The development of effective team teaching is seen as an answer to many school problems. This author tends to agree, and adds a number of conditions that remind us that it may be easy to say'', but not so easy to do''. (Author)

Explores the impact of the Central Office Staff (COS) on educational decisionmaking in a medium-sized city from an insider's'' perspective and sets forth several testable hypotheses. (Author)

This article presents the findings of a large-scale educational survey on pupil perception of their school environment and suggests how teachers and administrators can assess the environmental climate in their own schools. (Author/RK)

Findings indicate that white examiners do not depress IQ scores of black children. (MB)

It was concluded that previous explanations of visual exploration or stimulus preference have been oversimplified, and studies on the whole have failed to take into account a crucial interaction between sex and age variables. (Authors)

Reports studies of bi-racial groups of schoolboys working on tasks of cooperative problem-solving in an integrated setting, designed to determine if status can be based on contributions to the task in terms of motivation and competence regardless of race. (JM)

Reports degree of relationship between assessments of teachers' procedural and verbal behavior made independently by teacher self report, student checklists, and the observations of an outside observer. (AL)

Reports the results of a study on the most assertive member in integrated small groups composed of two black and two white junior high school boys, a study which attempted to determine if black assertives were treated differently and behaved differently than white assertives. (JM)

Results are interpreted in terms of role theory and sibling rivalry, and have application for school practice. (Author)

It was suggested that working-class mothers less frequently believed that their infants were capable of communicating with other people, and hence felt it was futile to attempt to interact with them verbally. (Authors)

Purpose of the study was to determine whether teacher-student interaction and the effectiveness of using certain teaching strategies were functions of selected personality characteristics of the laboratory teachers. (Author)