Reports a study of the impact of a new restrictive and punitive (grade reduction) attendance policy on high school students' attendance, scholastic achievement, behavior, and extracurricular participation. Variables of student age, IQ, and sex were analyzed. The punitive attendance policy was considered effective for certain students. Guidelines…

Creative interchange enables people to appreciate and absorb the experiences of others. Creative interchange, as one answer to the problem of selecting instructional materials in a diverse society, promotes thinking in a context of goodness (knowledge, love, and truth) which a broad spectrum of society can support. (Author/SJL)

The purpose of this paper is not to resolve issues associated with the encounter between philosophy and systematic planning, but rather to identify and delineate the source of fear and rejection of systematic planning by practicing educators. (Author/KC)

Five suggestions for initiating and enhancing dialogue between schools and the public are presented. Included are visitation programs for community and school board members, neighborhood meetings, media involvement, and involvement of students and teachers in public forums. (KC)

The word "curriculum" is derived from a verb meaning "to run a course," which well describes the frantic actions of educators to adopt each new educational fad. But the curriculum revisions of recent years have not justified their cost. It is time for educators to be more conservative. (Author/SJL)

Citing the grim world picture presented in "The Global 2000 Report to the President: Entering the Twenty-First Century," the author urgently calls for schools to restructure curriculum and to teach students to deal with crisis and change. (SJL)

The author argues that decision making is a critical skill for citizens in a democracy and considers strategies, particularly values clarification and cognitive moral development, which may be used to incorporate decision making into the citizenship curriculum. (SJL)

Suggests improvisational role-playing of fairy tales as a method of teaching social problem-solving skills to students. Presents a sample activity session based on the "Pied Piper of Hamelin." (SJL)

Describes a cooperatively developed student teacher orientation program in the Morristown, Tennessee schools. This model is not a finished product in the form of a packaged orientation, but a process model providing for different types of school-student teacher-university communication and feedback to evolve the orientation system. (Author/SJL)

The author examines four testing alternatives for minority group children who consistently do poorly on standardized tests: off-grade-level testing; not testing minority children at all; changing to an easier test; and criterion-referenced testing. He favors the last alternative. (SJL)

Presents a list of potential ways the administrator may affect the school climate toward encouraging change and innovation by helping to minimize staff stress and burnout. (Author/SJL)

Suggests that behavioral objectives and minimum competency testing can be effective for monitoring elementary students' mastery of basic skills, but to carry this system into the upper grades and other subject areas risks stultifying learning and inhibiting the free atmosphere that complex thinking and social education require. (SJL)

Since its beginnings in the 1960s, precollegiate law-related education has proliferated. This author looks at suggested causes for this movement and at some of the results supporters of law-related education hope to accomplish. He examines program commonalities and problems and speculates on the future. (Author/SJL)

Looks back on the emphasis in language development in the periods 1900 to 1917, 1917-1935, and the 1950s. Examines current developments in teaching English and suggests directions for the future. (RK)

Surveys over 20 television programs and films depicting school principals, finding three distinct views of the principal: the authoritarian, the bureaucrat, and the "numbskull." Suggests that the theory and practice of administration should be reconceptualized based on an "ethic of caring." (SR)