Describes some innovative teaching methods, including pupil grouping and team teaching, that can help humanize the elementary school. (LN)

Administrators of schools can best exercise their responsibility to the public by keeping open well-run channels of communication. (CK)

Argues that the education voucher experiment proposed by the United States Office of Economic Opportunity promises benefits especially for the poor, but that support for it will be hard to come by. (RJ)

Means by which the high school can provide for its own self-renewal. (Author)

Writing from experience and involvement in organizing a school where there are humane opportunities for learning, authors say it's easier to help the faculty develop needed skills for humanization than to implement a structure which encourages attitudinal changes. (Editor)

Utilizes Easton's political systems framework to analyze existing structural inadequacies and to support a number of alternative mechanisms for coping more effectively with politically energetic and ideologically divergent educational demands. (Author)

In Las Vegas, Nevada, a complete high school program available during early evening hours provides double use of facilities and new opportunities for students. (Author)

Discusses the recent growth of free schools" and the need for change; makes a plea for alternatives to traditional schooling. (AJ)

The present level of participation by Canadian teachers in the school decision-making process is undesirably low. (CK)

Coprincipals carry the authority and status of the principal's office equally. The coprincipalship at Lompoc (California) Valley Middle School has functioned successfully for two years. Each principal shares in decision-making and has contacts with both successful and struggling students. (Author/MLF)

Describes the "schools-within-a-school" elementary program at Broken Ground School in Concord, New Hampshire, where parents and teachers are involved in choosing the learning environment best suited for each child, either the more formal "Conventional School" or the more individualized "Continuous Progress School."…

Analyzes Tanzania's efforts to modify the secondary curriculum by unifying academics and productive work. Teachers have not adopted the new approach. The author suggests that teachers' reactions are affected by the relationship between schools and the division of labor, difficulties of specifying what unity means, and problems of school…

Highlights the findings of a study by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development on the effects of declining enrollment on instructional and supervisory programs, reviews the ramifications of P.L. 94-142, and suggests new instructional arrangements for coping with an era of retrenchment. (Author/WD)

The ways in which process consultation is used to provide technical assistance to schools are discussed. (JD)