This report is a response to what is perceived as the need for a systematic collection of information on the effects of semestering a secondary school, particularly as those effects are felt in teaching and learning. Chapters deal with monitoring the present school organization in the areas of student course selection and credit accumulation; the…

The responsibility for freshman composition programs should be taken from English departments and given to departments of literacy. (JH)

A strong argument can be framed that the NEA reacted to events rather than providing leadership in the civil rights struggle. Any other policy would have been impossible up until the 1973 Constitutional revisions, which provided for more direct membership control of the world's largest professional organiztion. (Author/EB)

In project training methods for managers, the training project is crucial, but it is merely a means to an end, the key element being the learning arenas for management processes. A British consultant describes these processes as consultancy, organizational change, and interpersonal. (MF)

When a school library is redesignated as a school media center, the role of the former school librarian changes along with the function of the unit itself. The responsibility for communicating about these new functions and responsibilities lies primarily with the school media specialist. (Author/MJB)

Based on experiences in establishing a personnel department and writing an affirmative action plan at Furman University, suggestions are offered for supervisory and employee training to reduce turnover rates. Selection, training, and motivation procedures are identified, and specific questions to ask applicants are listed. (LBH)

A synopsis of the development of education, particularly higher education, in Nigeria introduces a discussion of the need to make university education more relevant to the developmental needs of the country. Reorganization of universities and a different emphasis in research are among the problems to be faced. (JMD)

Outlines a program developed by the Dallas County Community College District to train educational leaders who could meet the challenge of the nontraditional student, assist faculty members to devise new instructional strategies, and deal effectively in the area of human relations. (TP)

A new technique, systems intervention, designed to deal with problems of needed change in complex organizational settings is described and its use reported in a case study of the relationships between Tufts University School of Medicine and its associated hospitals. The process combines system analysis and behavioral science techniques.…

Describes two years of an organizational change program in which a major federal agency utilized race training and organizational development methods to improve the effectiveness of its equal employment opportunity program. (Author/AM)

Innovative programs need to address themselves to staff development and organizational change. Teachers need to be involved in continuing education and incorporation of educational personnel into new programs, and also in producing structural transformations in the system. Paper prepared for the Chicago, 1975 Convention of the American…

As a field test of a new service, nine California state colleges and universities reviewed the kinds of changes they made in reevaluations of family financial strength and contribution. The changes were made as the institutions exercised "professional responsibility to make equitable judgments" in determining student need. (LBH)

Impediments to educational change were identified in six case studies of major innovative efforts in school systems. Their theoretical and policy implications are examined. The findings suggest the need for a reformulation of the theoretical scheme most frequently used to account for the fate of organizational innovations: overcoming resistance to…

The more schools seem to change, the more they deepen old ruts--a discussion of social scientists' ideas for innovations that tend not to be put into practice. (MM)

Based on current employment trends and potential interactions among them, the author offers his views of organization, technological, management, labor, and education changes that will take place in the next twenty-three years. Among these are increasing service work, more worker mobility, management role changes, continual education, and…