This report describes a study that sought to determine how a school district's performance changes if more freedom is given to school sites with regard to budgeting, curriculum, personnel matters, and parent communications, at the same time more of the district's administrative resources are made available for tasks of local expertise, rather than…

Describes the Montgomery County, Maryland Public School's model program, Project PROTECTION, an innovative approach for the detection and prevention of child abuse. It involves four phases: staff development, direct service to nonpublic schools, curriculum development, and policy revision. (Author/HMV)

American education has pursued a policy of overstatement of its role and substance. Current discussions of art education follow this trend of intellectual inflation, expounding pretentious aims and catchwords. Educators must stop getting drunk on hope and verbiage and remember that teaching is the art of the possible. (Author/SJL)

The assumptions underlying recent work on the relationship between ideology and school experience are discussed and compared to the traditions which now predominate in curriculum research. Hypotheses are posed about what curricular knowledge is accorded high status by our society and its economic and cultural effects. (Author/SJL)

This article presents a study that analyzed audio taped transcripts of students' interaction in two different kindergarten settings. Findings presented indicate that early classroom socialization has a significant impact on the communicative patterns of young children. Comparisons are made between open classroom and traditional classroom…

Described is a training program for the prevention and treatment of child abuse for educators. (BD)

This discussion demonstrates that in some instances what is actually reported as inappropriate student behavior may emanate from teacher-related biases, idiosyncracies, insensitivities, and perhaps teacher inadequacies. (Author/AM)

Western schools in non-Western societies can pose a threat to existing social relationships. (MM)

Explores the relationships among social change, values, and education. Concludes that educators should inquire into and teach about values through classic works by authors such as Homer, Plato, Ibsen, and Mark Twain. (Author/DB)

Advocates focusing on the student as the center of educational efforts and as well relating programs to parents, employers, and communities. Ultimately the value of education lies in how well it helps the student to attain a sense of meaning. (DTT)

Excerpts from keynote speech by California State Superintendent of Public Instruction addressed to the National Business Education Association (NBEA), San Francisco, California, April, 1976. (HD)

Discusses, editorially, the role of formal education in developing understanding and knowledge to enable people to live successful lives. (SL)

Literature becomes a law-related activity when a teacher centers discussion of a literary selection around civic and moral responsibility. Relevant short stories, selections from the literature of war, classical works, and poems are suggested. Journal available from College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071. (Author/DB)

A study measured the influence of academic ability and high school socioeconomic status on college plans and occupational aspirations of students. Findings indicate that school context variables do not substantially affect college plans and occupational aspirations. (Author/DB)

Schools must combine productive manual labor with academic learning, especially in developing countries, in order to create self-reliant and responsible citizens. (AV)