This publication examines the new Oregon competency-based high school graduation requirements that became effective in the fall of 1976, delineates some of the pros and cons of the requirements, assesses the early experience with the requirements, and speculates about the requirements' eventual impact. In addition, a major section of the booklet…

Providing current information on the status of the School Management Options Project (involvement by the end of Fiscal Year 1975 of at least one-fourth of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, BIA, schools in a management system chosen by their American Indian clients), this report presents information relative to the BIA's overall strategy for project…

This unit reviews educational theory and its relationships to educational practice. Its purpose is not to survey various theories of planned educational change since there is an extensive body of literature dealing with this topic. Theory, as presented in this unit, is tied closely to strategies that can guide leaders in planning and conducting…

This report investigates the concept of individualized education both from a descriptive view of its general features and purposes and from an analytical view of specific components in such systems, identifying the component steps necessary for planning and implementing individualization. Chapter one deals with the importance of individualized…

This article presents a case study which illustrates how one counselor used the school, the home, and the referral agency in order to develop a plan of action for helping a student. (Author)

Highly anxious self-referred snake phobics received either (a) therapist-administered desensitization, (b) self-administered desensitization with weekly therapist phone calls, (c) totally self-administered desensitization, (d) self-administered double-blind placebo control, or (e) no treatment. Pretreatment to posttreatment measures revealed…

Combined efforts of school staff, community leaders, parents and students have allowed Detroit's Desegregation Plan not only to be implemented peacefully, but also to become the springboard for systematically improving the quality of the Detroit public schools. (Author/WI)

The old empirical-rational and power-coercive system of policy development and implementation is inappropriate in our pluralistic environment. The problem-solving strategy combines rationality, involvement, flexibility, and decentralization. It has new implications for administrators' roles. (Author/SJL)

Considers external factors that hamper reading program effectiveness. Suggests that reading teachers learn about the groups with whom they work--fellow teachers, community, administrators--and become innovative change agents to ensure that the reading program is successful. (RL)

Drug programs are changing from legalistic, pharmacological, factual presentations to humanistic, experimentally based inquiry formats. The study reported here describes a humanistic/inquiry approach field tested in a middle school and demonstrating the success of curricula providing for decision making, self-concept enhancement, and interpersonal…

In this paper, problems with testing as a method of educational evaluation are discussed and suggestions are made to schools with respect to strategies for more effective evaluation procedures. Various evaluation processes, their uses, and their limitations, are described. (WI)

A secondary analysis of the Rand Change Agent Study describes four broad factors underlying the understanding of staff development: institutional motivation, implementation strategies, institutional leadership, and teacher characteristics. These factors are used to suggest specific staff development activities. (JMF)

Discusses the Society for Education in Film and Television in Britain in relation to current and projected reforms in the examination system. While curriculum and examinations are becoming controlled by the state, the space for oppositional work within the state education system is diminishing. Presents some strategies for change. (JMF)

Contends that the lack of reorganization to a new environment creates problems in open space classrooms. Adminstrators, parents, and faculty must be involved in preparation for this change from a traditional setting. (KC)

The author discusses the thought and behavior of educators faced with the growing gap between scientific rationality (application of linear procedures, cause-effect relationships, and other simplistic systems) and control of the schools, in the one hand, and the growing body of knowledge about the social reality of schools which eschews such…