The effective and timely use of the Sunset Review process enabled Florida specialist-level school psychologists to become eligible for private practice licensure. By examining the history of Florida school psychology licensure, other state associations may better understand how social, economic, and political forces made this legislation possible.…

This paper addresses efforts to monitor and control the applications of behavioral technology in human services. A brief review of accountability from a behavioral perspective is followed by viewpoints on the rights of clients subject to behavioral interventions. Three state/provincial efforts at creating policy and guidelines are examined.…

This discussion of the development of library reference service standards and guidelines for service measurement highlights the work of the American Library Association (ALA) Committee on Standards, guidelines adopted by ALA's Reference and Adult Services Division, and efforts of state, public, and university libraries. Fourteen references are…

Suggests way of introducing books to children and lists resources containing ideas for promoting reading. (RH)

Presents a rationale for family service professionals to communicate through the mass media to improve the functioning of agencies and contribute to the welfare of the community. Offers detailed suggestions for working with the media, i.e., improving relations, acting as a news source, and participating in broadcast interviews. (Author/WAS)

Presents 10 guidelines that staff developers can utilize when assisting teachers in teaching thinking skills to students. Provides guidelines for both practical and theoretical guidance for developing workshop materials, conducting training sessions, and conducting follow-up activities. (AH)

Describes the procedure used by the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Public Schools to deal with censorship problems. (JL)

Uses results from a 1980 cross-Canada survey to develop a chart of administrator characteristics. Provides insights on being a good principal in terms of thinking, feelings and interrelationships, outward behavior characteristics, and implementing change. (AH)

Argues that effort should be made by public agencies to keep abreast of new constitutional cases as well as accepted procedures and practices in the community. In this way, agencies will minimize the likelihood of having to answer for their actions as defendants in a lawsuit brought by a present or former client. (MP)

Offers 10 steps to follow in becoming a successful principal that are especially aimed at those new to their positions. (WD)

Offers guidelines for instituting an effective public relations program at the building level. Includes a checklist for evaluating a school's present program. (WD)

Suggests guidelines on how media can be used by religious educators and others in fostering youth's personal integrity while helping to socialize them into the religious culture. The accent is on the dynamics of the process of religious socialization rather than on specific media. Fourteen references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Describes UNISIST efforts to design a single flexible format for the international exchange of bibliographic information in machine-readable form. Such a format would handle records of varying completeness for either direct use or transfer between established international communication formats. There are ten references. (Author/RAA)

Offers suggestions teachers may find useful as they assist children in changing harmful sex-role perceptions and in developing unbiased attitudes toward learning in school. (Author/RH)

Schools are managed with the wrong organizational model in mind. They are unique and cannot be governed by conventional management theory. This article describes schools as loosely coupled systems and describes what school administrators should be doing to be effective in such a situation. (Author/WD)