This report presents a description of the Jackson, Michigan site of the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP), Head Start-affiliated program designed to promote community and family involvement in fostering optimum development of preschool children. The Jackson site is one of 11 demonstration sites of the national CFRP. The local program was…

This annual evaluation report for Fiscal Year 1975 of North Carolina Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act programs is organized into nine sections. These sections focus on, respectively: basic state statistics, state education agency Title I visits to local education agencies, changes in state educational agency Title I procedures, effects…

This report summarizes survey data on part-time faculty utilization in California community colleges. Data was received from 67 of the 69 community college districts. The primary purpose of the survey was to obtain information that would be useful to community college boards and administrators in dealing with part-time faculty legislation. Tables…

This brief overview of the growing alternative school movement emphasizes those features of alternative schools that are of most interest to school administrators. There is some discussion of different forms of alternative schools that have been tried, but attention is mainly focused on the general characteristics common to most alternative…

This book discusses possible approaches to initiating innovative educational programs and open education within the physical limitations of a traditional elementary school building. The authors stress their view that innovative education is more a product of innovative teachers and administrators than of building design. The book is aimed…

This paper makes suggestions for adapting training and staff utilization to organizational restructuring, and responsiveness to social needs. The ideal training format for organizational innovation would require selecting, assembling, protecting, and encouraging people, from both within and outside the institution, who are best equipped to…

This report summarizes the results of a 1967 survey designed to obtain a better understanding of the characteristics, duties, and opinions of the nation's elementary school principals. A questionnaire mailed to a national sample of 2,551 elementary school principals elicited a 91.7% response rate. These responses are described in 11 chapters…

This 1967 Annual State Summary Report of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I Projects describes Maryland's objectives for educating disadvantaged children. Projects were aimed at improving reading and language arts skills, test performance, verbal and nonverbal communication and strengthening the student's concept of himself and his…

During fiscal year 1971, the Oregon State Migrant Education Program, funded by the Title I Migrant Amendment, enrolled 6,099 students in grades K-12. Of these, 4,092 were enrolled in the regular school term and 2,007 were enrolled in summer programs. The Migrant Education Service Center expanded on its provision of diagnostic and prescriptive…

This paper outlines the history of paraprofessionals and reviews the reasons for their use. However, its main focus is on the specific ways in which these people are currently being used in the schools. The authors discuss the two major kinds of paraprofessionals -- service-oriented and instructional -- and analyze the various methods that have…

In conducting its study of the efficiency and economic policies of public elementary and secondary schools in Kansas, the Committee placed emphasis on (1) the optimum number of administrative personnel in the school districts compared with the number actually employed; (2) teacher assignments for classroom instruction and the extent of teachers'…

This collection of papers is based on projects done in conjunction with a senior level/graduate course, "Applications of Operations Research Techniques in Systems Engineering." These seven papers describe research studies which utilized user surveys and/or statistical methods to analyze various library operations. The papers are…

This pamphlet surveys the research and literature concerned with (1) differentiated staffing, (2) paraprofessional school personnel, (3) inservice education, (4) team teaching, (5) teacher selection, (6) interaction analysis, and (7) teacher certification. Extensive bibliographies are presented for each topic. Research for this review was funded…

The National Task Bank of 547 tasks in the public welfare field was developed from tasks written by eight states and by the Social and Rehabilitation Service. This document describes the background and development of the bank and outlines the procedures used. The task bank illustrates 13 functional cagegories of data, people, and things for…

This School Personnel Utilization battery is designed to help evaluate school staffing models (see TM 001 210). The battery itself contains three instruments. A Components Analysis instrument was devised to study the question of comprehensiveness. The second instrument, a Constraints Checklist, was developed to determine the extent to which the…