This speech gives a brief picture of the characteristics and components of a program to change and improve administration in educational organizations. This program affects adinistrative change by providing participants with specific training for their change agent roles and by concentrating on the school system from which the participants come --…

This booklet is designed to give practical and realistic advice to school district officials faced with the possibility of a teachers' strike. It is intended for use both by school district administrators and school board members. The booklet is organized into four sections that focus in turn on signs of a pending teachers' strike, union…

The information contained in this report represents the major findings of a survey of some 229 areas of current practice in Wisconsin high schools. The survey instrument was completed by 69 percent of the members of the Wisconsin Secondary School Administrators Association who serve in senior high schools. Topics contained in the report include…

This handbook, made possible through a Title V grant from the Connecticut State Department of Education, contains job descriptions for teachers and principals and evaluation instruments which serve as initial exemplary models for the school systems throughout Connecticut seeking to improve their staff evaluation programs. Part I contains a section…

A new dean describes his use of proficiency tests to assess the educational status of entering students and to initiate changes in the instructional program in English as a second language. (MSE)

Address to a convention of secondary school principals analyzes the effect of successful communication between principals and faculty, stresses the need to make English teaching relevant to the community, especially by teaching moral values, and calls for a reduction of class size for English teachers. (JG)

The description of the day of a hypothetical college president and his intense use of microcomputers illustrates how the use of this technology may become integrated into administrative style and efficiency. (MSE)

Notes that the economic, political and social change occurring in the world is having an effect on school system administration, but that with some creative foresight, administrators can seize the opportunity to become better leaders and to make creative changes in school system policy. (JC)

Examines variation in the methods used to assign students to classrooms and teachers in a small but highly diversified sample of elementary schools. Gives explicit attention to parental influence on pupil assignments as well as to effects of having an unusually incompetent or excellent teacher at a particular grade level. (NH)

Describes the development of a Title VII bilingual program in a California community where Hispanics constitute 46 percent of the population. Examines change strategies used over a ten-year period of renewal. (NEC)

Notes shortages of speech-language pathologists and points out strategies that rural school administrators can use to increase the chances or recruiting and retaining them. Topics include knowledge of the professional requirements and competencies, knowledge of caseload size and selection criteria, availability of clinical fellowship supervisor,…

Interview with Barbara Jackson, who has served as principal of the William Monroe Trotter Elementary School in the Roxbury section of Boston for the past 13 years and who is a strong supporter of parental choice and educational equity. The interview reveals some of her strategies for trying to empower parents. (BJV)

The way to educate poor children effectively lies in the fusion of school social work and knowledge about effective schools. The following factors should be of concern to social workers: (1) parent involvement; (2) student welfare; (3) administrative leadership; (4) academic focus; (5) consistent monitoring of student progress; (6) high…

The authors discuss the top three problems reported to hinder the spread of quality circles and evaluate selected solutions to them. The top problems include middle management resistance, lack of top management support, and employee resistance or apathy. Solutions discussed include social recognition and economic rewards. (CT)

Results of a university survey of faculty views on the department chairperson's role show unexpected broad agreement among disciplines. This is explained by the shared experience of being administered by a bureaucracy established in response to 1960s demands for administrative reform. (Author/ (MSE)