Article stresses the need for decision makers and educational researchers to work more closely together. (ML)

Article stresses the need of values clarification to give pupils experience in valuing to enable them to answer the questions that really concern them. (Author/ML)

The professional literature contains many definitions and conceptualizations of PPBS, but basically it is a term applied to a set of interrelated organizational activities. (Author)

Outlines the two opposing views of PPBS. (MB)

Describes how members of one community organization tried to get their school district to move toward an Educational Planning-Programming Budgeting System. (Authors/MB)

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 educational leader should be able to place his undated resignation on the table ... and then negotiate for the position. (Author)

A study of sixty new Florida independent schools and parental reasons for enrolling their children. Most parents wanted their child to have more individual attention and a better school environment. Some of the newer schools exist, however, to escap integrated ones. (AF)

Author attributes success of Ohio non-graded elementary school to team planning, team teaching, and team evaluation of student progress. Both IQ and self-image levels rose and a healthier attitude toward school emerged. (AF)

Article points out that there is a stronger opinion these days that educators should be accountable for the progress of students. Accountability is discussed in terms of its strengths, dangers, and successes. (ML)

America's push for educational accountability is leading toward industrializing her education and making it more technological, and further asks the question is this what we want. (Author/ML)

Most objectives should be behavioral, but stresses a need in devising sophisticated measurement tactics to assess current unmeasurable outcomes in educational instruction. (Author/ML)

Schools have been poorly equipped to deal with affective concerns in terms of any prompt solutions to serious problems that effect major problems in curriculum instruction. (Author/ML)

Historically rooted curriculum designs cannot meet the challenges facing today's schools, let alone those of the future. (Author)

The public school serves as an example of institutional racism which allows a cycle to come into effect: the institution says you are inferior, the individual is judged to be inferior, and the individual finally becomes inferior. (Author/MB)