The author suggests a return to the original concept of the principal as master teacher. He describes how the principal can create a school environment where learning is inquiry oriented and students are persons. (Editor/AS)

The author defines the concept of humanization and offers concrete examples of how education might become more humane. (AS)

Author discussed the efforts to redesign Boys High School, an all-male, academic school located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Author/RK)

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)

The key to clarity and accountability is to structure the schools so that their goal is clearly the purpose for which they are instituted. The concept of "adult competency" can clarify education's purposes. (Author/MLF)

The National Honor Societies, administered by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, continue to play an important role in our nation's junior and senior high schools. The author, a former director of the Societies, discusses their purposes. (Editor/RK)

Article gives details of the five priorities of the National Institute of Education. (GB)

Takes a hard look at middle-level education--where it has been, where it is, and where it should be going. (Editor/RK)