This paper has been extracted from a follow-through study of thirty-eight secondary schools involved in the trial of a Schools Council (England) curriculum projects.

Differentiated staffing is a fundamental change, not a peripheral one, in school personnel practices, contends the writer, who feels it gives true meaning to the phrase career ladder.'' (Editor)

The failure of mass education throughout the world is discussed. (DB)

Describes the educational reform of the Italian middle school system from a fragmented system of separate vocational and academic schools to a unified comprehensive middle school system. Effects on the high school system are also mentioned. (AN)

Examines the relationship between some bureaucratic characteristics and teachers' sense of power. (Author)

Structural and compositional properties of the school as an organization and their effect on the job satisfaction and job commitment of the teacher are discussed. (DB)

Ways to combat the problems inherent in any attempts at educational change are presented. (CK)

Concentration on narrow subject areas at the expense of all other activities develops a disintegrated and discontented student. (CK)