ASCHOOL COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF THE ALBIA ...

accountability measures.!
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The development of goals, both short and long term, by a crosssection
of those affecting and affected by the educational process is an
approach to improving school-community relations.
In many instances goals
of education have been developed, but in most cases these goals were
developed by professionals, or at best by board members and staff members
of the local school district.
In the research review there were very few
instances in which the community in general had been used to determine
educational goals or priorities. In Skokie, Illinois, after the first
year of operation with a PPBS model, a district-wide goals committee wBs
created that included community leaders, parents, teachers, students, and
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board members.
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Moore
indicated the need for community involvement when he stated,
the leadership was faulty, unimaginative, and grossly out of tune
with the hopes and desires of a community.1I3
Owens was more succinct when
he
said, "Like all other organizations, the school exists primarily to
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attain a set of goals."
How does one develop goals?
What methods of goal development are
aVBilable? Goal statements and objectives were examined. A comprehensive
Learned
~'feachers Can Help Promote Reasonable Accountabllitv, II Sounding
X (April, 1973), 1.
2Wesley Gibbs, Gustave Rath, and Arthur Kent, "PPBS: What We've
in One Year," Nation's Schools, LXXXIV (November, 1969), 43.
ollis A. Moore, Jr., "The Ferment in School Administration,1I
Behavioral Science and Educational Administl'ation, S~xt~-third.Year~ook
of the study of Education, Part II, ed.Daniel E. Grlfflth (Chlcago.
University of Chicago Press, 1964), p. 16.
"Rober t GOwens Organizational Behavior in Schools
Cliffs, New J8rS8~: Pren~ice:H~ll, Inc., 1970), p. 61.
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