Author revealed the findings of Task Force '74, i.e., the problems American education will face in the next 25 years are problems the country has not dealt with before: declining school enrollment, aging teaching staff, and general decline of interest in education. (Editor/RK)

This survey of South Dakota teachers clearly indicates that teachers expect their principals to play an important leadership role in helping them improve instruction through inservice education. Effective inservice education programs include staff involvement in planning, strong commitment from the principal, and program evaluation. (Author)

Gives practical ideas for developing regional inservice programs for administrators. (GB)

People differ. This is a fact educators must acknowledge in planning inservice activities for both teachers and administrators, the author points out. Only when we design inservice programs to best fit the individual will we be able to help people achieve professional growth. (Editor)

The statement that "every teacher is a teacher of reading" is an ineffective cliche. However, cooperation among secondary school content and reading teachers can be achieved through establishing schoolwide reading teams, offering services and inservice education for content teachers, pairing reading and content teachers, publishing newsletters,…

In this article two factors of student discontent, along with partial solutions, are brought to our attention. (Editor)

Contends that the typical substitute teacher program retains antiquated stop-gap measures of little value to a school. Offers suggestions for recruitment tactics, inservice training, and evaluation. (Author/WD)

"NASSP Bulletin" editor Tom Koerner poses questions about the relative importance of international education to 10 people from several educational fields. Most agree that including an international perspective is not anti-American, but enables students to understand the issues confronting our country and the world. Curriculum development and…

Highlights the initial restructuring efforts begun by a Pennsylvania high school participating in the Coalition of Essential Schools. After several years of discussion, the staff undertook summer inservice training featuring a reading project, an ideal/reality exercise, a shadowing project, and a school visitation process. Choosing an…

This article tells the story of how a university can develop an on-site inservice program for teachers that deals with day-to-day, real-life issues of teaching. Such a program benefits both the university and school participants. (Editor)

Reports the results of a study examining the goal-setting process within the School Improvement Model, which evaluates relations between school goals and personal goals and between school goals and inservice interests. (MD)

School principals need more inservice training. This article outlines reasons and methods for developing an effective principal development program. (WD)

In-service programs can help teachers learn to deal more effectively with classroom discipline problems. (Author/MLF)

Reporting on a survey of southwestern school principals' public relations practices, the author implies that training in public relations activities is needed to improve public confidence in education. A table of survey findings is included. (MD)