ABC Unified School District in Cerritos, a suburb of Los Angeles, has made significant changes in management. The District includes teachers in a participative decision-making structure that has provided them a sense of empowerment. Responsibility for implementing changes still remains in the hands of the local schools. Includes a sidebar…

Presents a silly test of current and former TV shows. (MD)

A review of research on adolescent suicide found that many of the studies are of children who have attempted suicide (such children differ considerably from children who kill themselves). Also reviews prevention programs and suicide warning signs in children. Includes a resource panel listing. (MD)

From a series of studies to determine the everyday problems of American teachers, this article lists five unfulfilled goals that teachers seem to share and three ways to meet them. (Author/WD)

Outlines 10 resolutions for teachers to follow that will help them empower themselves and continue to influence the course of educational reform in the year ahead. (MD)

Discusses schools that have successfully accepted students with AIDS, describes recent court cases involving suits against schools refusing admittance to students with AIDS, and reviews school policies about AIDS cases in the schools. Includes discussion of the Center for Disease Control's AIDS guidelines as well as sidebars with the incidence of…

Provides a fictionalized version of a possible discussion by the justices of the United States Supreme Court prior to their 1986 ruling on a school board member's appeal of a district court opinion permitting a student club to meet on school premises for Bible readings and prayer meetings. (MD)

Outlines 10 areas in which adjustments might have to be made when a teacher or administrator opts for a career change. Argues that values, interests, and attitudes are often just as important as salary and must be considered in a decision to change careers. (IRT)

Presents one school's criteria for mainstreaming and its procedures for implementing mainstreaming. Emphasis is placed on determining that the student being placed in a regular classroom has demonstrated the academic and social skills needed to profit from such placement. (IRT)

Outlines steps that must be taken for a school to implement a Walkabout experiential learning program in a community. (IRT)

Argues for a "zero-base" revision of school curricula in order to weed out poorly functioning components. Outlines procedures for carrying out such a revision at both the district and building levels. (WD)

Provides administrators with 14 tips on job hunting. (IRT)

To help replenish educators' supply of ideas, "Kappan" editors suggest several books for summer reading, including many noncurrent titles not specifically on education such as Peter Novick's "That Noble Dream," Joy Kogawa's "Obasan," Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Kate Chopin's "The Awakening," Willa Cather's "My Antonia,"…

Outlines the Madison Workshop Program for staff development, operated by the local school system in cooperation with a local college. This unique collaboration funds nationally known educators to present workshops for local teachers. (MD)

Lists superintendent characteristics boards of education most often specified as desirable and suggests behavioral patterns that will help develop the four qualities most sought by boards. (IRT)