This manual was written in order to help community workers become more familiar with the litigation process as it affects bilingual education programs. Detailed descriptions of the participants in civil rights litigation, including bilingual-bicultural lawsuits, are provided. The roles that class members, clients, attorneys and educators play in…

Content analysis of job descriptions written for principals in 68 of New Mexico's 88 school districts led to identification of 1,650 specific duties. Of these, 1,416 dealt with administrative or managerial functions while only 234 defined educational leadership responsibilities. Such an analysis is limited in that it identifies formally stated…

Research evidence on the effects of schooling continues to demonstrate that schools with effective leadership produce more learning than other schools do. Today's instructional leader must possess skills in the four areas of curriculum development, clinical supervision, staff development, and teacher evaluation. Recent research also reveals a list…

A management plan is outlined for the development of an inservice teacher education program. Suggested roles and responsibilities of key personnel are discussed. Critical decisions and events in the planning process are pointed out, and a management blueprint is included. This revision of an earlier guide also contains a monograph on the generic…

Many New Yorkers have given up on the public schools and on the chance for reform. However, the school system's new chancellor, Frank Macchiarola, seems to have both the necessary commitment to change and the administrative skills. Interim evaluations have been made of his performance, with the following results: (1) Staff Performance--good work…

After a brief explanation of Project SAFE (Survey of Administrative Functional Efficiency) as a system designed to provide necessary feedback to school principals, the author lists the components of the project: (1) a confidential report to the principal summarizing the results of administering the SAFE instrument in the school, (2) a profile of…

The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the decision-making processes in senior high schools that were implementing programs of individualized schooling. Field methodology, including interviews, observations, and analysis of documents, was used to gather data in six senior high schools of varying size located throughout the country,…

Since public education must compete for public dollars with a range of other services, teachers must learn to present a good image and to create an environment in which their objectives and procedures are immediately obvious to parents, students, and school board members. A high priority for English department chairpersons, therefore, is to teach,…

EVIDENCE OF CONFLICT IS SEEN IN THE GROWING NUMBER OF FACULTY ORGANIZATIONS AND IN THEIR GROWTH OF ACTIVISM AND THEIR CHANGE IN EMPHASIS. IN THE TRANSITION OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE FROM A PUBLIC SCHOOL TO A HIGHER EDUCATION STATUS, SOME CONFLICT IS EXPECTED. ADMINISTRATOR-PERCEIVED STEREOTYPES OF FACULTY AND FACULTY-PERCEIVED STEREOTYPES OF…

BECAUSE UTAH REQUIRES LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO EMPLOY VOCATIONAL DIRECTORS, A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THEIR QUALIFICATIONS, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND DUTIES. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM PERSONNEL IN 37 OF THE 40 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN UTAH, 37 OF 50 STATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION DIRECTORS, 48 TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS IN THE NATION, THE U.S.…

THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF THE STUDY WERE--(1) TO DESCRIBE AND COMPARE TEACHERS' VIEWS AND THE TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR PRINCIPALS' VIEWS TOWARD VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS, SUPERVISED PRACTICE PROGRAMS, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION GENERALLY, AND (2) TO DETERMINE IF THERE IS A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHERS' ATTITUDES AND TEACHER ADOPTION OF A…

THE RESULTS OF A READING WORK CONFERENCE HELD IN DENVER, COLORADO, IN FEBRUARY 1966, TO DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING DIAGNOSTIC READING PROGRAMS, ARE PRESENTED. TOPICS DISCUSSED INCLUDE A DEFINITION OF READING, THE PROCESSES OF READING, THE ROLES OF THE TEACHER, READING CONSULTANT, AND PRINCIPAL, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE…

Most of the articles in this book evolved from papers presented during the Fourth Quadrennial International Intervisitation Program in Educational Administration held in Canada in 1978. Its purposes were to inform educational leaders from around the world about educational administration, organization, and policy in Canada and to provide a forum…

This document presents edited interviews with four former superintendents of instruction--Ewald Nyquist of New York, Jack Nix of Georgia, Dolores Colburg of Montana, and John Pittenger of Pennsylvania. Although the states in which these persons held their positions are quite different, there are a number of commonalities in the problems they…

In the many conferences, workshops, and panels for writing instructors the role of director of freshman English has been routinely ignored. The typical director does not even have a job description. But directors should interpret this lack of specifics to mean that they are not administrators set apart from faculty, but are engaged with faculty in…