The purpose of this article is to explore the current situations and trends in junior high/middle school mathematics. To assist in this effort, an organizational scheme based on an instructional-process model of goals, objectives, methods, materials, and evaluation will be used. (Author)

The intent of the authors here is to assist professors of school administration by presenting a planning framework in which the type and level of learning desired can be matched with the most appropriate and effective processes for attaining that learning. (Editor)

Making several changes in concert was one reason, this writer maintains, why an Ohio middle school made forward strides in providing successful innovative programs for its emerging adolescents. (Editor)