Kalamazoo has demonstrated that a comprehensive, performance-based system of administrator evaluation and accountability can work wonders. (Author/WM)

Considered the factors that caused people to close themselves to learning and stressed the need for teachers to increase their self perception as a means toward improving teaching effectiveness. (RK)

A cost/benefit study of fourteen area vocational technical schools in Kansas was conducted to assess payback periods and long run accrued benefits for vocational programs using an analysis model devised for this study. The majority of programs studied were economically successful but were highly succeptible to placement rates. (DS)

Examines the concept of compulsory public education for all and distinguishes among compulsory content, compulsory attendance and compulsory achievement. Stresses the need to develop an educational justification and effective processes for compulsory schooling. (SF)

For a concise exposition of what management by objectives is and what it could mean for schools, with special reference to the principalship, this article is recommended reading. (Editor)

This paper provoked student personnel administrators into thinking of new ways for viewing conflict. Change was approached as a social as well as a political phenomenon. The author deals with conflicts that fall into one or a combination of the following: (1) conflict over purpose, (2) conflict over role, (3) conflict over authority. (Author/LA)

The most important instructional advance in America during the 1960's was the widespread advocacy and increased use of measurable instructional objectives. In spite of this acceptance, there are still problems in specifying minimal proficiency levels and measuring the attainment of objectives. On the other hand, measurable objectives make it…

The author writes in favor of gearing educational systems to long-term manpower requirements as he responds to Professor Mark Blaug's article ("Prospects" v2, n4, Winter 1973) which advocates cost-benefit analysis as a tool for educational planning. (JH)

The Tri-Cycle Process described in the model permits for the first time an integrated system for designing an individualized instructional system that would permit a rational, diagnosis-prescription-evaluation system keyed to an accounting system. (Author)

Author discusses the four components of planning: need, interest, organization, and accountability as they relate to an alternative school. (Editor)

Discusses the current status of community college teaching and suggestions for its further professionalization, not along traditional department lines but around the discipline of instruction. (Editor/RK)

This article presents discussions of the terms accountability'' and autonomy,'' particularly as they are affected by the present politics and logic of California Teacher Education. (JA)

A one-year pilot project was designed as the model for a State Career Education Instructional System. Featured were a summer workshop, inservice education, and development of prototype instructional units. Career Economics was chosen to serve as a nucleus of the career education approach. (KM)