Article describes one group of teachers and their efforts to work together during the first three semesters of the West Philadelphia Community Free School. (Authors)

Without building costly new plants, the College High School plan can be implemented. This plan provides the kind of climate usually associated with colleges, where students accept major responsibility for selecting courses, choosing teachers, and managing free time. (Editor)

There's more to small group instruction than just fewer students, point out the authors who describe several techniques teachers should employ to make their small group teaching effective for learners. (Editor)

To help administrators guard against the proliferation of meaningless innovations, the author suggests 10 basic questions that should be asked before plans for any innovative programs progress too far. (Editor)

Authors contend that educators too often are concerned about the big issues and forget about the persistent timewasters that have deleterious effects on educational programs. (Editor/CB)

Tongue in cheek speech advocating the great cause of unresponsiveness.'' (CB)

Author stresses the needs for initiative and creativity on the part of school principals. He interprets updating not as catching-up but as leading the parade of change. (Editor)

Advising that involvement be done carefully, the writer first lays the groundwork for the involvement of staff in junior high/middle schools and then offers administrators several points to keep in mind as teachers are involved on the management team. (Editor)

Author takes a hard look at certain facets of contemporary American society and challenges educators to throw their weight on the side of the eternal verities.'' (Editor)

To the author joy suggests an inner harmony with one's physical and human environment. Pupils, teachers, and principals--all are constantly reaching for that inner harmony. (Author/CB)

Author discusses two kinds of communications--effective and good--and their applications for school administrators. (Editor)

Author provides practical guidelines in instituting multicultural education so that minority-group students will not be culturally excluded in school. (Editor/CB)

Consumer education claims center stage in the high school curriculum today as a means of arming ourselves with the only effective weapon against exploitation--information. (Editor)

Most students have the competence and the right to make significant decisions concerning their own learning if they are provided appropriate leadership, and high school principals must assume responsibility for initiating that leadership and ensuring its continuity. (Author)

This article describes a program that offers freshman college courses taught by college professors to qualified high school seniors in place of the normal senior year curriculum. (Editor)