This study located significant patterns within the thought systems of sixty-three influential leaders in three southern California school districts and discussed the implications for school policy. (Author/SF)

Investigated attitudes of Afro-American students in special-admission programs at Temple University in Philadelphia and Glassboro State College in southern New Jersey towards Black Students, Professors, Name of Institution, Afro-American Courses, White Students, and Me-Myself. (Author/JM)

Examines how the predictive power of student background and school climate variables might vary in accounting for student achievement outcomes among four urban high schools. Argues that schools are socializing students to different expectations about desired behaviors. (Author/BE)

Regardless of the direction of pupils' preferences (humanistic or custodial) the more closely pupils' perceptions of their teachers' actual behavior approximated their conception of ideal teacher behavior, the more positive were their attitudes toward teacher and school. (Author)

Parents clearly distinguish between the schools their children attend and the school system as a whole. In evaluating the former, parents consider the quality of teaching and the work of the principal as primary factors. They use other factors (discipline and basic skills) to judge the latter. Implications are discussed. (BJV)