These guidelines, funded under provisions of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, have been prepared to assist school districts develop projects that will effectively achieve the objectives of the federal and state laws which relate to compensatory education. The appropriation for California under Title I is allocated to…

Since limited research has been reported on the use of organizations to supplement cooperative office education, it was the purpose of this study to determine the characteristics of vocational student organizations and advisors and to determine the attitudes of advisors to office and distributive education vocational student organizations in…

The purpose of this case study was to examine the origin and development of the Center for the Humanities at Arizona State University in Tempe. An attempt was made to explicate why and how the interdisciplinary humanities program began at Arizona State University, to describe the expansion of and changes in the program as it evolved into the…

In considering reasons for employing creative dramatics as part of the input and motivation for an experience in creative written expression, it is important to consider the primacy of oral language over written language, especially for children. Drama involves talk, movement, and the involvement of self in expression which is outer-directed;…

This paper focuses on the process of innovation in school systems. It considers the definition of educational innovation, the desired level of innovation, factors leading to the acceptance or rejection of innovations by school systems, and how the acceptance of innovations in school systems differs from that in other social institutions. The…

This document presents guidelines to help school personnel design efficient administration day care services for young children and their families. Topics discussed include day care philosophy, historical perspective, and rationale; some basic program planning and procedure suggestions; coordination of day care and public school programs; staff…

The purpose of the study was to provide "baseline" data for determining the feasibility of further investigation into the use of quantitive judgmental data in evaluating school programs for determining program budget allocations. The specific objectives were to: 1) Apply a Cost-Utility Model to a "real world" situation in a public secondary…

This monograph has two purposes: (1) to re-examine the findings of a series of studies (supported in part by the Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute at the University of Missouri--Columbia) and restate them in such a manner that may be of interest to a wide audience--particularlyto counselors and to teachers; and (2) to acquaint other…

The document establishes annual and long-range program plan provisions for the development, expansion, and improvement of vocational education for youth and adults of the Commonwealth. It describes the bureau's long-range objectives and annual program provisions for service based upon evidence of manpower needs, job opportunities, population…

This bibliography of abstracts was prepared to assist program planners and administrators in locating pertinent data on post-secondary cooperative education programs. The package is composed of abstracts of documents reported in "Research in Education" (RIE), "Abstracts of Research Materials in Vocational and Technical…

This report presents a plan indicating how State and local governments might hire the unemployed and the underemployed for government jobs under the provisions of laws such as the Emergency Employment Act. Two major jurisdictions were selected for the field study, the city of Chicago and the State of Connecticut, to represent a broad spectrum of…

The objectives, program, participants, and evaluation of The Administration of Instructional Change (TAIC) Institute are described in this report. The training program was designed to help teams of local leadership personnel to design strategies using media to cope with problems that blocked change, as well as to facilitate change by integrating…

Planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS) have borne few of the fruits that many claimed they would. This is partly due to the five following widely held misconceptions about PPBS: 1) that PPBS is primarily concerned with budgeting; 2) that PPBS should displace instructional goals; 3) that it is not necessary to attend to all elements of PPBS;…

This publication is designed to serve school administrators interested in reviewing the key administrative concepts relative to cooperative vocational education. The document identifies the various types of cooperative programs, the advantages of cooperative education, and the major limiting factors related to the administration of these programs.…

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of selected undergraduate programs of home economics, questionnaire data on 294 graduates employed in non-teaching settings were collected from executive officers, personnel managers, and directors of consumer, home, food, laboratory, and research sciences. Through their replies, these individuals warned that…