These appendices include the data upon which "Citizen Organizations: A Study of Citizen Participation in Educational Decisionmaking--Final Research Report" (UD 019 754) was based. Data are provided on the variables which shaped the character and role of community organizations concerned with the school systems and school policies of…

THIS ARTICLE REPORTS ON THE STATUS OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROGRAM TO ADMIT "HIGH RISK" DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM 159 PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS, 84 OF WHICH REPORTED SOME INVOLVEMENT IN PROGRAMS FOR HIGH RISK STUDENTS. DISCUSSED ARE SUCH ISSUES AS THE EXTENT OF THE COLLEGES' COMMITMENT, THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE…

The Upper Peninsula Multi-District Planning Project was designed to provide analysis of large quantities of data postulated to have some bearing on student achievement and educational programs. It provided a means by which educational progress in Michigan's upper peninsula could be assessed. A brief history of the project is followed by a…

A survey was conducted to discover the attitudes of parents with children enrolled in District 162 schools in Illinois. The purposes of the study were: (1) to obtain parental assessment of the school system as a whole and particular school policy, programs, and procedures; and (2) to gauge the extent of parent knowledge and approval of the…

Intended to aid in the implementation of Public Law 93-380 (Education Amendments of 1974) and Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act), the manual provides guidelines for South Carolina hearing officers when parents of handicapped children and local education agencies disagree about evaluation, placement, changes in…

The Iowa State Department of Public Instruction has developed an instructional materials selection policy and procedures to help achieve appropriate assignment of selection responsibility and quality selection while guarding against unwarranted censorship of materials. The model emphasized the ongoing nature of media selection, involving…

School district policies concerning student records in Pennsylvania must be in conformity with these guidelines. The guidelines were established and adopted to ensure that the student's right to privacy is not invaded when the information is gathered or released; to determine which officials can have access to a student's file and how much of the…

This study was undertaken to identify, classify, and interpret extant written school health policies. Furthermore, it was planned to ascertain whether schools were using standardized forms or systematic procedures to formulate school health policies. Administrators in school districts representing every geographical area of the U.S. were asked to…

This survey sought information regarding the policies of school districts across the nation on entrance requirements to kindergarten and the first grade. The school systems were classified under four strata according to total enrollment size. The most frequently reported minimum entrance age for kindergarten was 5 years of age by December 1. For…

This report examines student activity scheduling procedures in the nation's high schools and investigates the prevalence of student activity directors assigned to these schools. In addition, it provides 11 sample job descriptions for student activity directors as submitted by responding school systems. The data reported in the document are based…

A statistical analysis of data on Michigan, New York City, New York State, and Project Talent schools found evidence of schools that consistently produce outstanding students even after allowance is made for the different initial endowments of their students and for chance variation. Methodologically, like many previous studies, this report uses…

This research examined educational inequalities for Mexican Americans in the Southwest. A questionnaire survey was conducted in 1972 on a sample of 636 superintendents in the public school systems in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. The study was designed as a follow-up to a 1969 Civil Rights Commission survey of 538…

This paper traces the evolution of student rights and the judicial protection of these rights through numerous court cases. The author outlines the minimum standards of due process required in disciplinary proceedings and discusses cases that point up (1) the required specificity of rules on student conduct, (2) the requirements of notice to…

An examination of rules and regulations of five schools within a 15-mile radius in Cook County, Illinois, illustrates the diverse nature of behavior problems in schools. Overcrowding, race, poverty, and drugs are suggested by social scientists to be among the causes for disruptions within school systems. The schools in this study include an…

Noting that each school tends to define integration in its own terms, this study attempts to contribute to a typology of school integration by describing the definition of integration at one particular school, and then attempting to construct a balanced definition of integration, based on observation and interpreted within a broader conceptual…