Describes changes taking place in two school districts committed to individualization of instruction. (SP)

This article on changing schools advances five hypotheses for why effective educational change comes only when schools reconstruct themselves. Relates these hypotheses to a model'' school the author would like to build in which school is organized into phases instead of grades, teams instead of teachers, and in which performance evaluation on a…

Article is based partially on work done by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, Oregon, in the development of instructional systems which provide increased problem-solving capabilities for teachers and administrators. (Editor)

The middle school is gradually emerging, while the junior high school is expiring, to meet the needs of the pre-adolescent. It is necessary to profit by the experience gained in administering the junior schools in order for the middle schools to be a success. (MF)

School principals who exert a great influence toward change are generally older and more experienced than their less influential colleagues. (CK)

Discusses methods for introducing innovations in secondary education and describes author's conception of the new high school. (AA)

The organizational outcomes of different types of policies that school administrators follow during times of retrenchment were studied. The effects of four retrenchment policies--in school consolidation and reduced staffs, on per-pupil costs, pupil-teacher ratios, and equity--are discussed. (PP)

Examines the functions and relationship of school principals and librarians. Discusses the changing roll of school libraries since the 1960s. Explores problems of implementing a new school library. Discusses the librarian's position in the school's organizational structure. Notes that principals must recognize and support the school library…

The authors review existing research which links three sets of variables: (1) organizational characteristics, (2) how efficacy operates within the individual, and (3) the individual and organizational effects with which efficacy has been empirically connected. Efficacy is defined in terms of the individual's expectancy of gaining valued outcomes…

Seven theses are proposed concerning the nature of knowledge, the knower, opinion, learning, truth, the organization of disciplines, and the nature of the university. Systematics, the study of classification, has guided the organization of the university through the disciplines since Plato. (MSE)

A study examined the sociometric relationships in two schools with different structural organization, especially on a diffuseness-centrality dimension. The graded school had diffuseness at all levels, while the nongraded school had greater diffuseness at the lower than upper level. (MSE)

Introduces an issue of "Educational Administration Quarterly" that reviews recent developments in educational administration studies. Summarizes trends since the 1960s and suggests that research in the 1980s will focus on school effects, motivational processes, and social models of organization and will involve greater integration of…