This article was prepared as a starter for Ralph Nader's campaign for better nutrition in school cafeterias. The ideas suggested were not too costly and were designed to provide sound nutrition for students. (Editor/RK)

As educators find themselves under increasing pressure to make student progress manifest, they become more and more subject to the allure of specialists, persons reputedly able to offer inspiration and guidance in effective new programs. Provides some advice for the specialists who might not have asked the teachers that they advise just how they…

This article presents guidelines to the teacher for planning and conducting a field trip. (SJL)

It is the purpose of this article to offer some suggestions for improving the quality of tape recordings. The suggestions given here will be directed specifically toward cassette recording, but may also be applied to other tape formats. (Author)

Efforts on the part of administrators and boards of education to develop a rational evaluation procedure, coupled with intelligently conceived criteria to measure performance of administrators, would tend to remove much of the potential trauma that now exists in administrator evaluation. Discusses who should be responsible for the development of…

A flexible, point contract system is described which maximizes the advantages of a criterion-referenced contract system while eliminating some of the disadvantages of standard grade contracts. This model has been used by the author in a variety of high school and college courses. (Author/SJL)

Openness is a condition in a relationship which depends on certain traits. Discusses the traits necessary to encourage the establishment of the condition of openness and to support this condition as it appears within the relationship. (Author/RK)

This article attempted to offer a basic guide for implementing the concept of student evaluation of teachers. (Author/RK)

Thirteen suggestions are made to the teacher on the establishment of classroom control; the use of various methods of punishment, including grades and extra homework; and ways of dealing with recurrent behavior problems. (SJL)

Kohlberg's findings that morality is a developmental process and that moral growth occurs in proportion to the individual's participating in moral problem solving make it necessary for the educator to understand the child's level of moral growth and to help facilitate this growth. Suggests some ways to aid in this growth. (Author/RK)

Teachers can help students restore the human dimension in the learning process through a wide variety of activities. Newspaper stories, magazine articles, and television news coverage are excellent sources for the language arts teacher's efforts to stimulate student awareness of their feelings and environment. (Author/RK)

A superintendent of schools recommended steps to establish a positive interview discussion with school critics in an attempt to turn these critics into effective public relations tools. (Author/RK)