Inequality of educational opportunity, as indicated by the effect of father's occupational status on years of schooling completed, is greater in France than in the U.S. the difference is accounted for by school structural variables, indicating the importance of structure for inequality of opportunity. (Author)

Procedures permit grouping departments on variables that provide an equitable basis for departmental funding. The series of steps is outlined whereby the financial significance of various process and role variables can be determined. (Editor/LBH)

This paper explores how high schools, through their structures and organizations, may influence their students' decisions about whether to stay in school until graduation or drop out. Traditional explanations for dropout behavior have focused on individual students' social background and academic behaviors. What high schools do to push out or hold…

The personalizing of the Language Arts instructional program at the Concord High School in Wilmington, Delaware is discussed in terms of a) department organization, b) classroom organization, c) instructional materials, and d) special considerations related to individualizing instruction. (HMD)

Here are eight precepts (overdue for destruction) which often provide deleterious effects on what we are trying to do in education. (Editor)

The basis of this investigation is formed upon the current dilemma of public education and the educational climate surrounding it. (RK)

Turning from the curriculum aspects, this writer focuses upon several administrative techniques of schools responding to NASSP's annual survey of exemplary programs. (Editor)

Article presented a report of an investigation of adolescent group activity in a secondary school. (Author/RK)

A justification of a city-wide program offering educational options in elementary grades explains that the style of education will be differentiated, not what will be learned. (KM)

Discusses how organizational development, a method of coping with continuous change, may be helpful in accomplishing educational goals. (Editor/RK)

Purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among specified dimensions of a bureaucratic model and to relate the findings to bureaucratic theory. (Authors)

Outlines procedures for constructing a definitive model which conceptualizes the nongraded system. (Author)

Author feels educational change can best be effected by reorganizing schools into a changing series of problem solving groups'' and deemphasizing the department structure.'' (Author/SP)

Paper attempts to show how students can be given the opportunity to select their instructors for valid educational reasons; provides a model showing how students can select the way they will be taught; and how teachers can still do what they feel is necessary to accomplish their teaching objectives. (Author/CB)