(1964). INSTRUCTIONAL HANDBOOK FOR EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS. UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF R. STEWART JONES, ALONG WITH THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF DIVISION 15 OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, A COMMITTEE WAS ESTABLISHED TO STUDY THE IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. THE COMMITTEE SAW A USEFUL PURPOSE IN A HANDBOOK THAT WOULD SUMMARIZE RESOURCE MATERIALS AND THE CREATIVE METHODS AND MATERIALS BEING USED IN THIS COURSE IN VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS. A SYSTEMATIC MEANS OF SHARING THE BEST EXERCISES, RESOURCES, AND METHODS THAT EACH INSTITUTION HAD DEVELOPED WAS THE MAJOR PURPOSE OF THIS EFFORT. MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE THROUGH PERSONAL LETTERS TO EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS AT OVER 100 UNIVERSITIES AND THROUGH AN APPEAL IN THE DIVISION 15 NEWSLETTER SOLICITED MATERIALS AND IDEAS. THE RESULT WAS AN INSTRUCTIONAL HANDBOOK FOR EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS. IT IS ORGANIZED IN TWO PARTS. PART ONE PRESENTS RESOURCE MATERIALS FOR THE TEACHER OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (SUCH AS REFERENCE AND TEACHING MATERIALS, REVIEWS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH,…
(1980). Negotiation in the Face of Declining Enrollment. As a result of declining enrollment and unionization of teachers, administrators are losing their roles as educational leaders. They must be innovative in order to reassert their prerogatives over decisions on such issues as class size, transfer limitations, and the selection of new employees and to promote a better educational climate in the midst of shrinking resources. Administrators may need to redesignate course length and content in terms of better teacher utilization, redesign leave of absence and early retirement policies, and bargain for hiring practices that allow for a part-time or adjunct staff. Interdistrict sharing of teachers and staggered work hours (prime-time staffing) could help in eliminating nonproductive time. Perhaps principals should be instituted as members of the district management negotiating team in order to utilize their intimate knowledge of working conditions. Other ways to cut expenses include the introduction of past practices not specifically…
(1971). A Year Ago This Week. The implications for American education today in reforms initiated at the Federal level in finance, research, curriculum, accountability, and administration were discussed by the U. S. Commissioner of Education. The financial reforms focus on revenue sharing. In the research area, Commissioner Marland discusses the proposed National Institute of Education (NIE), and the changes being made in the Office of Education so as to provide resources for programs for the disadvantaged. The major components of the higher education bill are, as stated by Commissioner Marland, expanded student aid, institutional aid, the National Foundation for Higher Education, and the National Institute of Education. Career education as proposed by the Office of Education is seen as the means of supplying young people, especially those in inner cities and rural depressed areas, with knowledge about the world of work and with control over their own lives. Commissioner Marland states that the year that had… [PDF]
(1992). The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours. This book provides a brief account of the life and work of the founder of the Children's Defense Fund, in the form of a letter to her 3 sons and 25 lessons to live by. It discusses her childhood in segregated South Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s, the influence of her parents on her outlook, and her concept of service to others as the purpose of life. The book also discusses racial tensions in the United States and the role of parents in raising their children. The 25 lessons for life focus on such topics as: working for everything you get, setting goals, individual initiative, taking risks, taking parenting seriously, men sharing family and household responsibilities, family responsibility, honesty, fellowship, substance over style, perseverance, making a difference, life-long learning, respect for hard work, choosing friends carefully, living in the present, service to community and nation, remembering one's roots, reliability, and faith. The book concludes by discussing…
(1996). Dads and Their Daughters: Father-to-Father Strategies. The National Coalition of Girls' Schools is an organization of over 80 girls' boarding and day, private and public schools from across the United States with affiliates in Canada and Australia. Coalition members share a commitment to the values and advantages of an all-girls school. To that end, the organization has collected and conducted research on gender issues and developed a series of publications for girls, their parents, and educators. The essays in this booklet represent the voices of men who have chosen to share their personal experiences and willingly offer some simple yet powerful strategies that redefine what it means to be a father. Strategies are detailed in the following sections directed to fathers: (1) sharing your career with your daughter; (2) encouraging the leader in your daughter; (3) participating in athletics, which enhance father-daughter bonds; (4) being a role model and mentor; (5) building bonds between fathers and daughters; (6) reaching your daughter…
(1997). Leading Your Team to Excellence: How To Make Quality Decisions. Site-based management is a concept whose time has come. This book was designed to introduce the concept of teaming, elaborate the decision-making process, and describe the skills and processes needed for a variety of decision-making situations. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of teaming and discusses the decision-making process in depth. Chapters 2 through 9 describe eight different types of team activities in which groups may engage over the course of their working life together. The second chapter discusses building and sharing values. The third chapter covers team building and offers a variety of activities designed to help a team build trust and teamwork. Activities to develop creativity and new ideas are described in chapter 4. Chapter 5 discusses ways in which groups can share critical information with one another and with the larger audiences they may be representing. Chapters 6 through 9 introduce strategies for problem solving, consensus building, conflict resolution, and…
(1986). Alternative Work Patterns. Facts on U.S. Working Women. Fact Sheet No. 86-3. Alternative work schedules can help parents of young children. They are also attractive to students, older workers, handicapped persons, couples desiring to share work and home responsibilities, persons wishing to upgrade skills or switch careers through a return to school, and employers needing to serve the public outside the traditional workday, wanting to use their capital more intensively, or hoping to benefit by reducing absenteeism. Flexitime is an alternative work-time pattern that allows employees to vary their arrival and/or departure times. Experimental approaches allow employees to vary work schedules over the year. A compressed work schedule is one that enables a full-time employee to work the equivalent of a full week in less than five full days. Job sharing refers to the accomplishment of one full-time job by two or more persons, each working part-time. The predominant alternative work schedule for women is part-time work. Temporary work allows flexibility in… [PDF]
(1985). The Anticipated Problems of Future Teachers of English. Prompted, in part, by a concern over the surprise and disillusionment many new teachers have expressed about the problems they encounter in the classroom, an instructor of an advanced writing class (required of all English majors and minors in the teaching curriculum) distributed to his students a five-page questionnaire/survey to see how they perceived their future roles. The questionnaire and the writing it produced served as a catalyst for discussion rather than as a quantitative end in itself. Specifically, it (1) highlighted important issues the students needed to think and talk about, (2) provided subjects for discussion, (3) gave the instructor a clearer sense of where his students thought they were heading and a sense of what they saw as their future teaching strengths and weaknesses, (4) indicated for students the kinds of problems they would be facing, and (5) gave the students a sense of assurance by knowing some of the problems that would lie ahead, by sharing ideas and… [PDF]
(1977). Vouchers for Creating Jobs, Education, and Training: VOCJET, An Employment-Oriented Strategy for Reducing Poverty. Special Report Series, 17. This paper presents a multi-pronged strategy for reducing poverty and unemployment by increasing the number of jobs for unskilled workers and raising their wages. The first component of this strategy is a marginal hours employment tax credit, similar to the recently enacted New Jobs Tax Credit. This would serve to generate an expansion in employment. The second component entails the distribution of vouchers for both training and employment. These vouchers would be given to hard-to-employ workers, such as veterans, the disabled, high school dropouts, ex-convicts and ex-addicts. They would, when turned over to the employer, result in the government sharing the initial year's wage costs with the employer. Families with children would be brought out of poverty by the third and fourth components of the author's proposed strategy. These are: the guarantee of an at least minimum wage job for every family's primary wage earner, and a family wage rate subsidy conditioned on family size that… [PDF]
(1978). Becoming a Woman in Rural Black Culture. The way in which girls develop into women in a rural black community in north central Florida, Edge Crossing, is described. This community is analyzed in terms of how different spaces are used, the rhythm of social activities as ordered by time and space, the separation of sex roles, the rites of intensification (such as ball games and religious services), and encounters with economic and educational systems external to the core of community meaning and resource allocation. Kinship and family organizations over time are also discussed. The flexibility of the social system in this community, the sharing of maternal roles and child care among related women, and interpersonal relationships of children with one another and with adults is described. A detailed analysis of female adolescent maturation is provided focusing upon rites of passage, courtship, and childbirth. Adolescence in Edge Crossing is viewed as a rite of passage in which girls are separated from childhood attachments….
(1978). The BSLC Project Annual Report 1978. Highlights of a Basic Skills Learning Centers (BSLC) Project are presented at the end of two full years of the three-year program, which was designed to provide nonurban elementary schools in 20 western states with resources to help teach basic reading and mathematics skills. A description of the participating schools (489 schools in 145 districts) reports school size, family income, and ethnic and language diversity of pupils. Graphs and narrative text summarize the achievement of the 95,000 students who participated in over 4,000 BSLC programs during 1977-78. Two measures of progress–the BSLC Pupil Attainment Tests and the amount of BSLC instruction completed–show a substantial proportion of students halting or reversing their slide into remedial status. A section on information sharing describes support materials and data collection forms for participating schools, a project newsletter, and a film designed to give school and community groups an impression of BSLC in action in…
(1980). Changing Family, Changing Workplace: New Research. CEW Research Series, Number 4. The studies in this volume highlight new research on the interaction of work and family and were presented at the 1978 conference, "Changing Family, Changing Workplace," held at the University of Michigan. The report on changes in the marriage role between 1957 and 1976 indicates that the family is still the core area of significance to the individual. At the same time, according to research on changes in sex-role attitudes of women, women's views of themselves have changed dramatically over the last two decades. The recent study of women who came to the University of Michigan between 1965 and 1973 concludes that women who have successfully moved into careers are happier with their lives than are women who have not. The profile of 1977 high school seniors reports the students' openness to sharing family and work responsibilities. The investigation of workplace stress shows that most such stress is moderated by a support system of family and friends. Overall, the volume…
(1971). An Inquiry Into Leased Space for School Administrations in Public Library Buildings. Letters were sent to all state departments of education or public instruction soliciting information and comments concerning the sharing of a portion of the public library building with other agencies such as public school administrations. Twenty-two replies were received from nineteen states. Over 50% of the respondents were in favor of the proposal under the following conditions: (1) the library keeps ownership of the building, (2) space lease is for a specified period of time and is recoverable by the library if needed, (3) the building is designed as a public library facility, (4) the library's functions would not be hampered, (5) the venture would help defray capital outlay and provide space for future needs, (6) access to school space be separate from library entrances, (7) utility and maintenance costs by shared, (8) sufficient parking be provided, (9) telephone services by separate and (10) availability of federal funds be investigated. The strongest opposition among the… [PDF]
(1972). Cost Analysis in Higher Education. Cost analysis is of interest for: its operating and management uses within each institution; its help in providing critical inputs for planning; making major changes in capacity, program structure, or institutional policies; its uses in obtaining comparisons between institutions which help in sharing insights about what targets to set for ourselves; and its valid basis in justifying to funding sources (public and private) what prices we charge for educational and institutional services. These different uses of cost analysis are discussed briefly. The author then discusses four important cost measurement issues: (1) what resources are being absorbed? (2) how does resources use vary with changes in the volume of activity? (3) is the pattern of resource use efficient? and (4) what is the trend over time? Illustrative examples of cost measures are included in the discussion, as are comments on the problems involved in attempting cost measurement. The paper concludes with a review of… [PDF]
(2000). Thinking Outside the (Classroom) Box: The Transition from Traditional to On-Line Learning Communities. The building of community generally means the creation of stronger, better realized writing; it is a strong argument for classes in which students learn and use all the writing tasks and principles, from pre-writing to authoring, and learn to trust each other enough to become vulnerable since sharing implies vulnerability. The question of how to build a community becomes key when faculty are faced with the demand to utilize technology, regardless of the reason for the demand. This paper gives an overview of how the Internet can be used by teachers and students and discusses online classes offered over the Internet, especially college/university composition classes. The paper outlines and describes some online composition classes offered at Rogers State University in Oklahoma. It provides extensive illustrations to help explain the system and to show the possibilities for creating an online writing community in which the teaching/learning community develops and interacts much as that… [PDF]