Six critical areas of community college organization and management are addressed in a direct and practical fashion. John W. Lee offers strategies for coping with the paradoxical decline in the quality of learning and the associated increase in instructional productivity. The translation of traditional intraorganizational into interorganizational…

This report is a study of the science curriculum implementation policy of the National Science Foundation (NSF) with particular reference to "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS). It includes the majority opinion of the ad hoc research group conducting the study and the minority opinion of one dissenting member. The majority views recommend…

In this report the Comptroller General of the General Accounting Office (GAO) examines National Science Foundation (NSF) policies, procedures, and practices for developing, evaluating, and implementing precollege science education projects and their specific applications to "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS). The topics investigated…

The report begins with a brief examination of the role of computer modeling in management decision-making. Then, some of the difficulties of implementing computer modeling are examined, and finally, the educational implications of these issues are raised, and a comparison is made between what is currently being done and what might be done to…

A detailed account of the establishment of an educational program at Marin County Jail, along with background information, is provided in the document. A discussion of inmate educational programs throughout the country examines inmate needs, facilities, staffing, and funding. Marin County school system interaction with penal institutions, its law…

Nebraska Adult Basic Education (ABE) program administrators have been studied in terms of their general characteristics and part-or full-time positions in an attempt to gather data to assist in future program development, administrator recruitment, and administrator training programs. A questionnaire was sent to all known administrators in the…

Part I of this document discusses the political controversies in which Harvard University has been embroiled, exploring past and present sources of conflict among the various estates of the university--that is, students, faculty, administrators, and governing boards--as well as the tensions between the university and external authorities.…

This practicum evaluates the institutional committee structure at Fresno City College (FCC), compares it to other or alternative structures at community colleges in California and New Jersey, and reports the attitudes and perceptions of faculty, administration, staff, and students about the effectiveness of the institutional committee structure as…

Community college enrollments have greatly increased in recent years, yet organizational structures have remained the same. The incompatibility of present size with old organizational structures has made it difficult to maintain any semblance of an intimate learning community. The cluster college is proposed as a possible alternative that would…

The Canadian Department of Education developed this manual to provide teachers and administrators with information about the potential use of computers. Part I describes at length the five components of the computer input, output, storage, control, and arithmetic/logic functions) and gives a discussion of computer languages, programing, batch…

A summary of requirements and provisions of early childhood and basic skills programs and a framework for and the requisites of thorough and systematic planning which can be held accountable for what the student learns are provided in this document. A plan that clearly establishes criteria for what needs to be done and why, the actual planning…

The report identifies the entrepreneurial needs of minority small businessmen in Arizona's Maricopa County and selected Indian reservations, the entrepreneurial aids available from public and private organizations, and implications for future planning by the State Department of Education. Data were gathered from surveys of organizations and…

Business and management study programs are making increasing but still limited use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) as an instructional tool. The cost of course development and design for business and management instruction is high, but declining hardware costs and increasing use will lower per student hour costs. CAI is now used primarily…

A centralized evaluation unit within the California State Department of Education is responsible for evaluating programs administered by the state. Focusing on these educational program evaluations, the principal objectives of this study were to: (1) Describe the major components of the current program evaluation system; (2) Examine the planning…

Using the example of a Career Education Model developed by the Orange County, California Consortium, the document provides guidelines for setting up career education programs in local educational agencies. Component levels, a definition of career education, and Consortium program background are discussed. Subsequent chapters include: Program…