State boards of education and state boards of higher education have worked independently and often in competition in the past. Now states seem increasingly interested in coordinating education at all levels, not always appropriately. Trends in educational governance, academic reform, and state financing suggest the direction of future educational…

The suicide of a competent and popular teacher required rapid but careful response by administrators at a midwestern high school. This article explains how faculty members and students were informed and how crisis specialists were brought in to help respond to strong student reactions. (PGD)

Principals in urban high schools can play an important role in improving school effectiveness by adopting an educational philosophy that focuses on development of the students' sense of self-worth. (PGD)

Athletics have become too dominant on the contemporary educational scene and must be put back into a position from which they can contribute to the development of our youth without interfering with their academic growth. (Author/PGD)

A positive school climate, good school discipline, effective teaching, and good community relations can all be furthered with the development of adequate communication among administrators, teachers, parents, and students, but the administrators must accept a leadership role in the process. (PGD)

Presents a plan for individualizing and personalizing teacher supervision and evaluation. Includes five illustrations of components involved in the plan. (MD)

Presents a proposal for effective teacher supervision and evaluation that puts the responsibility for supervision on someone close to the teachers, while the responsibility for evaluation remains the principal's. Includes diagrams outlining supervision and evaluation procedures. (MD)

Provides two teacher evaluation models for principals. Emphasizes teacher evaluation based on teacher's abilities rather than student achievement. (MD)

A study that evaluated the effectiveness of formal and informal needs assessment procedures found them equally valid in ascertaining information for planning staff development programs. (MD)

Presents a teacher evaluation model based on the use of an effective teaching criteria list. Includes two schematic figures. (MD)

Lists the 10 most frequently mentioned bad habits that educational supervisors find irritating in their subordinates. (MD)

Lists 10 teacher evaluation guidelines culled from 10 years of "Bulletin" articles. (MD)

Describes a project to identify the causes of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in a district's schools in an attempt to improve teacher attendance. (MD)

Describes the Walker-Carfield Model for teacher evaluation, designed to reduce teacher anxiety and hostility and reduce administrator time. Includes the Teacher Effectiveness Chart. (MD)

A survey of 200 teachers on merit pay revealed that 57 percent did not favor merit pay. Examination of the responses shows that those with less than a masters degree were against merit pay two to one. (MD)