This paper, prepared for the September 5, 1968, National Education Association (NEA) Staff Conference, presents the NEA position, program, and strategy with regard to preservice and inservice teacher education and professional standards. Introductory remarks include a list of seven priorities which form the "framework of context of the NEA…

In 1966, Powel Elementary School initiated an ungraded system to discover if this program would meet the needs of its students and community. In 1967-68, an evaluation of this ungraded program was made to determine if the reading and arithmetic performance levels of the students at Powel were higher than those of a matched graded school. An…

Analysis of the characteristics of the teaching task yields a series of four propositions about the organization and administration of public schools. First, the personal orientation of the learner is a central consideration in teaching activity. The task of aiding the learner in his development is transactional and requires privacy for both the…

Since educational organizations must constantly change to meet the demands of a changing society, educational administrators might look to the social sciences for help in managing change and innovation. This paper argues that an organizational approach to educational innovation is likely to be more successful than an individualistic approach.…

This yearbook discusses mathematics instruction in the following countries: Austria, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia, the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and the United States. Much of the information was collected as a followup to the first International Commission on the Teaching of…

This document provides basic information on the Polish system of higher education. Following background information on the elementary-secondary system, various facets of the higher education are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the higher education system, expenditures, the Ministry of Higher Education, and the higher school. The higher school is…

The Center for Education Professions (CEP) coordinated contacts between the University of Wisconsin's College of Education and the public and private schools of the La Crosse area. The synchronization was accomplished through the grouping of 23 multiunit area schools into a network called "Area Movement for Educationally New Dimensions" (AMEND).…

The Fulton County four-quarter plan allows a secondary school to develop a program to meet the needs of each student while allowing students to participate in course selection and class scheduling. Because of the need for a quality program during the summer months, this program has been designed to meet the standards of the total school program…

This is the first part of a national study on science instruction in secondary schools of the United States. Questionnaires (copies appended) sent to the principal and to a randomly selected science teacher in 2,019 public secondary schools, selected by multi-stage random samples of Great Lakes and Far West region schools, provided information…

This report on school leadership is based primarily on 2-years of general and particular observation of the organization of schools made by the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio. The report also took into account several surveys and analyses by educators and other organizations concerned with public schools. The objective of…

In discussing what is meant by the concept "organization," the author raises the questions, "What is an organization that it can have such a thing as a goal?" and, assuming it appropriate to speak of organizational goals, "how do the goals of individuals bear on those of the organization?" The author submits that answers to these questions raise…

THE OPERATION OF BUENA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL IN SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR SYSTEM CHANGES WERE DESCRIBED IN THE THIRD OF A SERIES OF THREE REPORTS. OF GENERAL CONCERN WAS THE USE OF CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION IN GRADE 11 ENGLISH INSTRUCTION. THE STUDY WAS PART OF A GENERAL INVESTIGATION, USING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER SIMULATION…

A DESCRIPTION WAS PRESENTED OF A SIMULATION VEHICLE THAT WAS BEING DEVELOPED TO PERMIT MODELING ANY SCHOOL CONFIGUATION. THE MODEL WAS CONSIDERED AS HAVING TWO MAJOR PARTS--(1) THE ACTIVITY PROCESSOR AND (2) THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROCESSOR. THE ADDITION OF THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROCESSOR TO THE PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED SIMULATION VEHICLE PROVIDES…

Three sets of categories present a matrix that provides a basis for characterizing or defining any particular alternative school effort. Abstracts of five national reports recommending the offering of alternative public schools are also included. (Author/MLF)

Discusses the formal organization of the school in order to arrive at ways that schools might be organized for the fuller development of children. Accepting the key role of the principal, the article examines some leadership styles and indicates that the participative principal is generally to be preferred. (Author/IRT)