The primary intention of this study was to answer the question: are METCO students getting a good education? The study had as its purpose recording the opinions of METCO parents and school administrators in suburban communities with METCO students as to whether or not these schools were providing METCO students with the opportunity and resources…

One of a series of manuals developed by the Education Development Center's Home and Community-Based Career Education Project, the report describes the career and counseling component of the project. The core of the project is career counseling by telephone, provided by trained paraprofessionals. It was found that paraprofessionals can deliver…

This annotated bibliography lists 100 selected educational materials from Pakistan covering the period October through September 1974. The materials are drawn from a variety of Pakistani journals, newspapers, and government publications. The entries are organized into 21 categories: Administration, Organization, and Financing of Education;…

The document contains a comprehensive historical review of the field of driver education, now called driver and traffic safety education, which has been taught in the public schools for more than 30 years. The first of eight chapters traces the early history of safety education from colonial times through the 1940's, including the beginnings of…

This is not a lawbook, but rather an indepth discussion of specific areas of concern to Oklahoma educators. It is composed of information based on the author's experience as Chief Counsel for the Oklahoma State School Boards Association and for the Oklahoma Association of School Administrators as well as on case law, legal opinions, statutes, and…

The general theme of this conference report relates to the concerns and interests of students and how those concerns and interests are perceived and assessed by others. Topics discussed are: (1) the role of the Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada (AAUC) to keep its member institutions aware of what is taking place across the land,…

An institute was designed to train 14 American Indians in basic library and audiovisual skills so that they could function as paraprofessional librarians in the pueblos and reservations of western New Mexico. The institute, funded under the 1965 Higher Education Act Title II-B, was based at the University of New Mexico, although most of the…

Discussed is a total systems approach to the problems of personnel policies and practices in higher education administration. It is noted that of the three basic management functions--planning, budget, and personnel--the personnel function has been the slowest to adapt to the process of rapid change. Adoption of a new philosophy is needed that…

We are better prepared today to deal with the problems in library administration, because we not only have the basic work of management theorists, but also staffs who are better educated and more interested in participation. During the last 25 years, there have been two strands in library administration. The older, human relations approach allowed…

This report from the first Computer Users Conference is organized around the four panel discussion topics: data collection, data preparation and presentation, data base management, and overall management of hardware, software, people and data. On each panel were two industrial data processing experts who presented papers for discussion. These…

This document is the fourth in a series of 12 early childhood program descriptions compiled by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. The program described here is the Responsive Program developed by Glen Nimnicht at the Far West Lab in Berkeley, California. The Responsive Model is a preschool through third grade program…

The document, developed by a task force of Wyoming educators in the field of cooperative occupational education (COE), offers suggestions for the development of management systems and policies for the improvement and implementation of COE programs in Wyoming. Following a brief description of the philosophy and objectives of COE, the document…

A dynamically exploding world demands new modes of educational leadership. New definitions of leadership are focusing on humanistically oriented, affectively concerned, relational, caring kinds of persons. The basic focus of CFK Ltd. has been on improving schools by improving the leadership behavior of school administrators. The relational concept…

This handbook on school finance is prepared to give the taxpayers of the state of Washington an overview of the financing and organization of the public schools, grades K-12. An attempt has been made to show in general terms where the revenues to support this segment of public education come from, how they are distributed to individual school…

In addition to the external pressures for a change in the school year, there are also pressures within the field of education that year-round schools may alleviate. In the 1960's, Prince William County faced the serious problem of rapid population growth, and today the school population continues to increase. In 1970, after considering alternative…