This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report containing proposals for the organization of secondary schools, the establishment of school councils, the maintenance of peaceful working conditions and the provision of legal security. Secondary schools should have an internal organization for dealing with…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1500 words) summarizing a report presented to the Eighth National Plenary Assembly of the National Technical Council for Education by the Mexican Academy of Education, a private association of teachers. It recommended the adoption of four basic educational administrative reforms by the…

Written for the new teacher and for the experienced teacher wishing to engage in a new form of organizing, integrating, and opening up the classroom, this book details the structure behind the scenes of the "open classroom." The first two chapters consider the need for organization and the organization of the classroom. A third chapter discusses…

This paper presents a model of planning implementation that makes use of the concept that for successful planning, the organization must be changed at the same time people are changed. A 10-step sequence of activities to insure that planning increases organizational effectiveness is presented, along with some typical implementation problems.…

TWO TYPES OF INCENTIVE SYSTEMS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SKILL MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES OF THE PROFESSIONAL WORK-FORCE AT TWO JUNIOR COLLEGES WERE REPORTED. ONE OF THE INSTITUTIONS HAD A MERIT-TYPE INCENTIVE SYSTEM, WHILE THE OTHER DID NOT DIFFERENTIATE AMONG THE VARIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS OF ITS FACULTY. THE LATTER BASED COMPENSATION ON ACADEMIC PREPARATION…

In recent decades, new pressures have been placed on library management, including inflation, the proliferation of published materials, diversification in the demand for library services, and changing library staff expectations. Management approaches to these fundamental issues can be grouped into the following general categories: (1) management…

The purpose of this study was to learn about some of the substantive differences between Head Start and day care programs by identifying Head Start programs that had initiated day care services and then comparing similarities and differences before and after transition. The research strategy involved two phases: (1) identifying the national trend…

This lengthy report evaluates a new staffing plan that was implemented by the Eugene (Oregon) School District during the 1975-76 school year. The purpose of the report is to determine the impact of the new staffing plan on the staff size and programs of each district school. The first section of the report presents a brief history of the new…

The managerial problems encountered in the merging of two schools of education are discussed. (JD)

If schools respond to the challenge of declining enrollments with a clear and expanded sense of purpose, encompassing the concept of adult and lifelong learning, they may find opportunities which will ensure continuous renewal. (Author/SJL)

Discusses personnel profession's increased responsibilities which are due to (1) consolidation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (2) labor law reform, (3) privacy legislation, (4) social security legislation, (5) open retirement, (6) medical plan costs, (7) codetermination, (8) labor scarcity, (9) top management compensation, and…

This article presents models of the school as an organization, and of consultation suited to such an organization. A program of consultation to an inner-city, junior high school faculty based on these two models is described and evaluated. (Author/CTM)

Lower-middle-level managers participated in workshops in which democratization of the learning process itself was essential to the discovery of the features of adaptive human organization. This led to changing working arrangements from individual-task relationships to that of a group of employees responsible for a set of tasks. (Author/MLF)

In response to a growing need to involve faculty to a greater degree in its activities and policies, the College Board created the Council on Academic Affairs. The Council's charges, concerns, and challenges are described. (Author/LBH)

This research studied selected aspects of the Young Teacher Inventory, a 100-item instrument, which purportedly discriminates between teachers with strong and weak predispositions to participate in planning of change. One hundred items were crossvalidated against three samples of 100 subjects from among the teachers of the Danville, Illinois,…