Discusses the development of comprehensive education in Russia with the focus on the comparison of ordinary versus specializing comprehensives. (RK)

Thirteen to fifteen year-old students from Denmark, Sweden, Italy, United States, Austria, Germany, and Great Britain were the subjects on this study of formal thought processes. Socioeconomic status, sex, and school organization provided additional categorization upon which the subjects were divided. Chi square analysis revealed some differences.…

Presents observations of a suburban high school, focusing mainly on the educational organization's use of time. Implications of the school's schedule are examined, followed by a discussion of the task of educating as perceived and defined in the school. Considers the study's implications for a model of educational organizations. (Author/JG)

Examines the processes involved in resource based learning, especially the availability of resources, school structure, and teacher role. (HOD)

Teacher involvement in decision making at the secondary school level was studied to analyze when, to what extent, and in which issues teachers should be involved. Implications which may benefit school administrators are discussed. (DF)

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.…

Discusses methods for introducing innovations in secondary education and describes author's conception of the new high school. (AA)

The author asserts that, in both the junior high school movement and the more recent middle school movement, the ninth grade was considered expendable. He suggests that it is time to resolve the bothersome questions as to whether the ninth grade belongs in the junior or senior high school. (SJL)

Argues that fieldworkers' difficulties in gaining access to public schools for research can be resolved by examining the schools' organizational logic. Compares public and religious schools to show how access problems and strategies to overcome them vary with schools' organizational features. Offers examples from research conducted at midwestern…

Thorough investigation of scheduling options is needed to facilitate the development of a tailor-made schedule for the small school. The traditional scheduling model usually only works well in urban or suburban schools. When this mass production model is imposed on small schools, student needs become secondary to the dictates of the schedule. The…

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…

Secondary education in the United Kingdom is gradually being reorganized along "comprehensive" lines, although there is still resistance to it. Stemming from the Butler Education Act of 1944, a tripartite secondary system emerged, comprised of the grammar (for superior students), the technical (for average and above average students),…

McGavock, H.S. in Nashville boasts specialized curriculum programs for careers, programs relevant to socioeconomic backgrounds, and community school programs achieved through team planning, team organization and team evaluation. (AF)

Analyzes an urban alternative school program to determine the extent to which the social relations underlying educational encounters were transformed. Found that students and teachers were both reproducing previously learned social definitions of roles and behaviors and altering the fundamental character of the social relations underlying…