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Kelly, Gail P. – 1984
One of a series of papers on comparative education, this report considers curriculum and student life under colonialism through an examination of school knowledge in French West Africa in the first decades of the twentieth century. The monograph is divided into three parts. Part one describes the educational system of interwar West Africa. It…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), African History, Colonialism
Snyder, Karolyn J. – 1981
In serving two purposes, this paper explores elements in the current gap between what is known and what is practiced about how to influence student achievement and proposes a conceptual framework and an action model for rethinking the organization, management, and technologies of instructional programs. A comprehensive goal-based and role-based…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Educational Objectives
Wallich, Lynn R. – 1980
A review of the literature on school climate provides a conceptual framework for this study in which the Kettering School Climate Profile was administered twice to students, teachers, parents, and administrators in the Stoughton Middle School (Stoughton, Wisconsin). The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between organizational…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Collective Bargaining, Contracts
Bloomfield, Stefan D. – 1980
In conjunction with a survey of trends in university management in Europe, a North American comparison was undertaken. The national context for higher education in North America and the structural elements characteristic of its colleges and universities are considered, with emphasis directed to the elements of institutional structure that provide…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, College Administration
Blaug, Mark – 1980
An attempt is made to explain the intricacies of British higher education finance in language that is meaningful to an American audience. After a brief description of the bases of the British system, the following issues that have been subject to recent public debates in Britain are considered: (1) the finance of Oxford and Cambridge; (2) the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Federal Aid
Taylor, Beverly Loy; Thomas, John W. – 1978
This guide is the last of four intended to help persons involved in planning new schools, new programs, or other comprehensive change projects. The materials consist of readings to be done individually and exercises to be done individually and/or with a group. Guide 4 focuses on the linkage between the plan and the actual implementation of the new…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Decision Making
SWANSON, J. CHESTER; AND OTHERS – 1966
A STUDY OF VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF MISSOURI, COMMISSIONED BY THE GOVERNOR, CONCERNED THE AVAILABILITY, THE CLIENTELE, THE CURRICULUM, THE RELATION OF ENROLLMENT TO EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, THE INVOLVEMENT OF PERSONS OUTSIDE THE SCHOOLS, AND ANCILLARY SERVICES OF THESE PROGRAMS. ITS OBJECTIVE WAS TO PROVIDE THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Vocational Education, Career Guidance, Educational Planning
Anderson, Robert H. – 1968
This bibliography on organizational trends in schools lists 386 books, pamphlets, articles, bibliographies, and audiovisual resources published between 1955 and 1968, but mostly since 1965. Topics covered include (1) the educational reform movement and major trends in school organization, (2) cooperative teaching and emerging staff utilization…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction
Stemnock, Suzanne K. – 1974
Professional opinion and major research studies on the recommended sizes for school and school districts are summarized in this review. Definitive recommendations are not attempted, but the review does provide educational decision-makers with an insight into the thinking of others on these questions. The first section of the two-part study reviews…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, Decentralization, Educational Research
Troutman, Bruce E. – 1975
This practicum report deals with the development and implementation of a nongraded program of instruction in the primary levels of a public school. Progam activity, from the initial informational and planning phases, through development and implementation, and, finally, to postprogram assessment, is the subject and substance of the report. The…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum, Educational Planning
Chaffee, John, Jr., Ed.; Clark, James P., Ed. – 1976
This publication is a summary report of a national conference cosponsored by the U.S. Office of Education and the National Association of Secondary School Principals to discuss current concerns in secondary education. The report includes adaptations of general session addresses, reports on each of the 20 workshops, and articles on the general…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Articulation (Education), Conference Reports, Cultural Pluralism
McGowan, Francis, II; And Others – 1973
The program described and evaluated in this report is a nongraded (third and fourth grades) individualized learning situation in which students had available as educational stimuli the resources of three teachers and the combined materials of three classrooms. The program also contained provision for "blocks of time" during which various subjects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
Governor's Study Commission on the Public School System, Raleigh, NC. – 1968
This 1968 report synthesizes information obtained by the Governor's Study Commission on the Public School System of North Carolina, during their comprehensive 1-year study to determine the most suitable means for providing full educational opportunity for the children of North Carolina. Public hearings and research conducted by the commission, its…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance
McKelvey, Troy V., Ed. – 1973
Within the conceptual framewords that surround the development of new structures for the organization of education in metropolitan areas, contributors to this anthology focus on the purpose, conceptualizations, and proposed organizational structures of metropolitan educational reform activities. The book is primarily intended for scholars and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Objectives
Bartley, Diana E. – 1971
This book reports on the Soviet Union's general, secondary, polytechnical schools which have been established recently to teach students to use one foreign language with fluency or near fluency. The author first discusses the long-range and immediate objectives of these special schools. Marxist-Leninist theory and its influence on contemporary…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Communism
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