This study examined teachers' sense of powerlessness within two distinctive school organizational structures. Definite patterns of teacher sense of powerlessness were uncovered within Authoritarian and Collegial school structures. In addition, a majority of teachers in Authoritarian schools experienced a greater sense of powerlessness than did…

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

Article provides an overview of the various alternative programs for schools, pointing out their specific advantages. Examples are given of some of the country's outstanding programs. (Editor)

Discusses innovative teacher education programs designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of present day public schools. (Author/RK)

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)

Article suggests constructive changes principals can make to encourage students and teachers to enjoy their educational environment. (RK)

The principal should test the limits of his school system's diversity by taking a variety of desirable actions without first consulting his superiors, according to the author. He advocates positive action on the part of principals rather than reaction to external stimuli. (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)

Discussion of a report, published as Organisation in Multiracial Schools,'' sponsored by the Department of Education and Science of Great Britain, April 1970 to September 1972, to determine the success of the school program for immigrant students with particular reference to language learning and teaching. (RS)

The large school must organize itself to recognize individual human needs or face continual disruption. The author concludes that the specifics depend upon a constellation of factors inherent in any given situation. (Editor)

The only hope for the schools is that each faculty be willing to change its perception if necessary. They, the faculty members, may then have the readiness to examine the life of their particular school, remove the meaningless elements, and build a situation meaningful to the students, teachers, and parents of their school. (Author)

Summaries of several national surveys of middle schools and the current status of middle schools in several States, along with general conclusions. (Author)