This study focused on students' responses toward an experimental instructional program called Flex-time that was offered in grades three through five in a Southeast NJ school district. The study aimed to determine: (1) if the Flex program motivated and/or engaged students to have a love for learning and (2) if characteristics, such as grade level,…

The success analysis approach consists of individual and group exercises through which participants, in sharing meaning-centered experiences, identify their strengths and needs and clarify values operative in both past and expected successes. This approach constitutes a rational and practical perspective whereby students, teachers, staff, and…

This paper presents the results of an opinion poll given to a sample of parents, parent association board members, staff, and the principal at Cedar Park and Sand Point schools where the dual principalship experiment has been under way since September 1976. The data provided by this limited experiment do not justify a conclusion that the dual…

Describes the aims, design, and procedures of a project which provided experience with teleconferencing to isolated educators in the Northern Territory of Australia to enable them to judge its advantages, limitations, and potential for alleviating isolation and improving educational services. Issues identified by teachers and administrators are…

Developed by the University of Maryland for the Maryland-D.C. Nursing Home Association, these two series, each containing 84 hours of instruction in four three-day seminars, were designed to meet nursing home administrators' need for managerial skills and to prepare them for licensing. (Based on experiences with the first series, course materials…