The provisions and purpose of Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act related to the education of handicapped children are reviewed. Amendments to the law in 1967 and the goals of the program are considered. The role of the states in submitting plans to the Office of Education and eligibility requirements and procedures are…

An Educational System for the Seventies (ES '70) is a research and demonstration program representing a broad scope of activity that cuts across every aspect of education. Four main categories of activities comprise the substance of the current effort: staff development, instructional managment and career guidance, school management, and…

A four-phase process was used to develop the Maryland Plan: (1) goal-identification, (2) analysis of goal-related behavior and experiences, (3) integration of these experiences into a living-learning involvement with the industrial art curriculum content, and (4) evaluation. The plan made use of the behavioral analysis process as a technique to…

This research investigated the interrelationships of educational decision making with the organizational climate and innovativeness in public schools. The data used in the study were gathered from 1,250 professional staff members in 49 public schools in Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, and Utah. The participating schools were classified into…

This document reports on two institutes designed to communicate new concepts and procedures in vocational-technical education curriculum development to potential change agents in the various states. Formal presentations by 12 consultants and task force activities concerned innovation identification and prognoses for change, planning strategies for…

This document, intended to accompany "Analytic Summaries of Specifications for Model Teacher Education Programs" (SP 003 719), provides a basic introduction to the techniques of educational planning which were used in developing the ten models. General principles of models, system analysis, and behavioral learning systems are presented in concise…

This book presents the proceedings (speeches, discussions, and results) of the New York State Symposium on Evaluation in Education. The underlying purpose of the meeting was to respond to the State's proposal that the present approach to teacher certification and education be abandoned as ineffective and inappropriate, to engage in a deliberate…

The ways the administrative staff of the Carleton (Ontario) Catholic School Board has tried to promote change in the teaching of reading have encouraged more than half the teachers to use individualized reading programs. By using workshops, large and small interactions with a consultant, and individual consultations, the entire teaching staff has…

As a working definition, innovation in the context of higher education involves substantive changes and reforms in instructional methods, the use of student and faculty time, and the process of learning. These observations are based primarily on the results in some 75 projects underway in the California State University and College System. The…

Since student teaching has been redefined as a study of teaching, its concept and scope have been broadened to encompass a continuous exploration and examination of educational possibilities in various settings and under varying conditions. Such a concept of student teaching cannot be developed in the traditional setting of the public school…

This document carefully assesses the impact of innovations on mass education systems, especially the reverberations and consequences of the enormous growth of enrollments, and contrasts them with Great Britain and Western Europe. The major question the book seeks to answer is: In copying the precedents of the United States, what are other…

This report provides a description of an innovative ECE program which uses a diagnostic-prescriptive approach. The program is based on a comprehensive developmental model in which cognitive growth proceeds through motor, perceptual, integrative, and symbolic phases. It is emphasized that the basic developmental processes must be assessed so that…

The enrollment growth in higher education is slowing down. While the decline can be viewed as part of a long-term growth cycle, institutions still need to find students. Institutions may find students by expanding their educational mission, by ascertaining the instructional needs of a variety of students, and by offering the appropriate services…

A study, presented to the National Dissemination Conference, provides a conceptualization of a model diffusion system as it might exist within a state education agency (SEA) and places this diffusion model within the context of the SEA's expanding role as an educational service. Five conclusions were reached regarding a model diffusion system.…

This document reports on a project undertaken to determine the feasibility of a periodic national survey of a sample of U.S. school districts to obtain information on the performance of the existing dissemination and utilization network for educational innovations. The first section of volume 1 describes the content and consequences of innovation,…