This book consists of nine articles prepared for a 1973 conference that considered the lessons of two federally funded compensatory education projects of the late 1960s, the Follow Through program and the Head Start Planned Variation program. Both were planned variation programs, under which local communities were invited to design, implement, and…

Eleven country reports and five special articles, contributed by educators who have been associated with the planning of education in their countries, are presented. In analyzing their experiences, educators not only pinpoint organizational and procedural shortcomings from which educational planning has suffered in Asia, but also highlight what…

This document is one of two publications that resulted from the National Seminar on the Diffusion of New Instructional Materials and Practices held at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin in June 1973. It is written for and recommends diffusion methods to those who control the resources that are used to diffuse and implement…

This study analyzes the six-month negotiation process of a federally funded program to renew an interagency curriculum diffusion project with a state department of education and nine school districts. Because of interagency dissension during the first project year, the federal agency made concessions to obtain project renewal policies. Federal…

The purpose of this paper is to define HETFIRE (the title of a report by the Higher Education Task Force on Improvement and Reform in American Education), and to identify and discuss the key elements contained in HETFIRE. The task force was established in 1972 to determine and conceptualize the best thinking of the higher education teacher…

This document is designed to assist Illinois Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III project directors in familiarizing all phases of the public with their innovative programs. The first section of the document is an overview. The sections that follow give an explanation of the dissemination goals and certain conditions most suitable for…

Evidence suggests that educational organizations lack internal coordination. This is especially true of the content and methods of what is presumably their central activity--instruction. Instruction tends to be removed from the control of the organizational structure, both in its bureaucratic aspects and in its professional or collegial aspects.…

This publication describes a practicum that developed, disseminated, and evaluated a proposal development handbook intended to aid school district personnel in submitting proposals to funding agencies. In addition to the handbook, several other dissemination activities were developed and implemented to meet the needs of specific target audiences.…

Fourth in a series of profiles documenting the practices of 24 institutions, this report describes Syracuse University's Center for Instructional Development, which spearheads the campus-wide determination to find better ways of teaching and learning. The Center relies not on hardware but on the force of its ideas and the willingness of the…

Factors influencing the implementation of physics curriculum projects are examined. Large scale implementation of curriculum projects is discussed in terms of involving representatives of many groups, including the government, the educational system, technical colleges, industry, professional associations, examining boards, parents, and society.…

The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to investigate some of the major issues, principles, and practices in education and music education to provide direction in planning and implementing more realistic and comprehensive music programming at the elementary level. The inquiry into current educational trends outside of the specialized area of…

Teacher educators need to standardize levels of achievement both for admission to and for graduation from communications programs. Competency-based education may help to establish standards of behavior which are objectively measurable, but the fact that this approach is often implemented for political rather than educational reasons demands that…

The historical study of education as it can contribute to an understanding of current educational problems, practices, and attitudes is discussed. Historical studies can be profitably addressed to the following issues in education today: curriculum reform; the relationship between the state of the economy and educational innovations; the impact of…

This study discusses innovation in the inservice education and training of teachers (INSET) in Sweden. Section I presents some information regarding background and the present situation of INSET in Sweden. Section II examines five case studies. These are: coordination of INSET and policy-oriented educational research and development; study days…

This practicum report describes a year-long effort to reorganize a large urban junior high school according to the "house plan" concept, in which the school is organized administratively and geographically by grade level, rather than by academic department. The reorganization plan involved five major changes, including relocation of departments…