Article discusses suggestions and priorities for educational improvements as presented at a conference sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals in April, 1976. (RW)

Community involvement should be dynamically and persistently cultivated: it can enhance the learning of the student and is crucial to the continuing support of the public schools. Suggests seven planning phases that might be helpful toward developing effective community involvement. (Author/RK)

The failure of Western industrial societies to fulfill the individual's need for a sense of community as it existed in the social structure of Medieval Europe, and the implications of this failure for both the individual and society as a whole are discussed. (RW)

In Wales, the issues of language, land, and community are inextricably intertwined in a resurgence of Welsh identity. Nowhere are these issues more the focus of attention than in the newly formed Welsh-medium schools. Concentrates on the school's task in identity building and on the interplay between the schools and rising elites. (Editor/RK)

Although the middle school was heralded as a partial answer to the unrest and rebellion of the past two decades, much as the junior high was in the early part of this century, neither organization has proved to be a panacea for the ills of the nation's schools. (Author)

This article explores the relationship between disability and child abuse, addressing both disability resulting from abuse and disability as a factor that contributes to abuse. The article also discusses how schools can improve their reporting practices and their responses to children with disabilities, and how schools can support families. (CR)

Sets forth and considers educational beliefs explicitly stated by the justices of the Supreme Court in major court opinions rendered in the 1980s. The justices' educational viewpoints, in general, have turned to an emphasis on control, discipline, order, authority, and the inculcation of traditional values. (60 references) (MLF)

This editorial recommends the education of severely handicapped students in integrated community schools, calls for students' integration into the social community, and urges educators to consider how they promote "the community" and the use of the "community schools" in their own lives. (JDD)

Argues that educational professionals at all levels of the school system must demonstrate individual and collective leadership daily in order to effectively deal with the needs of students, staff, and communities. Discusses attributes of effective schools, and the pivotal role of principals in fostering school success. (SV)

This paper examines four court decisions felt by some authors to represent judicial activism concerning least restrictive environment for students with disabilities. The courts' reasoning and decision-making methods are discussed, and the paper concludes that there is no indication that the courts are ready to abandon precedence and begin…

The Internet will revolutionize education by allowing students to explore learning resources online; schools will play a major role in facilitating access to and use of these resources. Benefits include anonymity of users, unstructured learning, and a wide variety of information. Examples are provided of more than 20 information-rich Internet…

Discusses distance learning and examines the role of the educational environment as a place with unique characteristics. Highlights include correspondence education, multimedia and tele-learning models of distance education, and the trend to socially isolate the educational experience, thereby changing the nature of schools as public places. (LRW)

Discussion of instructional technology in the university highlights new demands on the structure of the university, different assumptions about the definition of knowledge versus information, the role of the university in an information-oriented society, and the difference between supplementing media and comprehensive planned instruction. (LRW)

Notes that, although children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are high risk for failure, ADHD is not recognized as separate handicapping condition under Public Law 94-142. Sees school counselor's role as advocating total diagnostic and psychoeducational treatment program for ADHD students. Discusses school role and counselor…

Discussed is the mentoring relationship especially in relationship to the development of gifted students within the special school context. Considered are personal qualities fostered by mentoring, characteristics of mentors and their students, and school organizational structures that encourage mentoring. (DB)