Previews the findings of "A Study of High Schools," cosponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Commission on Educational Issues. Offers overall impressions of field visits to high schools and suggests eight principles by which high schools should be restructured. (JW)

Provides research dealing with the school as an organization and offers an alternative development strategy based on the studies. Shows previous research was either functionalist or structuralist in approach. Research describes the school as an organization in terms of professionalism or bureaucracy. Additionally, it is described as a coercive…

Superintendents who introduce team management into school districts are compared to King Arthur and the Round Table and advised that team management will not endure, at least in its original form. (MLF)

A collaborative relationship among teachers, parents, students, and citizens can educate students more successfully than the present antilearning educational bureaucracy. (Author/MLF)

After describing Korea's political and educational history from 1592 to present, the author concludes that the social and educational experiment of Yushin--a movement meant to provide better living conditions for the common people and to yield unity among Korean people--is worthy of our attention in the United States. (KC)

This paper points to examples of the work which has been done in the sociology of teaching and learning and on the school and its environment, isolating specific issues which could be advantageously pursued from a more grounded theory approach. Interprovincial comparison studies are also advocated. (Author/SJL)

To determine how an Individually Guided Education (IGE) school structure may constrain teachers' work, four components of that structure were investigated in this ethnographic study of two five-person teaching teams: the curriculum; the team concept; the use of a team leader; and the open area design. (Author/SJL)

Describes a project intended to help high school students personalize their school environment. The program emphasizes positive social reinforcement, positive peer pressure, interaction with administrators and teachers regarding school problems and solutions, and peer counseling during homeroom. (DB)

On May 1, 1980, some 20,000 elementary children had their letters and ideas presented to the United States Senate Committee on Child and Human Development to mark the observance of Save the Children Day. This article presents excerpts from 14 of those letters, containing children's views on education. (Author/SJL)

Describes the development of an alternative elementary school in Hartford's Black South Arsenal Community. Contrasts organization, staff, student academic performance, and curriculum in the alternative school with those of the neighborhood public school. Attributes positive outcomes in the former to a strong relationship among parents, teachers,…

The author examines frequently-voiced objections to mainstreaming educable mentally retarded (EMR) students at the secondary level. These focus on the inability of school structures and curriculum to adapt to EMR students' special needs. He finds in these objections not a case against mainstreaming, but a case for school change. (SJL)

The Delphi technique was employed on a random sample of National Middle School Association members to identify topics of needed research in middle school education and to seek consensus on the usefulness of each research topic. Available from NMSA, P.O. Box 968, Fairborn, OH 45324. (Author)

The concepts of the university as an organic whole and faculty structures that further their organic relationship are questioned. Suggestions offered include those concerning flexibility of faculty organizational structure and methods of organizing disciplinary departments to combat fragmentation. (Article originally published in 1959.) (AF)