Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in all federally funded education programs. There has been some confusion as to which single sex groups and programs are covered and which ones are exempt. Briefly discussed here are regulations covering: (1) groups whose membership practices are exempt; (2) programs…

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is an outgrowth of the Association of Teacher Education Institutions and the American Association of Teachers Colleges. The major purposes of the new organization founded in 1961 were: (1) to enable the members to make their influence felt in connection with national affairs; (2)…

The organization and mobilization for literacy work consist of two overlapping parts: organizational design and institution building. Organizational design, which covers both the technical and the social system, can be seen to include the following processes: analysis of the institution; invention of roles; invention of rules relating the roles…

This paper presents a summary and analysis of the current state of research in the field of organizational innovativeness and develops a provisional conceptual outline of the overall process and characteristics of organizational innovation and the general factors which may be related to innovativeness. Based on the "summaries approach" to…

The work is a report of a historical study of several international student organizations in their political and educational contexts to learn whether they, in fact, constitute a real student movement on a world scale. After tracing the growth of such organizations as the International Union of Students and the International Student Conference and…

This report on the role and character of interinstitutional cooperation as a tool for strengthening international education rests on 2 convictions. They are that interinstitutional cooperation offers the best available means both for bringing about change in higher education, particularly in regard to its international component, and for self-help…

The rationale and master plan have been developed, in accordance with legislative mandate, for the planning and implementation of a Flexible Staff Organization (FSO) feasibility study involving the operation of model FSO projects in selected Florida elementary and secondary schools. Objectives will be to explore patterns of staff utilization…

During the past several years a number of studies and subsequent reports have been issued which addressed specific needs in the area of management for schools in the District of Columbia. All of the reports cited here--the Passow, Nelsen Committee, Price-Waterhouse, and Management Review Reports--identified areas of deficiency in the managerial…

This paper argues that research on innovation and organizational change should shift its focus from the impact of individuals to that of organizational structure and environmental factors. The results of two research projects carried out in 1968-69 and 1969-70 on organizational change in school districts are presented to support the premise that…

This study develops a conceptual framework to guide empirical research on the utilization of indigenous nonprofessionals in human service organizations. The study is divided into six parts: (1) Identifies the different roles of nonprofessionals in organizations and specified factors which help define these roles; (2) Analyzes four studies in light…

Balance of power shifts in education have led to dramatically changed concepts of authority role relationships in school systems. There is a growing appreciation of the need for valid, knowledgeable inputs to the administrative decisionmaking process from various organizational levels, and a growing understanding of the values of well-conceived…

This work has been done as part of the effort to plan the National Institute of Education (NIE). The report, one of a series, describes the alternatives that must be considered in deciding the organization and management of a new Federal agency to conduct and support research and development. The alternatives examined are also germane to the…

This book gives practical, step-by-step instructions on the formation and operation of film societies. Film societies or clubs are usually made up of students of films who have no commercial motivations but who strongly desire to view repeatedly the many films that are unavailable in neighborhood theaters. This book explains club organization and…

The directory lists and describes governmental and voluntary agencies, research, and other resources in the field of mental retardation in foreign countries. The first section, on international organizations, gives names, addresses, names of directors, and one or more paragraphs of description for the United Nations and its specialized agencies,…

The purpose of this study was to determine if Halpin and Croft's organizational climates as identified by the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire were congruent with Likert and Likert's organizational systems as measured by the Profile of a School Instrument. Both instruments were administered to all teachers in 23 elementary schools.…