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Caissy, Gail A. – Executive Educator, 1986
Establishing a software evaluation committee provides administrators with technical expertise in determining appropriate software. Committee members should include a curriculum expert, a computer expert, and a subject area teacher. (CJH)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Material Evaluation
Boyles, Lyle E. – 1985
The purpose of this paper is to define a rationale for use in the refinements of daily curriculum operations in a school district, and establish a general understanding about policy and non-policy matters in curriculum. It is concluded that the area of curriculum should be guided by written policies which demonstrate that appropriate attention has…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Board of Education Policy, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedJoseph, Ellis A. – Theory into Practice, 1982
Task forces are increasingly used in educational planning activities. Some basic functional principles pertaining to task forces are considered and followed by a description of the accomplishments of a current task force which is focusing on personnel preparation for teaching handicapped students. (CJ)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Planning, Exceptional Persons, Mainstreaming
Download full textNafziger, Dean; And Others – 1985
The San Diego City Schools Research Cooperative is an attempt to integrate the work of practitioners, researchers, and community members to meet the individual needs of each group while providing programmatic, practical research findings to district officials. This paper discusses issues pertaining to the development of a research cooperative: the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKogan, Maurice – Higher Education Management, 1992
One educator criticizes another's characterization (HE 530 510) of national research councils as part of a linear multitiered structure, interpretation of the roles of two British councils, and assumptions about decision-making and policy-setting processes. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Role, College Administration, Decision Making
Peer reviewedFenger, Pim – Higher Education Management, 1992
The role of national research councils as buffers between the state and the scientific community is discussed from three perspectives--research councils as part of a stratified, dispersed decision-making structure; a para-governmental organization; and promoting transnationalization of scientific and educational exchange. Pressures and threats on…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Role, College Administration, Decision Making
Verzasconi, Ray – 1984
The Independent Study in the Humanities Fellowship program for teachers of grades 9-12 has been sponsored since 1983 by the Council for Basic Education under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The program awards $3,000 fellowships for summer study to outstanding teachers of English, foreign languages, history, and other…
Descriptors: Competitive Selection, Evaluation Criteria, Fellowships, Guidelines
