The beleaguered educational publishing industry is making a valiant stand against a storm of challenges. From eradicating bias in textbooks to verifying textbook effectiveness, many problems must be faced. The industry responds by cooperating with educators. (Editor)

Principals over 60 years of age tend to infringe on the civil rights of students more than their younger colleagues. Such is the kind of data turned up in a study of Kansas principals. Other findings are equally intriguing. (Editor)

Today's rapid educational changes demand that the principal possess skills for bringing about change while averting pitfalls along the way. This article alerts the educator to potential crises in change initiation and the skills necessary to deal with them. (Editor)

Reviewing the history of Advanced Placement, this writer discusses the pro's and con's of a program that offers a school many advantages but has its problems, too. (Editor)

A decade of an increasing black population in five metropolitan school systems has brought a corresponding increase in black administrators, says this author. But how black must a school system become before a black superintendent is appointed? he asks. (Editor)

If this article expresses questions you have asked on the meaning of the high school diploma, you will want to follow up by reading two recent NASSP monographs: This We Believe...and Graduation Requirements. (Editor)

This writer suggests some Shakespearian gems for dealing with everyone from reporters to superintendents. You can try your old-time memorization techniques on these apropos utterances--and be prepared for anything. (Editor)

In school administration, is today's emphasis on the managerial techniques of business and industry reminiscent of a turn-of-the-century movement? This article traces the historical background of where we are now in education administration. (Editor)

Educational travel does more for students than merely show them the sights. It has the larger purpose of sensitizing them to other cultures by helping them to understand background of what they see. Mental growth and attitudinal change will be the result of a well-conceived and well-constructed travel itinerary. (Editor)

This article looks at the problem of why so few students, in certain schools, complete accelerated math programs. Hard facts and student opinion are combined here to give insight into the situation. The author suggests ways to salvage an accelerated mathematics program if an attrition problem exists. (Editor)

A Connecticut study of school absenteeism reported here provides pertinent data for consideration of a national conundrum. The author's suggestions for dealing with the problem are thought-provoking. (Editor)

Article described a program, Project BACSTOP (Better Acquisition of Cognitive Skills Through Outdoor Programing), which attempted to reduce racial interaction and develop cognitive growth through use of learning in the wilderness. (Author/RK)

Author recapped some major recommendations made at a conference ten years ago as the introduction to the chapters that follow in this 1974 issue of the Bulletin. (Editor/RK)

After researching NASSP's clearinghouse of information on exemplary programs, the writers present a synthesis of instructional strategies and curricular modalities in communications, social science, and humanities. Schools identified are listed at the end of the article. (Editor)

A search of NASSP's exemplary program files in mathematics, science, and practical arts by the authors turned up a variety of practices in use in the schools that responded to the Association's request for exemplary programs. Some new-some tried-they range from individualized instruction to mini-units. (Editor)