The document provides data gathered from 1,379 questionnaire responses of 1,428 Head Start programs on the status of handicapped children as of March 15, 1976. A brief summary of data findings (such as that 95% of Head Start programs serve at least one handicapped child, and that 45 states met the mandate to provide handicapped children with at…

Designed to be a source of programming information, this document summarizes the educational efforts by Wisconsin's sixteen Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) districts to help meet consumer and homemaking education needs of disadvantaged groups. The project supported by each district is described in the following format: project…

Designed to help public and private agencies organize a successful volunteer program, this guide begins with a discussion of the development of successful management techniques for use in the planning, implementation, and operation of volunteer services. Elements of structuring volunteer objectives, developing agency rationale for volunteer…

If education is to keep up with social and technological change, teachers must be learning and developing at a rate similar to that of students, requiring the educational staff to render highly diverse and wide-ranging services. The basic strategy essential to such services is the development of differentiated staffing patterns which will allow…

AN INTEGRATED FEEDBACK SYSTEM DESIGNED TO ENABLE STUDENT TEACHERS TO ANALYZE THEIR TEACHING, SET GOALS FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND MONITOR THEIR OWN PROGRESS WAS INSTITUTED IN THE TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. ELEMENTS OF THE FEEDBACK SYSTEM INCLUDED THE USE OF A SYSTEM FOR BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS OF TEACHING AND THE USE OF FILMS AND AUDIO AND…

The Career Opportunities Program (COP) is directed to the educational needs of low income families. The study of COP-trained aides describes the impact of the most effective teams of teachers and aides and social workers and aides on: the learning-teaching process; the delivery of school social work services; the pupils; communication between the…

The purpose of this study is to collect, analyze, and report on statistics and program information relative to selected aspects of the overall budget and program of selected large city school systems. Furthermore, the intent is to isolate areas of variation in what is seemingly common operation and by means of adjustment, whether it be in the form…

This publication is a compilation of 12 essays that originally appeared in issues of the American Association of School Administrators' journal, "The School Administrator," beginning in September 1971. Each essay focuses on a different set of educational issues and is intended to provide a thoughtful basis for study and understanding of current…

The School Personnel Utilization Project developed a series of modules to assist personnel in building the necessary skills for the development of organizational change strategies and collaborative, collegial educational problem solving capabilities. This specific module focuses on approaches to the enhancement of communication patterns within…

A demonstration study was initiated under the auspices of the Department of Education, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and designed to determine the interactive roles that can be undertaken by college, students in teacher training, the public school, and the community. To test the hypothesis that saturation field work would…

Five appendixes make up this part of the final report on the elementary teacher education program. Appendix L is a summary chart of the orientation meetings, giving dates, locations, and participants. Appendix M is a listing of the seven school districts actively participating in the OCE coalition, with a brief description of their essential…

This detailed study examines the short- and long-range facility needs of Dayton City School District. Extensive tables illustrate study findings; descriptions of individual schools and their facility needs are appended. (LLR)

The mission of the simulation team of the Model Elementary Teacher Education Project, 1968-71, was to develop simulation tools and conduct appropriate studies of the anticipated operation of that project. The team focused on the experiences of individual students and on the resources necessary for these experiences to be reasonable. This report…

This document presents comparative data concerning staff utilization under educational systems operated by the State as opposed to those operated by school districts. The study reported here used as its samples the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia and the Australian States of Queensland and Victoria. Specifically, the study was…

The purpose of this research was to study the link between effective management strategies and the impact of educational research and development. The 19 R & D Centers and Regional Laboratories of the United States Office of Education were selected as the focal organizations for analysis. Using document analysis and interviews, the researchers…