Alternatives in junior high, middle, and intermediate schools run the gamut, the researchers of NASSP's exemplary program files discovered. A few of them are described in this article. (Editor)

Turning from the curriculum aspects, this writer focuses upon several administrative techniques of schools responding to NASSP's annual survey of exemplary programs. (Editor)

Most respondents claiming exemplary programs in student activities indicated student newspapers, although other publications were also mentioned. The writer explores aspects of producing these printed pieces. (Editor)

What schools are doing by way of using their staffs more effectively in the instruction of youth is explored here as the author reports his findings in NASSP's exemplary program files. (Editor)

This concluding article explores administrative programs submitted as exemplary approaches to effective school leadership. (Editor)

Appropriate as the final article in this look at junior high, middle, and intermediate schools claiming exemplary programs is a summary that points out where we are, what we have missed, and where we ought to be going in the Seventies. (Editor)

This article reveals how junior high and middle school principals assess their job preparation and actual job requirements. The findings may be surprising. (Editor)

Making several changes in concert was one reason, this writer maintains, why an Ohio middle school made forward strides in providing successful innovative programs for its emerging adolescents. (Editor)

How one school system went about improving student self-concepts is the subject of this article. What the schools did has been successful and the future holds even more promise, writes the author. (Editor)

Seventeen guidelines spell out major considerations for thinking about, planning, and implementing a middle school. The authors offer them as the basis for school and community discussions. (Editor)

After reading Larry Kennedy's "Problems and Progress in Junior High Reading Programs" in NASSP's Bulletin, December 1972, the writer began to write what he believed to be a sequel. This is it. (Editor)

Using birth statistics to indicate school enrollment trends, the author describes a hypothetical case in which a system reverts to the junior high arrangement after having tried the middle school set-up. (Editor)

Now that he has had the opportunity to reflect upon a report by the National Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education, the author gives us his thoughtful reflections about many of their recommendations. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of this study was to compare differences in the intellectual, interest, emotional, and social maturity levels of fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grade pupils in elementary and middle schools. (Author)

This article supplies descriptions of four stages of a teacher's development and suggests that school administrators have a responsibility for stimulating growth in their faculties. (Editor/RK)