For school administrators to facilitate impactful teacher professional development, a shift in thinking that goes beyond the acquisition of new skills and knowledge to helping teachers rethink their practice is required. Based on review of the professional development literature and our own continued observations of professional development, this…

Educational evaluation (Ed Eval) and professional learning communities (PLCs) are two of the nation's most predominant approaches to widespread instructional improvement. Yet key attributes of these reform initiatives are too often experienced by teachers as burdensome, or even detrimental, rather than helpful. The authors of this article contend…

Article discussed three views regarding history in the high school curriculum and its meaning for social studies. (RK)

Believing that there is substantial need to reappraise much of what's being done under the guise of innovation, the author hopes to stimulate administrators and teachers to evaluate programs in terms of actual contributions made to the teaching-learning experience. (Editor)

Article presented a planning outline, based on successful practice in several high schools, that can be of assistance to schools with limited or no career-oriented experiential programs and can also be employed constructively as a check list against present practice by schools whose action-learning programs have matured. (Author/RK)

Author recapped some major recommendations made at a conference ten years ago as the introduction to the chapters that follow in this 1974 issue of the Bulletin. (Editor/RK)

Appropriate as the final article in this look at junior high, middle, and intermediate schools claiming exemplary programs is a summary that points out where we are, what we have missed, and where we ought to be going in the Seventies. (Editor)

While the short term trend in education emphasizes subjects, the long term emphasis will be on the competencies themselves. There will be many more options for the learner and a fundamental transition to a learning system with a life-span curriculum in school and non-school settings. (DCS)

Reviews current student-assessment practices, highlighting alternative-assessment definitions and terminology, portfolio-assessment methods, holistic and analytic scoring rubrics, and improved traditional approaches. Educators must reconsider the wisdom of traditional practice, while giving a fair hearing to new approaches. Fundamental changes in…