This report focused on the New York University School of Education, Health, Nursing, and Arts Professions as it completed its first year under an administrative structure that recognized the distinct professional concerns of its four divisions. (Editor/RK)

Author compared the comprehensive reorganization of French secondary education through the creation of Colleges d'Enseignement Secondaire with developments in this country over the past twelve years. (Editor/RK)

Today's adolescent is isolated from the adult world and deprived of the secure framework of beliefs, morals, and conventions needed to guide socialization. In order to achieve the modern educational goal of preparing students for coping with the real world, the peculiar and particular nature of the earlier stages of adolescence must inform all…

This issue of the "Review of Educational Research" attempts to cover the larger issues and to organize around some of the problem lines of instructional materials in educational media and technology. In its four chapters, each with a different author, the research review encompasses five broad areas: the design and selection of media, utilization…

At the 1972 annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, a group of communication students and scholars met to discuss what their departments are designed to accomplish. The purpose of this Action Caucus was to develop a model mission statement for communication departments located in urban settings. Three conclusions are warranted from…

Focus of this study of leadership is the West Philadelphia Community Free School designed as an alternative within public school education in one of Philadelphia's predominantly black school districts. (Authors/MB)

Reviews 1980s educational reform philosophies, characterizing this decade as driven more by debate than by change. The first wave's emphasis on the utilitarian value of education has endured in third-wave philosophy calling for business-oriented graduates to help reassert America's economic preeminence. A fourth wave envisions expanding…

Discusses the structural-functional organization of schools concluding that schools as organizations should be looked at from the sociological point of view, as agencies of socialization and agencies of moral control, and therefore should be capable of such tasks as utilizing resources and ascribing roles to participants to achieve the over-all…

This article describes curriculum and organizational changes carried out during a three-year period at a college of further education. (Editor)

The purpose, administration, organization, and clientele of People's Universities is described, as is their function in the Soviet educational and political systems. (AG)

Administrative operational objectives for funding year 1981-82 are presented to inform Marshall University's administrators, faculty, and students of the direction of current management activities. Stated objectives of the administrative offices that report directly to the president and those of the Provost's Office and the administrative offices…

Although complex organizations pursue more than one goal, one goal can be considered paramount. Adopted as a result of administrative disenchantment with the cultural rigidities of the 6-year high school organization, the middle school was established as a special unit for the education of early adolescents in a protective psychological…

Adapted from the Preface to Perspectives on Management Systems Approaches in Education: A Symposium,'' Educational Technology Publications, 1973. (CB)