An inservice teacher education model that incorporates theory, observation, practice, and the techniques of coaching helps teachers apply language acquisition research and theory to classroom situations. (DF)

Effective inservice programs are necessary to ensure that current reforms in education are properly implemented. Inservice programs must meet the needs of both the educational system and educators. Six basic policy assumptions dealing with what is needed in inservice education are discussed. (DF)

Based on a questionnaire survey of 38 elementary-secondary and postsecondary lobbyists and 22 legislators conducted by the authors in Minnesota in 1978-80, this article examines the effectiveness of two fundamental lobbying strategies--cooperative strategy and advocacy strategy--in educational lobbyists' efforts to influence legislators. (JBM)

This investigation of the missing link between educators' demands for planning tools and successful implementation of such tools once they became available identified the link as users' attitudes toward a proposed system approach model for the identification, design, delivery, evaluation, and renewal of purposeful change. (MBR)

Findings of study based on cognitive orientation theory show that (1) experimental training can change belief clusters orienting children to impulsive bahaviors and (2) such behaviors will change if the belief clusters change. (CMG)

Power, force, influence, and authority are motivational controls used by teachers to cause behavior changes in students. Examples of how these controls are used in educational settings are explored in this article. The use of authority is recommended as the control that effects the most meaningful behavior change. (DF)

Describes strategies used over a four-year period to reduce teacher absenteeism. These include notifying school board of absentee rates, tying attendance to teacher evaluation, requiring administrative approval for personal leave near weekends, and a cash bonus for good attendance. (TE)

Educational administrators facing change are offered some observations of business management, including an analysis of characteristic responses to change from rich to poor environments, a catalog of managerial styles likely to be discouraged or rewarded in present economic conditions, and recommended practices for managing contraction, especially…

The present case study describes a toilet training program planned, developed, and implemented within a sheltered workshop. The client was a severely retarded woman for whom incontinence had been a life-long problem. The ease with which the program was carried out recommends its use with similar client problems. (Author)

Defines some dimensions of poverty, determines the scope and consequences of poverty in an affluent society to its black youths, reviews the existing strategies to combat poverty, examines a number of the major characteristics of poverty (as different from poverty in less affluent societies) and suggests other ways and means of alleviating and…

In the development of the Bicentennial celebration as it relates to blacks in urban centers, this paper focuses on three salient areas: survival of urban centers; strategies for urban survival; and prospects for the future. (Author/AM)

Nutrition educators must find ways to get sound nutrition information to the public through means such as: nutrition education for physicians, the nation's formal education system, public media and work with social and civic groups, and emphasis on world population planning and control of food production and waste. (MS)

The bureaucratic structures in which many clinicians work are often obstacles to effective services. The author suggests that the clinician would benefit the organization and its clients--as well as his own position--if he would learn certain tactics for tinkering with organizational structures, rules, and policies. (Author)

Trustees find themselves in the middle of an ongoing battle over accountability and autonomy. Government officials accuse the academy of being more interested in autonomy than accountability--more interested in demanding financial support than in serving public priorities. Business leaders question the responsiveness of colleges and universities…

Colleges and universities spend ample time developing strategic plans. The process often involves every constituency on campus, from faculty to staff to students, who attend endless meetings and discuss in detail every goal, objective, and strategy. In the end, the plan is "approved" or "adopted" by the board of trustees. But…