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Download full textCRAIN, ROBERT L; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE ISSUE OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION WAS STUDIED AS IT OCCURED IN SEVEN SOUTHERN CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, RESULTING FROM THE 1954 "BROWN" DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT. THESE CITIES WERE COLUMBUS, JACKSONVILLE, NEW ORLEANS, MONTGOMERY, ATLANTA, MIAMI, AND BATON ROUGE. CASE STUDY DATA WERE GATHERED THROUGH INTERVIEW RESPONSES AND…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Case Studies, Census Figures, City Government
Wilcox, Kathleen – 1980
Ethnography, a qualitative, small-scale, indepth approach to research developed within the discipline of anthropology, is here explored as a potential strategy in the investigation of issues related to educational governance and policy-making. The first section of the paper defines the term ethnography and discusses characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Anthropology, Educational Change, Educational Policy
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Washington, DC. – 1980
Undergraduate admissions policies and practices at 1,463 institutions were surveyed. The investigation dealt with many aspects of admission, including policy-making authority, application procedures, accessibility and selectivity, student credentials, recruitment, and marketing, guidance and course placement, and differential treatment of various…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Admission Criteria
Fisher, Peter S. – 1979
Using multiple regression analysis for each county and a case study of selected services in Johnson County, Iowa, the study estimated the impacts of rural non-farm development in Iowa on the demand for local public services, on the cost of providing these services, and on the distribution of service benefits and tax burdens among population…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Services, County Programs, Human Services
Rossmiller, Richard A. – 1977
This handbook is intended to provide authoritative information and guidance to school board members in meeting the responsibilities of service. Frequent reference is made to pertinent sections of the Wisconsin statutes, and in many such instances the number of the statute is given. The guide begins with an outline of the role of the school board…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
Moyer, Kerry L. – 1978
Four evaluation methods for determining educational policy are objectivism; subjectivism; emotive-imperative; and instrumentalism. For the objectivist, the rationale for undertaking an evaluation is based on empirical verification or non-verification of claims of existing policies or activities. Secondly, the objectivist is interested in…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Change Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1979
The transcript of the March 1979 hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and related measures are compiled in this document. The hearings were held to review not only the programs that expire in 1979 but all higher education programs that come under the jurisdiction of the House Subcommittee…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Colleges, Developing Institutions
Campbell, Richard W.; Carroll, James D. – 1978
Volume 1 of a two-volume series, this case study tells the story of the events and decisions associated with the 1976 court-ordered shutdown of schools in New Jersey. It also analyzes the state educational decision-making structure. The school closing was undertaken because, according to the New Jersey Supreme Court, the state had not properly…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Court Litigation, Decision Making
Yarger, Sam J.; Yarger, Gwen P. – 1979
Federal policy and research regarding staff development in rural areas must take into consideration the inherent limitations in teacher inservice and preservice education, rural educational problems (limited human resources, migrant education, modern education services) that could be remedied by improved staff development, and the role of both the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Educational Problems
Hepworth, H. Philip – 1976
This report reviews current standards for the provision of family and group day care services in Canada in 1976. The first chapters describe the scope of the study and the problems encountered in setting and comparing program standards. The main body of the report surveys program standards in each Canadian province. These reviews focus on specific…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Legislation
Ploch, Louis A. – 1977
The reversal in migration patterns in the 1970's resulting in a net population flow from metropolitan (urban) to nonmetropolitan (rural) areas may have a variety of rural development consequences. Sizeable population increase in rural communities which traditionally have experienced net out-migration or very slow increases is evident in Maine…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Improvement, Life Style
Harkness, Albert, Jr. – 1977
The paper questions whether educational and cultural activities sponsored by the United States government should be aimed at foreign policy objectives or should be treated as ends in themselves. Arguments are presented by political leaders, educators, and government officials in favor of and against cultural exchange as a form of foreign policy…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Cultural Activities, Cultural Awareness
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. Coll. of Education. – 1977
The document presents a report of a February, 1977 conference in Sarasota, Florida, which dealt with local transportation planning and citizen skills. The conference served as a forum for exploring citizen input into issues which had been generated in public meetings, a referendum, the city and county commissions, and hearings before state…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Community Cooperation, Community Services
Benham, William J., Jr. – 1977
Providing tabular, graphic, and narrative data, this report on American Indian education programs within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) details past, present, and future BIA educational concerns. Specifically, this report addresses: the BIA background; the contemporary scope of BIA education (Federal school operations, higher education and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Basic Skills, Boarding Schools
National Science Teachers Association, Washington, DC. – 1978
This instructional unit for use in 11th and 12th grade social studies and science courses contains six classroom lessons dealing with United States energy policy. The overall objective is to help students understand how circumstances, present and proposed legislation, political action, and the Constitution itself become linked in the development…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Decision Making, Energy
