Professional development from the school system's point of view is a planned, comprehensive, and systemic program designed by a school system to improve all school personnel's ability to design, implement, and assess productive change in each individual and in the school organization. This booklet provides an overview of and strategies to…

This paper claims that leadership, as a topic, has been disguised in behaviorism and obscured by organizational theory and management. The article examines the theories or metanarratives that have dominated educational administration and shows how they have covered and disguised leadership. It argues that the metanarratives--trait theory,…

What is the role of "zero" in grading? According to several authors, giving students a zero lets them too easily off the hook, seldom serves as a motivator for them to do better and is not an accurate reflection of what has been learned. While students do need to be responsible and accountable for their work, assigning a zero skews the grade and…

Author suggested programs and research that could facilitate the healthy development of adolescent youth. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the concept of literacy for the purpose of identifying the parameters that must be specified in literacy definitions, identifies related measurement problems, and describes literacy assessment procedures currently available. (RB)

The immediate past president of the National Council for Community Services dercribes the developmant of the "continuing education unit", and its implications for community services practitioners. (Editor)

Article investigated the possibility of teaching a non-sectarian morality in the multi-cultural school while benefiting Muslim, Humanist, Hindu and Jew. (Author/RK)

Article presented guidelines for a program of environmental education and discussed attitudes toward the biophysical atmosphere. (Author/RK)

Author attempted to demonstrate a stream of thought, emanating to some extent at least from Cambridge, opposed to the desirability of relativistic commitments. (Author/RK)

Article presented an outline of components of a possible program for esthetic learning. (Author/RK)

Explored the use of the analogy as a means of communication in daily teacher-student encounters. (RK)

Discussed ethnic groups in the United States and the fact that they are subsiding and disappearing. (Author/RK)

Part of a continuing article. (DD)

Neologism is a term for any word introduced into a language regardless of the method of its creation. (DD)