This is the fourth report of the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio to educators and the general public. The report is based on a survey of school superintendents, principals, teachers, and personnel directors in over 50 districts throughout the state. The report focuses on the need for teacher evaluation and the actions…

Remarks are made on the matter of who should be held accountable for students learning to read and write. It is stated that ways are needed to restructure schools so that teachers may reasonably be held responsible for seeing that all clinically normal students are able to read and write with at least minimal competence. It is believed that this…

The purpose of this paper is to examine some alternatives regarding the reorganization of the school year and the organizational problems of space, cost-saving, and effectiveness. This paper emphasizes the variables that may be manipulated in reorganizing the school; namely, the length of the operating school day, the length of the student's…

The procedures and results of an information dissemination technique involving direct mail activities and conferences are described in this report. The approach described was utilized as the first step in an effort to begin the national implementation of the Multiunit School-Elementary. Analysis of the results of the project indicate that the…

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNIQUES WERE APPLIED IN A STUDY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF A BIOLOGY COURSE FOR INDIVIDUAL PROGRESS. THEODORE HIGH SCHOOL AT THEODORE, ALABAMA, WAS SELECTED FOR STUDY BECAUSE OF ITS APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF ITS RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. DESCRIBED IN THIS INTRODUCTORY…

Individualization of instruction is not likely to take place prior to community realization of the failure of present arrangements.

This article expands on the idea that Britain might use Denmark's experimental school program and reports on the pioneering Tvind Schools and on one of the Danish "little" schools. (Editor/RK)

This article looks beyond class size to such specifics as teachers' load, subject electives available, subject load, and different class groupings in developing a flow chart that gives added understanding and control over the variables relating to the deployment of teachers. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the development of comprehensive education in Russia with the focus on the comparison of ordinary versus specializing comprehensives. (RK)

States that his experience leads him to question the similarity of constitution among middle schools. Examines the causes of that diversity which he believes characterizes the nine to thirteen middle school system in Hull. (Author/RK)

Discusses various topics such as the role of leadership of the head teacher, the needs of the school, the organization of teaching (vertical grouping, team teaching) and changes within a British school. (Author/AM)

After long experience as a teacher and head teacher in Devonshire, the author was appointed as Advisor for Primary Education for North and West Devon in 1975. He writes here of his experience in moving to flexible forms of grouping through cooperative teaching as head of Blue Coat Pilton at Barnstaple. (Editor/RK)

Thirteen to fifteen year-old students from Denmark, Sweden, Italy, United States, Austria, Germany, and Great Britain were the subjects on this study of formal thought processes. Socioeconomic status, sex, and school organization provided additional categorization upon which the subjects were divided. Chi square analysis revealed some differences.…

Presents a reply on a previously written article on school district organization and student achievement along with a further rebuttal by the authors of the article. (Author/AM)

In the midst of all the criticism of today's schools, a few innovations in the educational process stand out as effective procedures for improving school programs. One such innovation is the House Plan which has improved the way educators view secondary school programs and instructing secondary school students. (Author)