference on Designing Doctoral Programs in Education held at Kansas State University on June 28-29, 1968. Titles included are: 1) "The Role of Doctoral Programs in Today's and Tomorrow's University"; "Trends in Student Personnel Work: Implications for Graduate Education"; "Research Training in…

The major purpose of this study was to identify some of the variables associated with the decisions of school superintendents to submit applications for funding under the provisions of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. By means of a questionnaire, 200 randomly selected public school superintendents were requested to submit data concerning…

This report is based on a questionnaire, on the subject of education in moral values, sent to all of the school superintendents of the state. The four open-ended questions included on the questionnaire were designed to elicit from the superintendents statements concerning what their schools are currently doing in regard to education in this…

A study was conducted to determine how Texas school districts that adopted an innovation in special education differed from the more than 1,250 that did not. Ten randomly selected districts from the 40 that adopted change were matched with 10 non-adopter districts. Members of the district power structure (as related to special education) were…

This annual directory lists all local agencies providing free public elementary and secondary education in the United States and its outlying areas. The listing includes all systems regardless of size, as well as nonoperating public school districts. The main body of the directory lists, in alphabetical order by State, the local public school…