Parental involvement in education is shown to extend to the areas of teacher education with recommendations for greater preservice preparation for dealing with parents and planning for staff development with cooperative programs for parents and teachers. (JMF)

The training, experience, and temperament of professional school staff does not prepare them to judge the strengths or weaknesses of school programs or make recommendations for improvement. Suggestions for priorities in teacher training institutions to improve this situation are presented. (JMF)

Discusses differences between research and evaluation and identifies needed research areas: learning strategies, success and failure, transfer of training (learning), human resources development (HRD) staffing and placement, and HRD attitudes. Outlines research competency areas: develop research designs, design and validate data-gathering…

Outlines a four-phase approach that a yearbook business staff can use to interest the student body in buying copies of the yearbook. (Second of a four-part article.) (GT)

A successful effort to raise reading achievement in the Denver schools illustrates key factors in educational change. (Author)

Contains a selection of abstracts from the ERIC system concerning management development programs in community colleges. (MB)

A hypothetical urban school system is described to illustrate a method of response to the issues of equal educational opportunity, desegregation, staff training and retraining, increasing urban costs, emerging power groups, bureaucratic stagnation, decentralization, and student growth. (MB)

Final of a six part series discusses the idea that the reputation and credibility of training and development is much lower outside the training community than within it. Urges organizational trainers and developers to prove cost effective contributions to their organizations. (LAS)

Seminar report and recommendations of the Ontario Society for Training and Development's Professional Development Committee on competencies needed by professional training and development personnel, including checklists of skills and abilities in the various competency areas. (MF)

Presented in the third and final article in a series are strategies for personal survival in chaotic and stressful environments such as those encountered by staff working in hearing and speech agencies. (IM)

A survey of community-based organizations in Malaysia determined that there was strong support for public library sponsored community information services (CIS). This article examines CIS activity in Malaysia; analyzes the survey findings; and proposes a program of action for developing a prototype CIS model and CIS guidelines and designing a…

Describes how to use knowledge about adult learners and about different learning styles (environmentally, emotionally, sociologically, and physiologically) when planning and implementing staff development. (SR)

Discusses the importance of teaching communication skills to individuals with severe disabilities and reviews the development and evaluation of Developing Communicative Interactions, a data-based staff training program that supports the development of a prescribed set of interaction skills by interacting communication partners. (Author/CR)