A school district in Rosemont, Minnesota, cut 2.4 million dollars from its general fund budget in 1982-83, a cut of almost 10 percent. Instead of splitting the community, the district emerged from the process stronger than before. This was accomplished through a 4-month participatory management process involving staff, citizens, parents, and…

Research was undertaken to enhance the ability of superintendents in public school districts without vocational directors to administer vocational programs effectively. Two objectives were identified: To determine the tasks which must be performed and the administrative functions employed for their accomplishment, and to present alternative model…

This volume presents a course of study for an internship program for high school student aides in the kindergarten classroom. Designed as a practical guide to techniques, activities and resources needed to develop basic helping skills, the course has three major components: (1) orientation, (2) training and (3) in-service seminars. Orientation,…

This handbook includes suggestions, guidelines, and techniques for helping a school or school district in planning and managing a system for involving the local community in career education activities for students in grades K-12. Guidelines cover initial planning and organization through implementation and evaluation. A coordinated, systematic…

The Michigan Department of Education defines professional development as a planned and organized effort to provide teachers and other educational workers with the knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate improved student learning and performance. The purpose of this paper is to provide a rationale and plan for professional development programs…

This article reports the findings of a study of faculty status in Texas public community and junior colleges. Eighty-three percent of the public community/junior colleges participated in the study, accounting for 85% of the full-time faculty in such institutions. Among the major findings were: (1) the median level of educational attainment of both…

To meet the needs of the State of Tennessee and the people involved in the administration of local vocational programs, an inservice training program for local vocational administrators was developed. The basic approach to the project centered on the extern concept. Major components of the program included a summer conference, regional and…

This course is one of several subcourses that make up the entire Army correspondence course on wheeled vehicle maintenance. The subcourse is designed to provide the student with information about the operation, malfunction diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of wheeled vehicle electrical systems. It provides the basic theory, and also includes…

This course is one of several subcourses that make up the entire Army correspondence course on wheeled vehicle maintenance. The subcourse is designed to provide the student with information about the operation, malfunction diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of wheeled vehicle clutches, transmissions, and transfer cases. It provides the basic…

A curriculum development project was carried out during 1979-81 to develop a teaching tool to be used to improve interpersonal skills of disabled community college students. The emphasis was on developing skills that can be used in obtaining and maintaining employment. The main activity of the project was to prepare a field-tested manual for use…

Designed as a resource manual for use in conjunction with state and/or local level career education staff development training sessions, this handbook also provides local practitioners with information to develop new or improved career education programs. Chapter 1 overviews the concept, rationale, goals, and objectives of career education in…

To ascertain the degree of utilization of bilingual programs and the concerns and questions teachers may have about their implementation, the Division of Bilingual and International Education of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory conducted a study which had four objectives relating to implementation of bilingual education programs in…

The problem of a perceived decline in secondary school students' reading comprehension and the efforts of one high school English department head to address that problem are described in this paper. The first section of the paper presents an extensive documentation of the decline in reading comprehension and of reactions by state and local…

This research study investigated the effect of the participation of science and mathematics teachers in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Institutes upon the achievement of junior and senior high school students. A randomly selected group of junior and senior high school science teachers and randomly selected classes of theirs were…

A personalized model for faculty development and a case study demonstrating its utilization are presented. The increasing need for stronq faculty development programs is noted with specific reference to the increasing numbers and varying types of college students. To respond effectively to the needs of this burgeoning student clientele, provisions…