Reports results of a survey of high school principals' attitudes toward school improvement recommendations. (MD)

It is self-defeating for a school staff to attempt to destroy informal student subgroup organizations, believes this author. He gives suggestions for helping minority groups to become more cohesive with the student body. (Editor)

Author offers some practical advice from his own experience as principal in five different high schools in a period of seven years. (GB)

Providing humane high school environment requires some philosophical and psychological foundations. Fundamental is the belief in circumstances that permit persons to grow and change at their own pace, but under sensitive and rational guidance. (Editor)

Literature is reviewed supporting the contention that teacher expectations are a crucial element of the educational climate that can influence students' motivation, measured ability, and achievement. (MJL)

Compares extracts from James Coleman's study of public and private schools to a smaller investigation by the author. (WD)

Lists the strengths of small schools and offers hints to improve the educational program in small schools. (JM)

After two semesters of using the four-block schedule, a Wisconsin high school experienced academic growth, improved grades and discipline, reduced stress, and a more personalized school environment. Interested schools should gain support, create a site-level decision-making model, demonstrate the need for change, clearly define restructuring…

School environment embodies not only the cultural norms and expectations as lived and experienced, but also that reality's perception by the school's "significant others." Article suggests schools must become self-renewing learning organizations committed to studying and mastering five disciplines: shared envisioning, personal mastery,…

Professional geographers are fairly well-paid and will be in greater demand in fields such as environmental management, location analysis, urban and regional planning, computer mapping, and geographic information systems. This article outlines career possibilities for college graduates in six broad geography curriculum areas. Includes three…

Describes a conceptual framework to measure various school climate aspects, including institutional integrity, initiating structure, consideration, resource support, principal influence, teacher morale, and academic emphasis. The Organization Health Inventory is a 44-item questionnaire asking educators to describe their behavior along a 4-point…

The School Discipline Climate Survey provides information about current levels of staff expectation and satisfaction for each of 13 subscales (attendance policies, discipline policies, staff training, communication, efficiency, parent support, due process/consistency, safe environment, discipline teamwork, strategic planning, penalties,…

Assistant principals are a neglected variable in the effective schools equation. The traditional conceptualization of assistant principals as disciplinarians still prevails, despite these administrators' usefulness as change agents, motivators, ethical models, community relations agent, care givers, and innovators. (MLH)

Student violence is an unwelcome reality that administrators cannot ignore. Although a literature review found a relationship among principals' leadership behavior, school climate, and school violence, its strength and nature are unclear. The issue's complexity may discount efforts to generalize about these relationships apart from explanations…

The two models in Florida's Educational Quality Benchmark System represent a new way of thinking about developing schools' work culture. The Quality Performance System Model identifies nine dimensions of work within a quality system. The Change Process Model provides a theoretical framework for changing existing beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors…