Author gives thourough treatment to alternatives evaluation purposes and problems. (Editor)

Author describes the structure and process of a special blend of authoritative leadership and democratic action that he says work well for either alternative or traditional schools. (Editor)

Author feels that our understanding of educational space has not developed simultaneously with new concepts of the learning process. We must begin to think of using space in terms of user needs rather than in terms of curriculum divisions. (Editor)

Smaller districts produce a variety of learning programs more spontaneously, more informally, and more easily. Will smaller districts become the leaders in developing successful alternatives? (Editor)

Cites the need for an examination of ways in which we can teach the theory and practice of decimal notation so that its operational facility is a genuine advantage. (Editor/GB)

Paper attempts to show how students can be given the opportunity to select their instructors for valid educational reasons; provides a model showing how students can select the way they will be taught; and how teachers can still do what they feel is necessary to accomplish their teaching objectives. (Author/CB)

Experienced as a practitioner and as a student in building master schedules for both junior and senior high schools, the author recommends a procedure that puts the human element back into scheduling students and teachers into the right classes. (Editor)

Differentiated staffing is a fundamental change, not a peripheral one, in school personnel practices, contends the writer, who feels it gives true meaning to the phrase career ladder.'' (Editor)

Schools are out of step with the real world by retaining the traditional semester organization of the academic year, the author says, and should adopt the quarter system to be relevant. (Editor)

Open campus can be successfully implemented, says a principal who has lived with it for five years. He even claims that it can make students more responsible. (Editor)

This article discusses one school's experiences in planning, implementing, and dealing with the changes resulting from a modular flexible scheduling system. (Editor)

Aware that the concern of many administrators contemplating modular flexible scheduling is how effectively students use their free time, the author describes a study to learn whether this concern has any basis in fact. His conclusion: the advantages of more free time for the student outweigh the disadvantages. (Editor)

This article contrasts traditional education with open-concept education. (Editor)

The problem with most educational innovations, says the author, is that they are laid on one at a time, as if a single one could be best for all students. This article describes seven major differences in learners and how instructional components should be influenced by them. (Editor)

Team teaching should not be adopted wholesale without first being tested for its real advantages. After listing disadvantages and possible pitfalls, the authors offer procedural suggestions that can lead to teaching ecstasy.'' (Editor)