Article set out to compare the results, over a period of years, from the same school, operating under two different sets of conditions, to see if any significant differences could be found in the educational opportunities the school offered to its pupils under the two systems. (Author/RK)

Among the institutions that are now in the firing line is the sixth form dominated grammar school. Here we give a pen-portrait of Manchester Grammar School. (Editor/RK)

Described an attempt to overcome the depersonalization of students by schools with the presentation of a plan to give more individual attention to registering students. (Author/RK)

Offers a review of recent literature dealing with the social foundations of education and the role of education and schools in our society. (JG)

Examines the interaction of the American college with American youth in the affluent society of the 1970s and 1980s. This society is characterized by high material productivity, high per capita income, a high proportion of youth in the population, and a high unemployment of youth. (Author/PG)

Tennessee high school students volunteer time equivalent to 13 full-time teachers to tutor younger students on a one-to-one basis in problem subjects. (DW)

Colleges are undergoing a transition from having responsibility for the protective care of students in loco parentis to the position of treating and counseling students as young adults. Many administrators are academic specialists, but are not prepared to respond to the basic questions raised by students about the university's role as an…

This brief personal planning program takes the form of a self-survey where the student answers questions to which there are no right or wrong answers. The first part is called Where am I Now?; the second is Where do I Want to Be?; the third is How do I Get to Where I Want to Be? The first part requires fairly objective responses, while the other…

During the past dozen years administrators in higher education have been faced with student action that took the form of protest and that many times became violent. Student action is somewhat quieter now and the battleground has shifted largely from the campus to the courtroom. Both procedural and substantive due process are recognized by the…

In the fall of 1974, Community Unit School District 300, Dundee, Illinois, adopted the quarter curriculum at three high schools in order to provide scheduling flexibility and curriculum improvement. Curriculum guides financed by the board of education were developed by those expected to teach the course. The process utilized in completely revising…

School regulations concerning hair have been successfully defended in appellate courts in about half the country. The most recent decision of a federal circuit court upholding a school's rules was decided in 1975. In this instance, the court reversed the position it held only three years earlier. There are some guidelines that should be kept in…

This survey compared the learning of occupational skills in a junior college and nearby technical institute to determine if differences in environmental press for different types of students might cause one setting to be more effective than the other. Freshmen entering business administration, electrical technology, nursing, and secretarial…

Whenever the issue of student participation in curriculum reform is raised, the opposition can be expected to express itself in two ways: (1) the rational argument which justifies faculty control in terms of rightness; and (2) entrenchment or keeping control away from the activists. There are costs and risks, as well as potential gains in greater…

In the spirit of self-evaluation and self-improvement, Dr. Walter Weber, president of the Third College Senate, appointed an Ad Hoc Committee last April. The committee was charged with the responsibility of creating an instrument to gather information on the opinions and habits of the Senate's constituents in relation to the entire spectrum of…