Reported are the results of a project which focused on staff development in five elementary schools to improve services to children with special problems. Focused on are the efforts of the five principals to develop, implement, and evaluate the staff development approach. Chapters are given to the following aspects: characteristics of the…

In order to compile an inventory of secondary school cocurricular dramatics programs in the Jefferson County, Kentucky, public schools, eleven principals, eighteen teachers, and eighty students were randomly selected from thirteen high schools, five junior high schools, and five middle schools. Respondents completed questionnaires concerning the…

Public demands for accountability in school systems led the Capital School District in Dover, Delaware, to begin investigating management systems in 1974. This investigation led to the adoption of a management by objectives system in 1975 and the addition of program budgeting in 1976, providing the district with the tools of administrative…