Outlines the Learning Climate Improvement Process developed by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) that is used to identify the components of a school needing improvement. Includes discussion of the five steps involved in the improvement process. Includes references. (MD)

Provides a basic definition of the systems approach and explains the school as an open social-technical system composed of five subsystems--goals and values, technical, psychosocial, structural, and managerial. Contrasts the systems approach with earlier management theories that emphasized particular subsystems and ignored others. (JHZ)

Criticisms voiced in recent national reports on education are summarized. Use of schools as immediate instruments of social change and expanding career expectations of women are cited as roots of acknowledged deficiencies. (MNS)

Underscores the need for a guiding ideology for educational planning in Nigeria, finding the Nigerian National Policy on Education and the Third National Development Plan too abstract and unattainable. Advocates the process of systematic forward planning, whereby education is conceptualized as a "system process orientation." (DMM)

Effectiveness of substitute teachers is related to the implementation of strategy for their utilization. If substitutes are expected to do more than control students, then teachers must leave lesson plans, activities, and materials that can be used by anyone. Cooperation and coordination are essential for substitutes' success. (MD)

Vocational education is a fallacy in developing nations in that it is expected to solve social and economic problems that no single remedy can solve and that it is often planned and delivered in a way inconsistent with the realities of its environment. (SK)

Roles, perspectives, and skills of superintendents and their fit to the Organizational Elements Model (OEM) are examined by defining the elements in the model and providing examples of applications, analyzing superintendents' roles in the planning process, and discussing a method of determining the roles of superintendents in different situations.…

The annual report of the President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is presented. After discussing Orwell's implications, he describes the current status of mathematics education and suggests what mathematics teachers need to do to improve instruction. (MNS)

The School Attendance Review Boards, better known as SARB, combines community and school resources with coordinated effort to solve the problem of student absenteeism. (Author/RK)

Deals with four major skill areas: (1) the analytics of categorization, (2) the analytics of priority assessment, (3) the analytics of time and transition, and (4) the analytics of decision strategy. (Author)

Outlines the approach of a British educational committee to draft proposals for a secondary chemistry syllabus at the N and F levels. (MLH)

The author shares some of the failures and successes of the application of the futures perspective in college teaching, government planning and evaluation, and educational administration at the college level. (Author/IRT)

Offers a brief description of the overall activities and methods employed in Project SWEP and provides some detail on the ways in which a futures-orientation and methods associated with futures studies were used in the project. (Author/IRT)

Changes in planning theory and practice in Norway have been characterized by widening the scope of "educational matters," broadening the conceptual framework to include elements of all the social sciences, and changing the conception of planning as an administrative function. (Author/IRT)

In this report, the Commission considers a proposal by the Santa Clara Community College District to establish an educational center in the community of Canyon Country. The district was created in 1968 when the communities of Valencia, Newhall, Canyon Country, Agua Dulce, and Val Verde voted overwhelmingly for its establishment. It serves a…