This is an advance planning guide aimed at helping Chicago Public School principals carry out a school action plan, Academy for Effective Schools, in the 1984-85 school year. It suggest ways that schools can build on the school goals and practices established in previous plans. The terminology of the planning cycle is similar to that used in the…

The Office of Institutional Research's role in planning and operating an off-campus center for California State University (CSU), Hayward, is described. Although the center would promote enrollment of nontraditional students, the planning and operating decisions are applicable to other higher education activities. Needs assessment for the center…

The document presents Kentucky's 3-year plan for services to persons with mental retardation. The plan is the product of volunteers serving in an advisory role to the Kentucky Citizen's Planning Council and contains input from over 300 citizens from around the state. An initial section offers the Council's recommendations for improving services,…

This forum paper contains the perspectives of three adult education researchers (Jerold W. Apps, Daniele D. Flannery, and T. Tappey Turner) concerning the role of adult educators in the information age and the attitudes of adult educators toward the recent information explosion. In perspective 1, on the roles of the adult educator in the…

Reviewed is research on the bilingual child with learning problems. The author notes that a disproportionately large number of non-English speaking children are placed in special education classes for the educable mentally retarded, and that this group is underrepresented in classes for the learning disabled. It is suggested that appropriate tools…

Intended as a reference tool for developers of instructional materials for the deaf, the document presents statistical information on the characteristics of the hearing impaired market, and potential needs across various curricular areas. Chapters cover the following topics: introductory information, methodology used in surveys, instructions for…

Attempting to apply a sociological understanding of voluntary associations to the development of a practical model for rural community education, this paper is based on the assumptions that: there are a number of present-day educational needs which traditional systems of postsecondary education are not designed to meet; implications of this…

In 1974, the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) created the National Diffusion Network (NDN) in order to bring together representatives of federal, state, and local agencies to promote widespread adoptions of new and innovative programs within and across state boundaries. This goal is accomplished through use of State Facilitator (SF) and…

This chapter reports the responses from eight colleges and universities in the United Kingdom to an international questionnaire as part of a study to investigate the initiation and development of computer facilities in education. Data are presented under the headings: general development and scale of work, purposes of the project or unit, training…

This chapter reports the responses from 36 colleges and universities in the U.S.A. to an international questionnaire as part of a study to investigate the initiation and development of computer facilities in education. Data are presented under the headings: general development and scale of work, purposes of the project or unit, training of…

This chapter reports the responses from 11 colleges and universities in the Netherlands to an international questionnaire as part of a study to investigate the initiation and development of computer facilities in education. Data are presented under the headings: general development and scale of work, purposes of the project or unit, training of…

This chapter reports the responses from four universities in Canada to an international questionnaire as part of a study to investigate the initiation and development of computer facilities in education. Data are presented under the headings: general development and scale of work, purposes of the project or unit, training of non-specialists and…

This essay captures elements of the accumulated experiences of different teachers' centers and presents possible alternatives for efforts to establish new centers. Characteristics of a "typical" teachers' center are presented, according to origin, setting, facilities, program, governance, participation, and staff. Common differences…

One of the objectives of this study was to implement the school-community relations model of interaction to determine whether the specified patterns and processes were viable. Implementation began with a needs assessment, followed by an operational process involving four approaches: (1) a schoolwide focus on reporting pupil progress; (2) a…

This paper describes the systematic approach utilized in the development of a survey instrument for use in a community assessment survey. The purpose behind the development of the survey instrument was to enable the Office of Research and Development at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) to determine by means of telephone interviews the…