This handbook was designed to support Colorado schools as they make the transition from a traditional school structure to that of a comprehensive schoolwide program. It contains practical information, activities, and suggestions to assist with the development of the individual components that comprise the schoolwide planning process. The guide…

Reports on research undertaken to determine whether the pattern of high school principal succession affects the faculty's perception of the principal as a change agent. Two patterns of principal succession are identified -- outsiders,'' those promoted to principal from outside the school; and insiders,'' those promoted to principal from within…

Author believes that television has great potentialities for helping schools meet the current criticisms being leveled against them. (Editor)

Author describes Organization Development as a process of diagnosis, selection of appropriate interventions'' or solutions to the problem, and reinforcing the new behavior so that it becomes a way of life. (GB)

To avoid the dehumanization that can result from too much emphasis on efficiency alone, PPBS must conform with the pre-existing school environment, with its personal, political, social, and economic dimensions. (Editor)

Whatever the plan, the point is to design within the educational structure a process which can respond to today's needs and the probably different needs or different situations of tomorrow. (Author)

This replication of earlier research tests a mathematical model for examining the conditions under which individuals innovate. By raising costs from zero -- as validated in earlier research -- to .25, this replication defines an innovation boundary at which individuals behave as predicted by their position with respect to that boundary. (Author/JH)

Charges that there are few studies linking training with observed organizational change. (DS)

A report on developing consulting skills for organization problem solving in a large organization. (Author)

This article discusses the nature of conflict and conflict resolution within educational organizations, focuses specifically upon the causes of conflict between students and school personnel and outlines several factors relevant to increasing the probability that such conflicts will be managed constructively. (Author)

Provides a framework for understanding responses to the organizational changes necessitated by the creation and growth of an electronic data processing division. (RA)

Describes proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Classical League, June 19-21, 1969, at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, on the occasion of the group's Golden Anniversary Celebration. (DS)