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Ancess, Jacqueline; Darling-Hammond, Linda – 1994
International High School, New York (New York) is a secondary school for students who have been in the United States less than 4 years and who score below the 20th percentile on an English language proficiency test. The 310 students of 1988 came from 37 nations, and spoke 32 languages. An evaluation conducted in the 1991-92 school year indicates…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cooperative Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational Change
Bloom, Evan; Reed, Sue – 1991
Intended for community development professionals and volunteers who work with preliterate communities, this illustrated handbook accompanies a library of visual aids that allow rural people to formulate their own projects. (The curriculum, called Pictorial Apprenticeship, transfers the process of project design into visual forms that literate and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Development, Community Involvement
Massachusetts Career Development Inst., Springfield. – 1998
This booklet is one of six texts from a workplace literacy curriculum designed to assist learners in facing the increased demands of the workplace. The booklet contains seven sections that cover the following topics: (1) meaning of total quality management (TQM); (2) the customer; (3) the organization's culture; (4) comparison of management…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Decision Making, Employer Employee Relationship, Management Teams
Furtwengler, Willis J. – 1991
Reaching Success through Involvement (RSI) is a continuous improvement process through which schools can constantly restructure and create quality cultures through altering school roles and responsibilities of students, teachers, administrators, and parents as well as increasing student involvement. Previous papers have reported the results of the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, High Schools
Miron, Louis F.; And Others – 1991
An overview is provided of the Accelerated Schools Project (ASP) as implemented in one urban elementary school in New Orleans, emphasizing the role of the University of New Orleans Satellite Center. The present student population of the school studied is 405 students in grades pre-kindergarten through six. The ASP is a non-traditional strategy for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Agents, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Learning
Torbert, William R. – 1981
Educational research has thus far failed to greatly improve education because it is based on a model of reality that emphasizes unilateral control in both research and practice. Efforts to gain unilateral control presume that researchers or practitioners know what is significant from the outset, that they are essentially outside the situation they…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Discovery Learning, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices
Thayer, Arthur N., Comp.; And Others – 1980
Collecting information from sources including periodicals, regulations, and California school district documents, this guide offers a variety of suggestions for establishing strong management teams. After a brief account of the evolution of the management team in California, an essay underscoring the importance of commitment for effective…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Guides, Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining
Castin, Franz – 1987
This document presents an overview and synthesis of the involvement of employers' and employers' organizations in the development of vocational training policy in Europe. Material was gathered through the personal experience of the author and from interviews with those responsible for vocational training in various employers' professional…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Continuing Education, Educational Policy, Employer Attitudes
Oxnard School District, CA. – 1990
Year-round education, a widely misunderstood concept, offers both financial and educational advantages to school districts. Not only does a year-round education schedule allow a school to educate 20 to 50 percent more students in the same amount of space, it reduces the amount of time spent in review by offering continuous learning with more…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Boe, Erling E. – 1990
The findings of a pilot study of Pennsylvania's School Performance Incentive (SPI) program are presented in this report. School level incentive policies as elements of the entrepreneurial context of educational restructuring and an organizational model for an incentive-based merit system are also discussed. The study examines the effect of SPI on…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Competition, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education
Ochoa, Alberto M.; Mardirosian, Vahac – 1990
A nonprofit, independent parent education program for parent empowerment is described in this report. Sponsored by the Parent Institute for Quality Education, the training process focuses on developing parent involvement, action, and advocacy in low income, Hispanic, and ethnolinguistic populations. The program challenges the expectation that…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Hispanic Americans
Bagin, Don; And Others – 1985
This volume provides information and recommendations about public relations to assist school administrators in developing effective communication. The document contains 15 chapters. "The Scope of Public Relations," chapter 1, specifies characteristics of and individuals responsible for an effective program. Chapter 2, "Personal Public Relations,"…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Communication Skills, Community Involvement, Community Surveys
Ladwig, Dennis J. – 1983
During the 1982-83 school year, a quality/performance circles system model was implemented at Lakeshore Technical Institute (LTI) to promote greater participation by staff in decision making and problem solving. All management staff at the college (N=45) were invited to participate in the process, and 39 volunteered. Non-management staff (N=240)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Attitude Change, College Administration
Marangou, Stella – 1986
Changes in planning and design of educational facilities in Greece, formalized by legislation in 1985, were the result of major educational and social reforms begun in 1982. This report analyzes issues involved during the present educational facilities transitional phase and recommends establishment of a central support service. The legislative…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Charters, W. W., Jr. – 1979
This report compares two approaches to measuring task interdependence, a theoretically fruitful concept for analyzing an organization's technical system. Task interdependence exists among operating personnel in the degree that task performance of one operative constrains, augments, or otherwise poses contingencies for the performance of another.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concurrent Validity, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
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