To clarify the role expectations held for the cooperative special education director in North Dakota, questionnaires were sent to 30 public school superintendents, 22 special education directors, and 30 special education teachers. Results of the questionnaire showed that the rankings of the seven task performance areas identified in the survey…

Included in this report on the 1977 Title IV Part A Technical Assistance conference held in Albuquerque are: (1) a descriptive narrative of conference events; (2) a summary of the 120 evaluation responses; and (3) the resolutions adopted by conference participants as a specific vehicle to make their concerns known to the Office of Indian Education…

This 715-item bibliography on teacher-school board negotiations updates the earlier bibliography by Owen G. Arnold and John Gordon Taylor published by Phi Delta Kappa in 1967. This revision contains more than double the number of items which appeared in the earlier publication, indicating the expansion of the field. Items cited, dating from 1956…

Based on the results of a study on the process of change in urban education, this scholarly paper discusses the design of the study and sets forth common characteristics or "essential conditions" of innovative school districts. These are: a citzenry that encourages and supports change, an assertive school that translates the community's mandate…

This report contains the results of a survey of 1,156 Oregon school administrators intended to ascertain what causes them stress and how they cope with it. The first part of the report briefly reviews stress categories, indicating which general areas of administration prove to be the most bothersome. The second investigates specific sources of…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 14 summaries of documents and journal articles on the management team, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of this topic, such as…

This research into American social history examines educational institutions and educators of the 19th century. The central organization of the study is the American Institute of Instruction, founded in 1830 and surviving until 1908. This organization provided a medium for discussion and examination of significant educational experiments in the…

This report is described as a detailed account of the history and development of the Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC) Academic Achievement Plan (AAP), describing the process and events which lead to its failure. The AAP is described as a blueprint for a system of educational changes to be developed and implemented by the Board of…

Suburban school districts located immediately adjacent to large cities are now facing some of the same problems that larger urban centers have been facing for a long time. Although their problems are similar, there is little cooperation between urban and suburban districts. The critical areas blocking working relationships can be identified in…

Although ideally collective bargaining is a rational decision making process, in actuality, irrational forces frequently intrude, making a call for mediation a logical, necessary step. When communication breaks down between union and management, a mediator's objective assessment and recommendations become essential. For mediation to work, the…

Brief case studies are examined to show that change can be motivated by almost any part of the educational organization and that the degree of the change's success or failure depends to a large extent on the political environment existing within the school and the school district. Some recent examples in pertinent literature are examined, and some…

The purpose of this evaluation-research training program was to involve local program evaluators in training activities that would increase evaluation competencies for the consequent improvement of instructional programs at the local level. Superintendents and school board members met to discuss the roles of research and evaluation and their…

Six Atlanta, Georgia, school systems initiated a four-quarter school year program in 1968-69. An exploratory study was conducted to develop procedures and instruments for a comprehensive examination of the plan. Strong support exists in all groups interviewed -- superintendents and steering committee members, students, parents, teachers,…

This 1969-70 directory of public elementary and secondary schools provides the names of and basic information on local school systems in the United States and its possessions. In this directory, the listing includes all systems regardless of size, as well as nonoperating public school districts. The main body of the directory lists, in…

To determine where vocational education decisions are made in the administrative hierarchy of the school system and to measure the extent of agreement concerning the location of decision responsibility, superintendents, principals, and 204 vocational teachers in 22 Ohio secondary schools were interviewed using a decision analysis instrument…