In the late 1960's the Executive Branch of the Venezuelan government launched a massive reform of its mechanism of public administration in order to make it more supportive of the development needs of the country. This paper is an effort to analyze the process of organizational change as it takes place within one segment of the public…

Many research questions concering dissemination of educational innovations remain unanswered. We know that dissemination is in itself a science; our strategy is based on the belief that successful adoption of an innovation requires certain generic skills distinctly different from the skills related to a specific innovation. We are examining…

This appendix deals with Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which funds bilingual education projects proposed by local school districts. Section 1 describes the origins and the planning and management strategies that the United States Office of Education adopted for this program. Section 2 describes the role of state…

This annotated bibliography lists approximately 70 books and articles dealing with the installation of educational programs and procedures, as well as a few additional publications dealing with information dissemination and public relations. Within each of the two sections, citations are listed alphabetically by author's name. (JG)

This is a preliminary projection of holistic, alternative future patterns that might emerge among the institutions of education in the United States during the next few decades. These alternative educational patterns (AEPs) are associated in each case with broader contexts offered by selected Contingent U.S. Patterns (CUSPs). It is expected that…

The preface states that this report was developed from interviews of college administrators, staff, and students; from department self-studies; and from open hearings. The intent of the report is to present the framework for a changed administrative structure, a new academic design, and a system for policy determination. The document is divided…

How can school officials manage their responsibilities in ways that are likely to improve the quality of the product they provide? There is a logical sequence of activities. First, school officials must be able to diagnose where problems exist. Then they must learn to apply treatments systematically, to assess carefully the success or failure of…

Prepared as part of the Career Education Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the paper discusses the role of the State education agency as it relates to career education. Several strategies to initiate, implement, or expand career education are presented. Strategies for State education agencies include the board…

A random sample of 150 farmers (75 participants and 75 non-participants in radio forums) from Lahore and Gujrat districts in West Pakistan were surveyed via personal interview in 1971 to determine whether there was a relationship between: certain socioeconomic variables and farmer forum participation; radio forums and agricultural change,…

Some critical observers of schools despair of enduring and constructive change. Challenging the rhetoric of despair about change in school, the book is based on the hypothesis that schools, under certain conditions, can become much more vital and change-oriented than they currently are. The book begins by describing elements of educational reform…

This booklet is the third in a series of annual publications that list and describe a wide array of promising and innovative educational practices in hopes of stimulating the development of alternative educational delivery systems and strategies involving students, teachers, administrators, and parents. Included in the booklet are brief…

This study was undertaken to compare the variables related to the successful institutionalization of changes across divergent organizations, and to design, through cross-validation, an interorganization model of change. Descriptive survey questionnaires and structured interviews were the instruments used. The respondent sample consisted of 1,500…

The development and implementation of a written instructional strategy for planned change leading to the integration of the personal growth dimension and the intellectual growth dimension in the classroom is described in this paper. The strategy, based on intervention by data survey feedback and problem solving, was utilized with five freshman…

The exercises in this manual are designed to help elementary and secondary educators in the development of human relations skills, and with slight modification the exercises may be appropriate for college and university educators as well. The procedures for human relations skill development presented in the manual were developed over several years…

The aim of this article is to describe some ways in which behavioral principles and techniques can be efficiently and effectively applied within the school setting. It discusses helping students define their goals, criteria of behavioral counseling goals, insight versus behavior, behavioral change strategies, and various other applications.…