This publication is designed for use with local school district staff members to provide information concerning the development of differentiated staffs on the basis of functional requirements. It is quasi-programed to provide stimuli to search for new alternatives to staff organization. After defining the terms, the authors consider the various…

The Lansing School District planning staff is charged with providing systemic plans and options and with assisting every building and department in developing its own plans. (Author/MLF)

Surveys the work and theoretical orientation of Charles Judd, an educator who maintained that social psychology is the basis for educational psychology. (GO)

An information retrieval-feedback procedure for elementary school faculty in a program of professional development. (Author)

Discussed are three themes related to changes taking place in secondary school education in Great Britain. The themes considered are curriculum, assessment, and school organization. (RH)

Looks at both the eight-four and the middle school plans of school organization and concludes that the latter is preferable, since it represents a spark of reform within the status quo. (FL)

Because of enrollment decline, seven of the 31 Eugene, Oregon, elementary schools were closed during the past four years. Criteria for closing, present conditions, and uses of the facilities are described. (MLF)

Explains the matrix organizational structure and describes conditions or pressures that lead an administrator to consider the matrix approach. Provides examples of how it operates in a department or school. (PD)

A wide variety of charter schools has emerged since the first charter was granted in 1991. Six distinct models include schools managed by grassroots organizations, schools focused on special student populations, schools centered around distance learning or home learning, business-managed schools, schools structured as teacher cooperatives, and…

Comments on Management in Education,' (JME V1 n2, Feb 72) and The Function of the Head of a School: a Management Approach,' this issue (AA 515 462). (CB)