The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. The focus of the module is on a "planned change" process to implement career education programs. A significant amount of the module's content is oriented toward exposing the learner to various tools to be used in dealing…

According to the latest federal guidelines, all projects requesting funding must include the following program features: a systematic plan to eliminate existing sex bias and sex-role stereotyping and to avoid introducing these elements, a third-party objective evaluation of the program's learner benefits, and a strong emphasis on sex-fair…

Faced with the prospect of declining school enrollment, educational administrators must take stock of the situation and outline plans for improving the quality of education in a period of reduced enrollment and possibly reduced state aid to local school districts. Planning principles that can help administrators in this task include the following:…

This research study was undertaken in order to understand the dynamics of curriculum revision. The study examines reasons for change, persons involved in revision, frequency of revision, ways of evaluating a revised curriculum, and consistency of revision processes across school districts. Information was obtained through surveys distributed to…

Given that management can be defined as the activity that allocates and utilizes resources to achieve group or organizational goals, anyone who is in a position to assign and use a group's or organization's human or nonhuman resuources may benefit by making use of selected readings from this bibliography. The editor has divided the bibliography…

This publication updates a survey originally conducted in 1970 to determine the legal status of school principals in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. States were categorized in four groups on the basis of similarities in their laws relating to principals. Category A includes 15 states in which principals have attained at least…

Two concepts receiving increased emphasis in today's junior colleges are the use of current, research-based techniques of instruction and the instructional accountability of faculty members. One way to insure effective implementation of these concepts in the individual junior college--as envisioned by the Junior College Division of the Regional…

A school administrator is influenced by the roles and expectations of the school, the school district, and the clientele, as much as the school is influenced by his personal style as administrator. This notion necessitates a reexamination of the so-called administrative leadership tradition which presumes that the power, authority, and influence…

This is a report of two two-day institutes which were designed to encourage increased and more effective activity in school desegregation in the Southeastern region. Each participant received copies of desegregation guidelines and a set of publications for essential background information. Kickoff speakers focused attention on progress in…

This study sought mainly to determine the important functions and the preparational needs of directors of hospital education, to identify the most pertinent problems encountered by these directors in recent years, to propose educational recommendations, and to provide a pattern for improving existing preparational programs or developing new ones.…

School superintendents constrained by an administrative ideology that is obsolete face a dilemma in responding to the social and cultural changes currently taking place in American society. For the emergent role of the school superintendent to be consonant with societal change, four propositions are suggested: (1) Greater power and influence…

This guide to the development of line managers stresses the idea that the developmental process which any manager undergoes is the product of his own activity and should be treated as a continuous function. Major line functions, managerial attributes and characteristics, presupervisory selection, and preparation through trainee, temporary foremen,…

This paper attempts to help professionals and laymen who have responsibility for, or a vital interest in, improving the accountability of the public schools to better understand the participants and their roles in the operation of accountability programs. The report is designed to stimulate analysis and discussion of roles as they apply to…

Good public relations will result if the library concentrates on providing friendly and efficient service to its patrons. The director of the library has a key role to play, for he sets the tone and pattern for all the staff and personifies the library in the eyes of the community. The director should have imagination, enthusiasm, and leadership,…

Believing that society, including children, suffers from the underutilization of more than half the talents available to educational administration, an annual meeting was devoted to a workshop designed to present and provide study of the pertinent facts. Keynote addresses by Congresswoman Edith Green, Wayne O. Reed, Earl C. Funderburk, Dorothy…