Most students have the competence and the right to make significant decisions concerning their own learning if they are provided appropriate leadership, and high school principals must assume responsibility for initiating that leadership and ensuring its continuity. (Author)

The students at Dwight D. Eisenhower High School in Washington, Michigan, have been using a type of scheduling that allows them a choice of classes and teachers. Describes the process which consists of a pre-scheduling work-up and a college-type scheduling. (RK)

Describes a successful program, a parent involvement weekend, implemented in an urban high school. (LD)

Describes a program based on student-teacher discussion groups that resulted in improved student conduct and increased student participation. (IRT)

Provides results of a survey concerning student activities programs in Illinois public high schools. (JM)

Author described a program designed to provide additional help in the school district by using the knowledge, skills, and expertise of parent volunteers. (Author/RK)

Internship programs are nothing new - John Dewey advocated the use of the community as educator at the turn of the century. But a program based in New York City, where students rub shoulders with leaders throughout the country, is special to its 2,000 participants. (Editor)

Chesterton High School, which has used both computer scheduling and student self-scheduling, finds the latter method produces the most satisfactory results. In response to Richard Tilwick's article in the November 1975 Bulletin (Student Self-Scheduling: An Unintentional Deception), F. Edward Wall explains why his students and teachers favor…

In order to help high school students obtain a working knowledge of law, a course was designed at the William A. Wirt High School, in Gary, Indiana that provided not only an awareness of the law but also a positive view of law in general. (Author/RK)

This paper presents a model using an educational strategy employed in a New Hampshire high school and suggests that this model, and other learning models, can be more widely applied in social problem solving, particularly before sanctions based on medical and legal models are employed. (Editor)

The continuum of service models presented here is a result of analyzing the various ways in which schools participating in cooperative endeavors relate their student-community involvement activities to the total academic curriculum. (Editor/RK)

Dejuvenilizing the high school by minimizing the custodial relationship between school and student calls for innovative alternatives in school scheduling, in providing students with off campus educational opportunities, and in meeting their needs for work and service experience. (Author)

Explains how schools, regardless of size, can provide ongoing and innovative programs for professional growth. (JM)

Describes three social studies projects tackled by students at the Bronx High School of Science: an extracredit activity on doing business in Manhattan, a citizen-participation project on fixing the United States, and a cooperative activity to identify problems common to Tokyo and New York City. Using the Internet to solve real-world problems…

The startup of 465 federal 21st Century Community Learning Center Programs has propelled the idea of school/community collaboration onto national and local agendas. Collaborative action teams in the Southwest have identified three factors that encourage collaboration: the organizing group's commitment and diversity, administrative and campus…