Evaluation of the principal is in great demand in this era of accountability. The author suggests that principals take an offensive position by developing their own evaluative criteria. (Editor)

A description of evaluation of the experimental schools operated by the Berkeley (Calif.) Unified School District. (RB)

A specialist in school finance discusses budgetary accountability by way of a factory analogy and an alternate route analogy. (Editor/RB)

Believes that the principalship is the key position for facilitating change, this author provides practical suggestions for the principal as change-agent. (Editor)

Change mythology vs. change reality introduces this summary of program descriptions by several principals and a frank discussion of what's ahead for their schools. (Editor/RB)

Pressure today is exerted upon school officials for alternatives. The author presents several programs his school system has initiated, with frank appraisal of their success or failure. (Editor)

This author strongly advocates open faculty discussions of individual teachers' instructional goals and methods. He says that this approach conserve the principal's time, while encouraging more openness and mutual aid among faculty. (Editor)

A college admissions officer explains and illustrates some of the headaches of evaluating non-traditional high school transcripts. (Editor)

The author outlines some of the problems, reviews pertinent court cases, and advises school districts to formulate reasonable regulations on pupil record keeping. (Editor)

Results of a study by the National Association of College Admissions Counselors; data is tabulated. (SP)

Various reasons are given for the unrealiability of class rank as an indicator of academic success; author is head of a small private college-preparatory school. (SP)

Because of increasing variety in the high school curriculum, rank in class has become meaningless; the author feels that student's grade point average is a truer predictor of college success. (SP)

A review of the literature makes it clear that high school record has been and is a valid and possibly even an increasingly important predictor of college work. (Author)

Answers to the major issues that confront secondary schools and colleges in making decisions about the use or non-use of grade point average and rank-in-class as features of the college application/admissions process. (Author)