To gain insight into a leader's ability to effect change by influencing group peers this study sought to identify structural properties and communication behavior characteristics of the school systems in which opinion leaders and isolates work, as they relate to a change strategy for vocational-technical education. Based on questionnaire data…

During the decade of the seventies many changes in education will occur which will affect students, teachers, and administrators as well as the curriculum. To review some of the innovative ways selected schools are already changing their programs in an effort to be more relevant, a pilot visit was made by 81 businessmen and educators to five…

In an effort to determine what constitutes a workable educational region, demographic, economic, social, political, and educational data from eight New York supervisory districts were collected and analyzed. Each district included a board of cooperative educational services (BOCES). This document reports the results of these eight case studies…

This paper describes a training program for communication consultants in a school district, and presents an evaluation of the effects of the program on participants. A 2-week laboratory provided an opportunity for the 23 trainees to practice diagnosing and intervening into team organizational processes and to try out exercises and techniques that…

This bulletin contains the Proceedings of a conference on Follow Through held on December 9-10, 1969, at the University of Florida. The conference was sponsored by the Florida Department of Education, the Institute for Development of Human Resources, and the Florida Educational Research and Development Council. The purpose of this conference was…

In order to transform the disruptive forces that threaten the university today into cohesive ones, the university should make structural changes within itself toward a new purpose of enhancing society's capability for continuous self-renewal. It may have to become a political institution, interacting with government and industry in the planning…

A study examined the relationship between school system innovativeness and selected dimensions of interpersonal behavior in eight Wisconsin school systems. A composite ranking of school system innovativeness was developed from three sources: the district superintendent, the professional staff of the system, and a State Department panel. Selected…

In the introduction to this collection of papers, William Drummond summarizes the national conference proceedings and personal reactions to them. Chapter 1, "The Revolution Explosion," is a talk by Frankie Beth Nelson about the way an anthropologist looks at the school and its purposes. Chapter 2 (SP 002 631), "Student Teaching: The State of the…

Nathan Hale Senior High School in West Allis, Wisconsin was designed to survive inevitable educational innovations adjusting to predicted trends. The architects planned three study-groups of schoolrooms. Each group can operate independently affording a more intimate air than the usual atmosphere of a massive school. Classroom "clusters" are…

The power of US contemporary technological society is generated in the universities --especially in graduate schools-- but if graduate education fails to contribute substantial benefits to society, it should not be awarded indefinite financial support from the federal government. The comfort, power, and prosperity enjoyed in our age are…

The Symposium proceedings point out that the evaluation of educational innovations awaits the modernization of evaluation theory. Specific approaches to the problem are presented in five papers, as follows: (1) "An Overview of the Evaluation Problem," by Egon G. Guba, Associate Dean, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington,…

Today's children receive information in relatively unstructured form through communications media which surmount barriers of time and space. In comparison, traditional sequential learning may seem slow and uninteresting. Technological innovation in education would make it possible to place emphasis on student discovery through informative media,…

This report, the third in a series dealing with the development of community service programs, presented a review and evaluation of the concept of a center for community development. The objectives of such a center would be to: determine the adequacy of existing community-oriented programs; involve more people in existing programs; have a trial…

This document reports an initial conference of ten small developing colleges which are contracted to study the feasibility of instituting all or parts of the nine teacher education program models developed in the Teacher Education Project of the U.S. Office of Education (USOE). Included in the report are summaries of prepared statements by each…

The Pennsylvania Advancement School, a nonprofit corporation under contract to the School District of Philadelphia (partially funded under ESEA Titles I and III), is working for the second year toward its goal of stimulating positive change in the education community. Four important elements comprising the model school are the autonomy allowing it…