Two cornerstones to professional growth may be the right of educators to say "I don't know how" and their use of the appropriate planning tools for learning new skills and knowledge. (Author)

"Human resource development" is a term commonly used to describe the learning programs provided by business, industry, or government for employees and nonemployees. The specifics of this approach may have implications for education as well. (Author)

Establishing a strategy for staff development avoids pitfalls involving the definition of goals, the analysis of evaluation data, and the identification of essential competencies. (Author/MLF)

Curriculum that is centered in or is the study of the firsthand experiences of pupils is compared to curriculum centered on book learning. (Author/MLF)

A group of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development members was surveyed to determine the relative importance of 17 selected issues relating to supervisory practices. (Author/MLF)

An advocate of cultural pluralism underscores the need for racial and ethnic diversity in predominantly white suburban schools. (Author)

A total of 411 public school teachers participated in a project researching the highly personal experiences and phenomena encountered by individual educators in schools and colleges as they "adopt" educational innovations. (Author/MLF)

Argues that, from the early grades on, children need help in learning behavior associated with the decision-making process and concludes that school must provide settings in which decision processes are analyzed, taught, and evaluated. (JG)

The schools are the agency that American society has set up to teach its youth knowledge and skills. The time has come for schools to take a more active role in the development of values and judgment standards, at least by providing a forum for discussing and examining such standards. (Author/JG)

People need to learn what choosing and acting morally involves and how to do it. Educational programs, well conceived, pedagogically sound, and morally carried on, are basic to attaining personal and social well-being. (Author)

Data collected by Rokeach indicate that the goal of scientific problem-solving is not valued as highly by Americans as is often thought. Recognizing this, the author suggests steps that educators can take to increase their success in teaching students the process of scientific problem-solving and decision-making. (JG)

Assesses the progress made in recent years toward integrating human and material resources that reflect diverse racial and cultural values into the schools. Focuses in turn on instructional staff, testing materials, parent-community participation, and instructional materials and concludes that while progress has been made, much remains to be done.…

Discusses current educational efforts to enable students to make high quality judgments, and argues that fostering critical thinking and decision-making must be a high priority objective if education is to be responsive to today's needs. (JG)

The ability to be unique in decision- or judgment-making depends on both developmental factors and the social environment. Education of judgment for decision-making may involve clarification of individual values and facilitation of personal development, but it must also distinguish and utilize the positive basic social values that now exist.…