Reviews the literature on women administrators in education. Describes an ethnographic study of 25 women administrators conducted to determine the salient organizational processes which enable people to advance in administration, and how these processes affect women's aspiration formation and career mobility. Looks at three stages of career…

Assesses which organizational structures and climate variables were related to agency success in placing developmentally disabled children for adoption. One hundred ninety-nine public and private agencies in the United States and Canada participated in the study. Overall, decisiveness was an important agency variable in placement. Variables for…

Budgeting and resource allocation systems that work for one institution may not work well for another. Each institution's procedures should meet its specific requirements and characteristics, even when that means adapting or drawing on other systems. (MSE)

Job satisfaction of school psychologists practicing in West Virginia was studied using a modified version of the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire. Job satisfaction increased as (1) salary increased, and (2) the supervisor's level of training reached the level of the practitioner and the area of training more closely approached that of a school…

The British experience with liberal arts and education is reviewed, and reasons are given for the U.S. difficulty in nurturing the liberal arts. Two aspects of America's education are criticized: the scholar's detachment from society, and the constrictive framework of support for scholarship. (MSE)

The president of Wesley College, Delaware, offers management guidelines for coping in a period of severe financial stress which include involve the board, examine past audit reports, talk to personnel, install an energy control system, and examine business office computer sheets and ledger books. (MLF)

Examines sources of stress and coping mechanisms for teachers in the 30-45 year age group in the state of Victoria, Australia. Strategies for relieving stress should focus on the relationship between teachers and the organizations within which they operate. (MD)

Briefly describes use of off-site staffing--indexers, abstractors, editors--in the production of two major databases: Management Contents and The Computer Data Base. Discussion covers the production sequence; database administrator; off-site indexer; savings (office space, furniture and equipment costs, salaries, and overhead); and problems…

Presents four teachers' reasons for working in public or private schools: (1) the warmth and concern among teachers, parents, and administrators at a private school; (2) the needs of low ability students in a public high school; (3) the greater openness at public schools; and (4) the natural beauty surrounding a public farm school in Pennsylvania.…

Describes use of quality circles (QC)--small groups of employees who meet regularly and voluntarily to identify, solve, and implement solutions to work-related problems--as a form of participative decision making, highlighting QC concept, establishing a QC, introduction process, management support, benefits, evaluation, and shortcomings. Thirteen…

There is no good method of regulating the educational system based on specific, numerical measurements of labor requirements, and it will be important to integrate uncertainty into future forecasts. Adjustments in demand and supply of educated labor in Norway require a decentralized authority structure providing incentives for institutions and the…

Presented is an elementary view of the physical nature of air. Included are ideas to help students in visualizing the physical properties of air and the atmosphere. (SL)

The basic functions of teacher centres now are to help teachers in curriculum development and solving classroom problems, to serve as information centres, to back up resources of schools, and provide social and professional interchange between teachers; it is hoped they will grow to provide broader views of the philosophy and practice of teaching.…

A high school and a middle school share core facilities in a building equipped with all-electric heating and cooling systems. (MLF)

The author advocates that a single management posture be adopted by collegiate executives responsible for the performance of non-academic employees, and describes three ways such a posture benefits all concerned: individual worker performance improves; supervisors become more effective; and the school gains an advantage. (LBH)