An evaluation of the Eynsham County Primary School, uses the seven criteria suggested by the Spodek early childhood education analysis framework: assumptions, goals, curriculum, method, style, organization, and effectiveness. (CS)

Offers eight steps for administrators to follow to develop cohesiveness among a school faculty and thus foster positive student attitudes toward school. The eight steps are divided among three distinct strategies: developing common goals, reexamining organizational structure, and evaluating school leadership. (Author/WD)

In the Netherlands, the constitutional freedom of education offers the opportunity for the growing number of Muslims to establish state-funded Islamic schools. At the moment there are 46 Islamic primary schools; a number of schools are in the process of being established and there is still a need for an additional 120 such schools. Right from the…

The potential exists in schools nationwide to create a high quality system of education. But schools are not operating as a coherent system. While most educators and citizens are ready to act and to improve education, decisionmakers do not realize the need for a new paradigm in education. Many successful schools serve as examples of the benefits…

The period of stress which colleges and universities currently face is analyzed in terms of environmental and organizational factors. (Editor)

The belief that the similarities between business administration and public administration are more significant than the differences led in the 1950s to the development of schools teaching administration as a generic process. This paper reassesses eight tenets underlying the generic model for administrative education, drawn from the work of early…

Schools are essentially human systems; without people they are nothing but wood, concrete, and paper. Yet, the people who make up schools -- professionals, parents, service personnel, and students -- often form into ineffective and poorly coordinated groups, much in the way that employees in the bureaucracies of industry and government become…

After long experience as a teacher and head teacher in Devonshire, the author was appointed as Advisor for Primary Education for North and West Devon in 1975. He writes here of his experience in moving to flexible forms of grouping through cooperative teaching as head of Blue Coat Pilton at Barnstaple. (Editor/RK)

British comprehensive schools have been criticized by the left for failing to provide equality for everyone and by the right for sacrificing academic standards for equality. Such simultaneous criticisms suggest that the schools have been assigned either impossible or contradictory objectives, but have managed to achieve a reasonable compromise.…

Article presented a description of a rapidly growing kind of academic "service center", and suggestions to faculty for its use. (Editor/RK)

This article on changing schools advances five hypotheses for why effective educational change comes only when schools reconstruct themselves. Relates these hypotheses to a model'' school the author would like to build in which school is organized into phases instead of grades, teams instead of teachers, and in which performance evaluation on a…

A case study of an innovative comprehensive school in Britain revealed both traditional and progressive tendencies in the headmaster's and the school's goals. The researchers label this duality the Janus Syndrome. The article concludes that the traditional and progressive can coexist to the benefit of all concerned. (Author/WD)

Argues that the divisive departmental structure of American universities and the resulting torpidity and negative attitudes among faculty are limiting the capacity of universities to transmit culture to their students. (DMM)

New Jersey's Education Commissioner outlined a controversial blueprint for future school organization. (Editor/RK)

This article provided a description of a particular scheme initiated by the City of Birmingham's education committee. (Editor/RK)