This article presents the Spanish words of Greek origin that include the ending "cracia" and their meanings. (NCR)

Disagreements over budgeting are often resolved by using political power. A critique of definitions of political behavior is presented and an alternative is proposed that is applicable to groups and individuals and that addresses both the intentions and effects of political action. (Author/LBH)

The term "alternative work schedules" encompasses any variation of the requirement that all permanent employees in an organization or one shift of employees adhere to the same five-day, seven-to-eight-hour schedule. This article defines staggered hours, flexible working hours (flexitour and gliding time), compressed work week, the task system, and…

Presenting national statistics on single-parent families, this article illustrates the need for serious study of this phenomenon, suggesting that changing divorce laws, increased single-parent adoptions, and an increase in the number of supportive services for single-parent families are contingencies having significant bearing upon the…

This study seeks to determine factors affecting student interpretation of the connective "or." The conclusion is that unless instructed otherwise, a majority of students lacking mathematical sophistication will assign an exclusive meaning to the ambigious connective. (MN)

Defines evaluation and demonstrates that the general concept of evaluation can provide significant information for both the assessment of personnel as well as the assessment of the curriculum that is currently in place in the schools. Describes five steps that should be used in any evaluation. (Author/RK)

Discusses what is meant by the word "craftsmanship" and suggests that it must be re-evaluated from the traditional concept teachers have been expounding to develop a new conceptual framework more closely allied with the industrial technical society of today. (Editor/TA)

Discusses arguments supporting a redefining of the concepts of teaching and research presented within a sociology of knowledge framework. Includes the implications of these "new" definitions for teacher education and the identification of the types of research relevant to teachers. (Author/RK)

Attempts to familiarize the reader with the current extent of use of the legal assistant, to analyze the major sources of attorney resistance to the more extensive use of the legal assistant, and to make predictions of the extent to which legal assistants will be utilized within the next ten years. (Author/RK)

Examined are approaches to the problem of defining the severely/profoundly handicapped, and proposed is a definition based on service need with emphasis on teacher competencies. (CL)

Reviews some basic definitions, concepts, and principles of evaluation. Also discusses the sequence of steps that are necessary if evaluation of teachers is to be effective and the variables that affect the learning process, considered the major factor in evaluating teachers. (Author/RK)

Inquires whether it is feasible, useful and profitable to conceive moral education through the teaching of virtues. Considers some problems involved in presenting virtues. (Author/RK)

The author wonders (1) if a very wide definition of career education is equivalent to no definition at all, (2) if there are easier ways of getting career education information and of disseminating that information, and (3) if local support for career education can be developed without attention-getting, federally funded programs. (MJB)