Author sees the guidelines as providing compromise and flexibility to the benefit of students. (Editor)

The University School of Milwaukee eliminated class rank and substituted a bar graph system, illustrated and explained in the article. (SP)

Discontinuing the class rank system has not affected the admission of students to college in this case. (SP)

Author is principal of a school that gives estimated rank by quintile, fourths, upper-middle," etc. (SP)

Promoting steady enthusiam and personal affirmation in teaching, the author describes a program in Tennessee called the Living Curriculum. (Editor)

Citing strengths of public education, the California governor also recognizes and discusses many of its problems, among them, society's greater expectation of today's schools, and student attitudes. (RB)

Author, a brigadier general and deputy assistant secretary of defense, describes his background as a black youth faced with racial discrimination and discusses the direction in which he sees the country moving. (RB)

A leading proponent of behavioral objectives, author provides persuasive argument on how objectives can be used to bring about classroom accountability. The principal, he says, must be aware of real and specious teacher-performance assessment. (Editor)

Disillusionment with this society's basic institutions is not the sole domain of the young. During this crisis in leadership, the author advocates renewing and extending "... a sense of balance and proportion in attaining higher standards..." (Editor)

With accountability came the rush to develop behavioral descriptions of learning for students and to hold the teachers accountable for results. Now we realize, the author states, that the distinctive behaviors of principals are those that affect the continuing development of teacher competencies. (Editor)

The author advocates a trust-and-work-with approach" for administrators of schools plagued by student disruptions using student-faculty and student-administrator discussion groups to ease tensions. (AN)

Reviews two studies on causes of student unrest and the role of the student council in channeling student activism toward constructive ends. (AN)

The role of the principal has been emasculated by the organizational structure of most school systems. Drastic reform is necessary to restore the potential of the principal's role - leadership. (AN)

What a new principal did to quiet an embattled school, and how he did it, are described by that principal. (AN)