This booklet is the fourth in a series of "hot topic" reports, that address current educational concerns. The booklet examines questions relating to grade configurations, its purpose being to increase awareness and understanding of the issues surrounding grade span. It explores the ways that schools have addressed concerns associated…

Propositions made about short-course comprehensive schools and about neighborhood schools were tested in an investigation of all the 12-16 schools in a single LEA characterized by high levels of educational expenditure and an egalitarian ideology. (Editor)

Article presented a look at the characteristics of both graded and non-graded schools and how they stack up as a means of educating today's children for tomorrow. (Editor/RK)

Author makes a few observations on the necessities for successful team teaching. (RK)

Outlines a program that organizes students in heterogeneous classrooms, grouping them by ability only in specialized subject areas thereby allowing students a more realistic approach to learning and life. (Author/RK)

An evaluation of the Eynsham County Primary School, uses the seven criteria suggested by the Spodek early childhood education analysis framework: assumptions, goals, curriculum, method, style, organization, and effectiveness. (CS)

This study examined teachers' sense of powerlessness within two distinctive school organizational structures. Definite patterns of teacher sense of powerlessness were uncovered within Authoritarian and Collegial school structures. In addition, a majority of teachers in Authoritarian schools experienced a greater sense of powerlessness than did…

Author believes that television has great potentialities for helping schools meet the current criticisms being leveled against them. (Editor)

Article provides an overview of the various alternative programs for schools, pointing out their specific advantages. Examples are given of some of the country's outstanding programs. (Editor)

Discusses innovative teacher education programs designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of present day public schools. (Author/RK)

To avoid the dehumanization that can result from too much emphasis on efficiency alone, PPBS must conform with the pre-existing school environment, with its personal, political, social, and economic dimensions. (Editor)

Article suggests constructive changes principals can make to encourage students and teachers to enjoy their educational environment. (RK)

The principal should test the limits of his school system's diversity by taking a variety of desirable actions without first consulting his superiors, according to the author. He advocates positive action on the part of principals rather than reaction to external stimuli. (Editor)

Whatever the plan, the point is to design within the educational structure a process which can respond to today's needs and the probably different needs or different situations of tomorrow. (Author)

Discussion of a report, published as Organisation in Multiracial Schools,'' sponsored by the Department of Education and Science of Great Britain, April 1970 to September 1972, to determine the success of the school program for immigrant students with particular reference to language learning and teaching. (RS)