This guide to employee development within industry appears in two sections: Volume 1, administrative guidelines for training directors; and Volume 2, instructional practices for training staffs. Considerations in formulating training policies, steps in organizing the training function, identification and analysis of training needs, employee…

The desegregation decision by a local school system sometimes is perceived as the result of pressure, and at other times as unrelated to overt pressure for desegregation. Contrary to both of these views, this exploratory study suggests that a positive desegregation decision may stem from the personal values of school board members. These values…

Several variants of the "melting pot" ideology have informed the actions of those responsible for educational policy-making in the United States. This ideology has increasingly come under attack by a variety of persons. The purpose of this paper is to outline several legal grounds on which this ideology has been and will be challenged and to spell…

This book is organized in four chapters. Chapter 1, "The Basic Nature of Effective Desegregation," explores exactly what effective desegregation means. Chapters 2-4 set forth a prototype--an idealized version--of the process of achieving effective desegregation in an individual school district. The "model" has four basic parts: (1) A set of…

The Commission on Post-Secondary Education in Ontario was appointed in 1969 to advise the Ministers of Education and of University Affairs. The Commission was asked to consider, in the light of then-current provisions, the pattern necessary to ensure the further effective development of post-secondary education in the Province to 1980, and in…

The purpose of the study is to begin a detailed investigation of the low-paid work force and to focus attention on the determinants of low-wage employment, by dissecting the various forces that contribute to the determination of wage levels for full-time full-year workers. The question is whether low-wage poverty can be eliminated by upgrading the…

The paper examines the economic situations in Greenland and Alaska. Similar in many ways, the 2 countries represent opposite policy poles from a cultural standpoint. The basic economic problem is one of severe regional imbalance when compared with the rest of the nation. For both, government policy has tried to raise income and consumption to a…

Drawing on implications suggested by several recent studies in comparative urban research, the extent to which the structure of intergovernmental relations affects the allocations of public funds within a nation is examined. The focus is on educational policy and determining whether differing degrees of centralization affect the outcomes of the…

This publication consists of papers presented at the meetings of two advisory groups convened at Unesco. Internationally-known consultants were invited to assist in developing a program dealing with the sociocultural and linguistics adaptation of the content and methodology of education. At one meeting, concerned with the contribution of…

This document reports the results of a special study of the role and interagency relationships of State education agencies in comprehensive Statewide planning. The report deals first with the scope, nature, and organization of State planning; it then provides some examples of planning relationships in New York State and in the Commonwealth of…

A workshop was conducted at which 13 papers were presented on problems of chronically depressed rural areas. Attendees endeavored to assess the existing knowledge with respect to these problems, to point out major gaps in this body of knowledge, and to suggest types of research needed to cope with the problems of rural poverty. It was determined…

This monograph contains papers that study and assess the societal and political influences that could affect the work of the educational administrator during the next decade. Authored by conference speakers, panel members, and reactors, the papers cover such subjects as (1) the implications of social change for the administrator, (2) the politics…

This study of policy making is set in Chicago's school system during the late 1960's. The three case studies presented here identify a school board's response to core issues faced by school policy makers in the largest of the central cities in the United States. After applying both bargaining and unitary models to the Chicago school board's policy…

The role of the federal government in civic/citizenship education is discussed in this paper. A breakdown has occurred in former socializing institutions, such as the family and church, which have ceased to influence civic education. There is a need to reconceptualize the socialization process. Four factors that impede the socialization of…

The National Education Association (NEA) originally focused on a consensual relationship existing between classroom teachers and administrators on one hand and governing bodies of public education on the other. Both administrators and classroom teachers belonged to the same organization. During the past decade, the NEA became more militant,…