Briefly describes the process of textbook selection and offers some guidelines to help board members who may serve on selection committees. (IRT)

Explains how students should dress for school if they are to be comfortable when the schools conform to the 65-degree maximum temperature setting ordered by the government. (IRT)

Presents six suggestions that may help a board control the costs of medical insurance coverage for employees. (IRT)

Outlines a formal, specific, and structured method a board can use in evaluating a superintendent. (IRT)

Board members who want to keep educational quality high must define quality and then use the staff as a resource, reassess the educational program, and include teachers, administrators, and students in a continuing dialogue on the schools and how to improve them. (Author/IRT)

The author urges, among other consideration, that strikes be avoided when possible, that major decisions be made before the strike begins, that the district cultivate good relations with the media, and that unity among the board members be maintained. (IRT)

The author provides eight pointers on how the smallness of a community can be used to work for administrators and board members. (IRT)

Provides guidelines culled from the experience of school systems that have used parent volunteers successfully in their assessment programs. (Author/IRT)