The success or failure of any negotiated agreement depends on the reciprocal support between boards and their administrators. (Author/MLF)

This article is intended to help educators who have had a minimum of training in research and statistics to understand statistical research articles, and to extract from them ideas and concepts relevant to their own particular situations. (Author)

Does the principal have a role in the humanizing process? The author believes the principal not only has a role, but plays a significant part in the process--as important a part as he has in ensuring the teachers of basic skills. (Editor)

It is a well-known fact that teacher morale has a direct reflection on the operation of the school. Yet, the authors state, teacher morale is too often placed at the bottom of the list of administrative priorities. (Editor)

The principal who knows, accepts, and respects himself will be able to respect his teachers, allowing for effective interaction and a positive educational climate. (Editor)

How would your employees respond if asked to identify your management characteristics that lacked humaneness? The author provides a checklist to help you answer this difficult, thought-provoking question. (Editor)

Schools can achieve humanistic goals, assert these writers, by providing students more options and therby meeting their diverse needs. Showing how widespread the mini-concept is, they report in this article a three-state survey that indicates how principals feel about their programs. (Editor)

Describes an innovative educational model that was implemented at a large suburban high school, and summarizes the attitudes toward its components by the parents, students, and teachers who were involved. (Editor/RK)

A survey of teachers in a number of secondary schools was conducted to gather their views on the condition of working relationships among members of the school community. Some of the findings are reported here. (Editor)

Education, the author believes, falls far short of the goals set for it by our society. The humanities receive insufficient emphasis in the schools, and the quality of life in America is poorer because this is so. (Editor)

There is, the author contends, no substitute for direct dialog between the school administrator and the private citizen. The following article catalogs methods that can be employed to tap community resources. (Editor)

A host of factors may influence whether or not a school changes. With that in mind, the author cites some examples, looks at recent literature, and offers reflections on some of these factors. (Editor)

President Warren Bennis of the University of Cincinnati depicts in refreshingly direct language the dilemma facing the nation's institutions of higher learning. (Editor)

A growing numbers of teachers hold the view that they have the right to determine curricular policy in the classroom. This view, the author maintains, is not only invalid but may also be detrimental to the teaching-learning process. (Editor)

Shared decision making is the best vehicle for planned change, according to this author. But, he reminds readers, if it is to work, clarification of the administrator's role and of his responsibility for setting the general pattern of leadership is needed. He believes that shared decision making is truly an art. (Editor)