ADOPTION OF THE NONGRADED SYSTEM FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS NECESSITATES EXTENSIVE CHANGES FOR BOTH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE COMMUNITY. A SET OF ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES IS PROPOSED FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NONGRADED SYSTEM, AND THE ROLE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR IS EXAMINED IN RELATION TO (1) PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, (2) TEACHER AND…

The modern school system has become overloaded with expectations, many of which simply cannot be met. A large part of the problem is that programs are instituted without planning, thought, or evaluation, and concepts like career education are taught separately instead of being integrated into the curriculum. Successful dealing with problems…

Eight new approaches to collegiate general education are described. In an introductory overview article, "Toward the Reconstruction of General Education," Jerry Gaff, director of a project on general education models, provides specific suggestions for institutional renewal, such as the formation of a task force, composed of faculty,…

The inequality of opportunity that sometimes results from educational reform may not be an artifact or an aberration but may be the intended result of most programs. Although the ostensible goal of most educational reform is equal opportunity, very few programs achieve this goal. It is possible that the real goal of educational reform is continued…

A GRADUATE CLASS OF VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE TEACHERS PREPARED THIS PUBLICATION DEALING WITH NEEDED CURRICULUM CHANGES IN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE, PARTICULARLY IN THE SMALL HIGH SCHOOL OF 100 TO 300 STUDENTS. PART I, ON OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION FOR BOTH FARMING AND OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS, COVERS OBJECTIVES, CAREERS, EMPHASIS, CURRICULUM…

This testimony summarizes the results of the Rand Corporation's change agent study of educational innovations funded by federal programs. The second section consists of policy recommendations for ESEA Title IV Consolidated Programs, Part C. The study aimed to help improve federal policies by describing how the process of innovation and educational…

This book offers practical guidelines for planning and implementing mainstreaming at the local school level. Chapter I describes a process for planning which results in the individual school being organizationally and psychologically ready for mainstreaming. Chapter II examines the roles and responsibilities of students, parents, and the community…

After reviewing several of the problems facing educators in our changing society, the author focuses on the specific problem of providing adequate vocational education for rural youth. The ideas of community involvement in vocational education via business and industry advisory councils, plus more money for rural schools, are seen as possible…

The central purpose of this study was to identify the role of state field supervision of vocational education in Ohio in relation to change as perceived by supervisors and their reference groups. The primary task was accomplished in part by testing the following hypotheses: (1) The supervisors' reference groups differ in their perception of the…

The Louisville Public School District is probably the only large public school district which has systematically begun change on a "systems" basis. Top school officials first made a wide-ranging assessment of the most pressing problems in the district, developed and stated their premises, and then planned two programs. The primary…

Einstein, translated into a philosophy of education, views the factors governing man's qualities--his genes, his parents, his neighborhood, his church, his country, his world--as relative forces in his development, susceptible to infinite growth, and depending upon various combinations of experience. These experiences, in turn, depend upon nature…

Eleven papers address issues in the alignment of standards-based education and individualized transition planning and service development for students with disabilities including differences in assumptions and principles, the transition planning model as a framework for achieving this alignment, and educational practices resulting from this…

Institutions of higher learning in the United States have hastened to create ethnic studies programs, perhaps as a sort of "fire insurance" against student activism and protests. Certainly the move toward ethnic studies has roots in the student activism of the 1960s. Such studies are particularly prominent in large public institutions,…

Bronx Community College created a three-year College Discovery (CD) master plan for 1998-2001 to help restructure its counseling programs and support services and enable CD students to acquire an associate's degree level of education. The first area of restructuring is in the role of the director of College Discovery and Counseling. General…

A series of five discussions with more than 50 people involved in the national school-to-work initiative created by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (STWOA) resulted in the following conclusions (among others): (1) Problems with the concept include a negative attitude toward the phrase "school-to-work," the complicated nature…