Although it is known that many persons under community supervision need and eventually want correctional education programs, little is known about the providers and characteristics of these educational programs. This report provides an overview of initiatives at the national and state levels supporting new approaches to community supervision and…

This paper reports on the final phase of a three-part study on the status of instructional supervision within several New York City public schools. In the first parts of the study the researchers found, through extensive use of surveys (questionnaires and interviews), that centralized educational reform had serious consequences for instructional…

County school superintendents' thoughts on education in 1845, drawn from the New York State superintendent's annual report and analyzed in this article, provide an enriching historical perspective for today's administrator. (MCG)

THIS IS A GUIDE FOR THE POTENTIAL RETAIL SUPERVISOR, OR ACTUAL SUPERVISOR, WHICH SUGGESTS SOUND APPROACHES TO BUILDING GOOD INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE SUPERVISOR AND HIS STAFF, AND BETWEEN THE RETAIL STORE AND THE CUSTOMERS. THE COURSE IS PLANNED FOR FIVE 2-HOUR SESSIONS ON (1) A PROFILE OF THE RETAIL SUPERVISOR, (2) ON-THE-JOB BEHAVIOR OF THE…

The purpose of this paper is to inform novice science teachers and science teacher educators of the pedagogy that science teacher supervisors value. As expert practitioners, supervisors have a perspective quite different from that of both novice teachers and teacher educators. Nine inservice science teacher supervisors assessed a novice teacher's…

The Fourth International Congress of School Hygiene, held at Buffalo, New York, August 25-30, was a notable event in the progress of health supervision as a part of public education. Because of its importance, the author was detailed to attend this conference and prepare a report of it. This report contains three parts: (1) An introduction giving…