Written to help migrant parents with day-to-day concerns about their children and their children's schooling, this handbook provides a variety of reference information. A definition of migrant education services is followed by a directory of individuals responsible for migrant education in Delaware at state and local levels. Telephone numbers are…

A fairness committee consists of a group of about 15 people, usually students, teachers, and administrators, who are either volunteers or are elected. This committee tries to improve the overall school climate by improving the quality of relationships between students, teachers, and administrators. It offers a neutral place for individuals to…

In 1983, Santa Monica College (SMC) created a task force to assess the college's need for child care services and to devise possible service models for consideration. Subcommittees were formed to address student and staff child care needs; ways of funding child care services; criteria for possible child care facilities and sites which met these…

Arranged in four sections, the book offers practical techniques for introducing environmental education at the primary level. The first section, on planning, outlines a conceptual framework for environmental education, describes how the staff at one primary school developed a K-7 curriculum, examines an in-service course on environmental science…

Dropout prevention is emerging as the most important new issue in education. Broad demographic trends predict a continuing growth in the population of at-risk youth, those most likely to drop out of school. The overall goal of any dropout prevention activity is to reduce the number of at-risk students. This issue is devoted to what research and…

Using a microanalytic case study approach, school effectiveness/school improvement strategies in a Northeastern urban public school district are examined. Recent research findings have indicated inconclusive and, at times, negative results related to the implementation of such strategies. The 202,469 students enrolled in 257 schools within the…

The National School Boards Association proposed to the United States Department of Education a project, "Building Character in the Public Schools," designed to enhance character development in the schools through involvement of more than 15,000 local school boards in this country. The project had two overall goals: to heighten national awareness…

A kit for parents and citizens' action groups who want to check up on Title IX progress in their local schools and to press for needed changes, gives information about the laws, detailed guidelines for finding the necessary information, strategies for change, and an annotated bibliography. Step-by-step instructions of how to review schools are…

THIS REPORT (THE BUNDY REPORT) PROPOSES A PLAN FOR THE DECENTRALIZATION OF THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM WHICH WOULD ALLOW FOR GREATER COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOL POLICY-MAKING AND FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FLEXIBILITY. TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS THE REPORT RECOMMENDS THAT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM BE REORGANIZED INTO A FEDERATION OF…

Students, parents, and school authorities are provided information about various laws and regulations pertaining to public school students in this handbook. Fundamental rights and responsibilities of students, including those described in right to education laws and judicial decisions, are discussed. Discipline policies, continuation schools,…

It was concluded, in an empirical study of distributions of examination scores within secondary schools in Karachi, Pakistan, that intraschool inequalities in student achievement were relatively large; that variables for socioeconomic background and school policy did not explain the intraschool variations across schools; and that a school which…

The authors of this collection of essays make the major points that parental participation influences student performance, and that time spent with parents by school personnel results in better learning. Ira J. Gordon explains four models of parent-school-community relationships and cites research evidence of long-term effects of parent…

A survey of 156 institutions using television and other educational media was conducted to determine the extent and nature of contracts or specific policies defining the rights and responsibilities of teachers using educational media. The survey aimed at both discovering present trends in policies and practices and forming a compendium of…

Although schools have increased influence over the social-psychological development of youth, they do not provide diversity in nonacademic domains. In addition, the apparent diversity among institutions is of little value because institutions are not located or administered in such a way that individuals can choose freely between them.…

Designed to assist administrators, teachers, and counselors with the development, implementation, and administration of a student internship program, this administrative handbook begins with a program description of an internship program in Montgomery County, Maryland, in which students are released from school for part of the day or part of the…