The Metropolitan Educational Development and Research Project (MEDARP) Documentation Unit, located in the Office of Educational Evaluation (OEE) at the New York City Board of Education, is funded by the Ford Foundation to document, evaluate and provide technical assistance to the School Improvement and Local School Development Projects; these are…

For America to sustain a high standard of living and set aside the resources needed for national security, at least a decade of shoring up productive capacity is required--a period of reindustrialization. The United States has been underdeveloping, with too much consumption of goods and resources and too little investment in the national economic…

This report of the Initial Planning Meeting of the Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development describes the beginning of a series of activities aimed at improving in-service primary teacher education in the countries involved. Participating countries include Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Republic of…

This monograph is one of 12 that address various topics in the area of CETA/education linkages. They were designed to provide those individuals interested in the development and implementation of CETA/education linkages with information that will serve to enhance the quality of existing programs and facilitate the efficient and effective…

This training package, which centers on effective management and the operation of valid prevention programs, presents a five-day training experience designed to help managers of substance-abuse prevention programs. In this trainer manual, the introduction includes a list of course goals and objectives, a summary of the ten individual training…

This training package, which centers on effective management and the operation of valid prevention programs, presents a five-day training experience designed to help managers of substance-abuse prevention programs. In this participant manual, the introduction includes a list of program goals and objectives and a summary of the ten individual…

This monograph presents ideas for initiating and/or improving parent education programs. The first of eight sections examines the history of California's parent education since its beginning in 1926. Section 2 discusses developing a parent education philosophy; activities suitable for parent education programs are suggested. Section 3 provides…

The one most important ingredient that should be included in the training of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) students who will be entering business and industry is practical experience prior to graduation, a conclusion resulting from two surveys. The first survey was sent to recent I/O graduates newly employed in industry, and asked for an…

Reviewed in this report is the second year of this project. The major proposal objectives, activities and accomplishments of the program are summarized. The third party evaluation presented provides: (1) an overview and impressions of the project's development, operation, and acceptance; (2) an assessment of the project's performance in meeting…

The concept of collaboration, which underlies the design and structure of the Teacher Center Policy Board, has been widely accepted as an effective mechanism, but this acceptance is to a large degree without sound basis. A number of assertions can be supported about the ineffectiveness of collaboration: (1) collaboration in teacher education is…

The purpose of this self-appraisal checklist is to assist school personnel in their endeavors to improve intramural programs. The checklist is organized into eight major categories that represent essential aspects of an intramural program: philosophy and principles; organization and administration; finances, facilities, and equipments; rules and…

The fourth publication in the Model Schools series, this guide for administrators suggests changes and procedures that come mainly from the authors' experience in the Model Schools Project, a five-year program sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The project's purpose was to demonstrate in a group of schools that…

A Study investigated skill training, job placement, and follow-up services for the vocationally handicapped of sheltered workshops in Utah. Two questionnaires were developed, one to ascertain pertinent data about clients from the sixteen workshops of Utah and the other from the placed clients, for validation purposes. All but one workshop…

This volume presents a completed example of the organizational development process for a fictitious program entitled "The Ridge," and is designed to assist the user in gaining greater understanding of the utility of an organizational development model. The materials are presented in a four-phase sequence, addressing the following topics:…

An ethnographic paradigm was used to collect the needed information on effective Right to Read program planning and staff training in several New York school districts. The paradigm encompassed six steps: determining program goals and objectives, completing needs assessment, determining planning strategies, writing and accepting the plan,…