This report documents the successful coordination of two agencies, the Teacher Corps of the Office of Education (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (Department of Justice), in the establishment of a joint program, the School…

THE BASIC PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE--(1) TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER OR NOT SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION IS WORTHWHILE IN TERMS OF TIME, EFFORT, AND EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS, AND (2) TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATIONS ON THE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF THE SCHOOL. THE SAMPLING CONSISTED OF 10 WISCONSIN COMMUNITIES--5 WITH…

BECAUSE OF GROUNDWORK ACCOMPLISHED IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PROJECT FOR IMPROVEMENT IN LEARNING AND OTHER COMPLEMENTARY FACTORS, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF UNIVERSITY CITY, MISSOURI, BELIEVES IT IS IN THE UNIQUE POSITION OF BEING ABLE TO COMPLETELY REVAMP ITS EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURE, RATHER THAN RENOVATING PIECEMEAL THE EXISTING FRAMEWORK, AS IS COMMONLY…

THE PROPOSAL CALLS FOR AN EXTENSIVE REORGANIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AND THE PHYSICAL FACILITIES OF THE SCHOOL OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, IN ORDER TO UP-DATE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF DE FACTO SEGREGATION BROUGHT ABOUT BY RESIDENTIAL HOUSING PATTERNS. A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE EDUCATIONAL FUTURE OF NEW ROCHELLE IS…

This book was written for educators involved in planning educational improvements. Each of the chapters provides a framework for understanding various factors affecting efforts to implement change, for example, how change can be planned and managed effectively, how people can be motivated successfully, how to improve management styles and…

This document contains summaries of and a synthesis of the commentary on papers presented at the Conference on the Frontier in School Leadership. The authors and their papers are (1) John I. Goodlad, "Middle Management in Educational Change: Hope or Despair?" (2) Egon G. Guba, "Missing Roles in School Leadership: Matters Tended and Untended," (3)…

The conferences were part of a series to review the whole field of postsecondary education policy in Britain in terms of changes in objectives, government processes, resources, and students. Papers on vocational education include: the present problems and position relating to vocational education (H.W. French); Technical Education Council progress…

Societal norms and values have changed so drastically during the last decade that educational institutions are being forced to respond and react to intense pressures both from inside and outside their own organizational structure. A forward looking institutional planning function requires that organizational forms and modes be arranged to…

Rather than a direct report on staff development programs, the speaker presents a case study of a district's experiences in organization change that were planned to improve the ways in which the school system fulfills its basic mission and goals. The change plan emphasized staff development at the administrative level as a means of decreasing the…

In considering possible combinations of public and school library services, thought must be given to the varying roles of the two kinds of libraries, the location of facilities, the collection and circulation of materials, hours of services, qualifications of staff, system services, and community involvement. Some school-housed public libraries…

This report describes the development of the Compressed Survey Feedback Technique and its use to organize a College Discovery and Development (CDD) Conference. Survey feedback consists mainly of obtaining from members of an organization their opinions about the organization and then giving summaries of these opinions to various groups within the…

A questionnaire survey, conducted among the professional staff of the Kansas State Department of Education, identified need studies that had been previously undertaken in conjunction with department activities, and solicited staff opinions concerning educational needs. The staff reported that 25 need studies had been conducted; the staff…

New opportunities can be achieved only with the support of appropriate curricula. To explore the special needs of Negro students, in terms of both curriculum and services, and to produce this report--intended as "a definitive publication for the use of institutions enrolling significant numbers of Negro students"--a summer workshop was held at…

This book represent s a personal statement of the authors' evolving experience as collaborators in the work of developing organizations. Focus is on three critical interfaces: the organization-environment, the group-group, and the individual organization. Close attention is paid to the attainment both of organizational goals and of individual…

Schools are essentially human systems; without people they are nothing but wood, concrete, and paper. Yet, the people who make up schools -- professionals, parents, service personnel, and students -- often form into ineffective and poorly coordinated groups, much in the way that employees in the bureaucracies of industry and government become…