The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program in Arkansas for 1971 is described in this annual report. During this year the 385 eligible public school districts spent in excess of $24 million on programs to meet the needs of educationally deprived children. Major changes in the statewide program included a change from dual segregated…

The 1st International Conference on Outdoor Education, 1972, was planned to provide a broad range of contacts and experiences for the delegates. Papers presented at this conference and reported in the Proceedings covered outdoor education for handicapped children and native children, residential programs, government role in outdoor education,…

A year-long research project was conducted concerning chartering as a potential management and communications tool in vocational-occupational education. Chartering is defined as a management tool which allows two individuals in the same or related organizations, sharing different levels of the same mission, to achieve an understanding of each…

The purpose of this study was to determine what effect a teacher in-service program in reading study skills had on teacher achievement, teacher attitude, and the relationship between pupil achievement and the in-service treatment experiences of their respective teachers of reading and social studies. Sixteen teachers and their sixteen classrooms…

This report discusses new staff development techniques -- interaction analysis, microteaching, and clinical supervision -- and describes new technology such as video recorders. Approaching these new techniques descriptively rather than prescriptively, the author discusses the programs of two regional laboratories -- the Far West Laboratory and the…

The competency concept related to performance has recently been gaining a place in the professional literature, but its application to the specific field of educational administration has been limited. Several universities have moved towards competency performance-based administrator preparation programs, and the interest shown by the profession…

This leader's handbook accompanies a series of booklets designed to simulate the problems that teachers, superivsors, administrators, and board officials at various levels of a typical education system might encounter in real life. Presented in the form of in-basket items -- letters, memos, phone messages, etc. -- the simulation exercises require…

An empirical study was made on treatment atmosphere and shifts in interpersonal behavior in a military correctional treatment setting. The program studied was a small rehabilitation unit housing 100 to 140 enlisted men convicted by special or general court martial of various offenses ranging from AWOL to manslaughter. The objective of the unit was…

The purpose of this study was to compare attitudes of secondary school teachers in 28 Ohio counties (considered by the Appalachian Regional Commission to be a part of Appalachia) with those of teachers in the remaining 60 counties. A questionnaire of 122 items, 94 of which were attitudinal, was used with a random sample of 600 teachers, 300 each…

This collection of articles on the legal aspects of the selection and retention of faculty is intended for department or division chairmen, described as first-level management, in community colleges. The four articles are: (1) "The Changing Role of Division/Department Chairmen: Pivotal for the Community College" by Louis W. Bender; (2) "A Legal…

The major thesis of this paper is that it is necessary for those people concerned with rural education and small schools to accept 3 challenges--to take full advantage of available rural opportunities, to realize limitations of rural life, and to be aware of responsibilities not only to Rural America but also to an America where there are no…

Some aspects of a grass roots evaluation training program are presented. The program consists of two elements: (1) a series of 11 slide/tape individualized self-paced units, and (2) a six-week summer program. Three points of view on this program are: (1) University graduate programs in quantitative areas are usually consumed by specialists; (2)…

The author sketches some of the characteristics and trends in programs for the preparation and continuing education of educational administrators. He claims that one of the most pervasive changes in the last decade or two has been toward theory-based content drawn from the social and behavioral sciences. The author sees three paradoxes in current…

To develop a coordinated and systematized program of curricular design, a steering committee met with the vocational directors of several large cities, conducted extensive literature reviews, visited several institutions involved in research and teaching activities, and made contacts with personnel in various Federal agencies. In the area of…

Designed as one of 10 institutes for the inservice training of professional personnel responsible for vocational-technical education in western metropolitan areas, the major focus of this institute was to promote optimal opportunities to develop awareness of the value of coordination in expanding the potential of vocational educatio in…