To prepare school professional personnel to design and/or function within a system for systematic planning requires preparation programs that will provide them with more sophisticated planning skills that are typically found in current educational programs. (Author/MLF)

Results of a survey of Texas school administrators asked to rank courses of instruction in order of importance. (Author/M LF)

A proposal eliminates the "single diploma" concept and creates three basic graduation certificates: standard diploma (with endorsements for academic or vocational achievement), certificate of attendance, and certificate of basic competencies. (Author/MLF)

Describes the Florida Educational Accountability Act of 1976. The purpose of the act is to validate the high school diploma, thereby improving the quality of public education and eliminating the continued need for social promotion. (Author/MLF)

Decisions based on standardized tests are made everyday. It is not a question of whether tests should be used, but how. ( Author/MLF)

The potential of minimum competency testing cannot be realized unless school districts engage in the complex processes of competency-based program development. (Author/MLF)

Guides school administrators through a process to institute a workable criterion-referenced instructional system. (Author/MLF)

If educators are to fulfill their obligations to their students, their profession, and society as a whole, they simply cannot avoid taking constructive steps to improve instruction in reading and writing. (Author)

Humorous statement that the ability to write suffocatingly fuzzy prose is really the art of camouflage, and, at times, can be helpful to school administrators. (Author/MLF)

Improvement of the educational situation can only come about when we make our schools truly function in a learning manner and make the form of our educational system fit the function of education. (Author/MLF)

Recounts experiences in the Japanese Education and Society program, sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. (Author/MLF)

A system called Text-ray has been successfully employed to improve students' writing skills. (Author/MLF)

If a principal is to serve others effectively, he must first serve himself. A program is outlined for personal health and well-being. (Author/MLF)

The principal is expected to resolve conflict that stems from school board policy clashing with personal need. Board policy of necessity deals in generalities. A parallel is drawn between the principal and the sin-eater--the man who, for little payment, was believed to consume the sins of the deceased. (Author/MLF)

Tongue-in-cheek advice on how to survive the principalship. (Author/MLF)