Describes the approach used by one school district for increasing parent involvement in the schools and improving community understanding and support of school personnel and programs. (JG)

Suggests how educational leaders can adjust their leadership style to increase the involvement of parents and other community members in multicultural community schools. (JG)

Discusses Situational Leadership Theory, a conceptual framework that can help managers improve their performance by varying their leadership style in various situations to fit the needs and capabilities of their subordinates. (JG)

Describes the "floating faculty" program developed by the Prince George's County (Maryland) Public Schools to provide onsite inservice training for school faculties in the district through the use of specially trained personnel that make up a "faculty-without-a-school." (JG)

Describes the clinical supervision approach to teacher supervision and evaluation, and discusses the strengths of the approach. (JG)

Describes a model program developed at Emory University for training Resident Clinical Supervisors, master teachers who teach part-time while providing clinical supervision of other teachers in their school. (JG)

Supervisors daily face the dilemma of authority. As middle-management personnel, they have two commitments: to the achievement and survival concerns of educational organizations, and to human concerns that revolve around the feelings, worth, and independence of human beings. (Author)

Reviews the focus of past publications and conferences of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and concludes that curriculum has received much more attention than supervision has. Argues that continued overemphasis on curriculum will eventually lead to the demise of innovation in both curriculum and supervision. (JG)

The only way out of our current nadir of morality is to utilize education to bring more ethics into the world. (Author)

Successful and widely adopted reading programs have similar characteristics that contribute to their effectiveness. (Author/MLF)

Teacher characteristics and student variables go together to constitute a reading instructional program. (Author/MLF)

If taught well, reading instruction can have a positive effect on kindergarten children. (Author/MLF)

A description of elements that most reading experts would endorse as part of a sound instructional program in reading. (Author/MLF)

The author's work has produced numerous instances in which barely literate students have improved dramatically because poetry composition provided them with the motivation to write. (Author/MLF)

The author contends that the mastery learning model should be eyed cautiously as a risky way to teach reading and writing. (Author/MLF)