Successful in Japan and in American industry, quality circles are a specific way to involve staff members in solving organization problems. A growing number of school administrators are examining this technique to see if it can reduce the costs of education and improve morale. (Author/JM)

The effective administrator varies leadership styles in positive ways to gain staff members' support for organizational goals. (Author/JM)

The principal can make a fundamental difference in the performance of a school by involving staff members in school improvement planning, specific teacher and program development, and careful assessment. (Author)

Achievement is up in Washington State's District 414 where administrators have reorganized their responsibilities in order to spend more hours on instructional leadership. (Author/JM)

Four vanguard districts are committed to raising academic scores of students by increasing academic learning time; to turning average schools for disadvantaged students into exemplary schools; and, by carefully charting the process, to providing a scenario that can be useful to other schools. (Author/JM)

The Power of Positive Students (POPS) program does more than make students feel better about themselves; they become better students, better athletes, and better citizens. (Author/JM)

A learning environment stimulating enough for extraverted students may be too stimulating for introverted students (and for the teacher). (Author)

Studies suggest that primary children are teacher-motivated, prefer structure, movement, and intake while reading, and use tactual and kinesthetic senses to learn to read. Older students are less teacher-motivated, need less movement, intake, and structure, and more choice of materials, and use visual and auditory senses to learn. (Author/JM)

Studies show that students are capable of correctly identifying their own learning styles. (JM)

The Huntsville (Alabama) City Schools conduct annual Spanish-, French-, and German-language immersion workshops that move the classroom to a home or church, replace the teacher with native speakers, and extend the 55-minute period to 24 hours. (Author/JM)

The formal curriculum has a counterpart "hidden curriculum" of values and behavior, which is taught implicitly by the social systems of the school. Recent ecological studies have revealed the operations of school social systems in sufficient detail to suggest implications for the socialization of students and academic learning. (Author/JM)

Teachers and parents need to regain some of their lost authority and help youth contribute to society, not just borrow from it. (Author)

American culture appears to be the enemy of childhood. Children now look, dress, talk, and behave like adults. At the same time, adults have become more like children. (Author/JM)

Students who learn how children lived in other eras may be less pessimistic about the present and the future. (Author)

Parents and schools teach impulse control, but television says, "If you want it now, you should have it." (Author)