Considerable concern is focused today on whether the twelfth grade program meets the needs of today's students. Cites some reasons for the concern and some actions that can be taken to overcome it. (Editor)

Staff development activities should achieve both indirect outcomes (behavior changes of staff members) and direct outcomes (improvement in student achievement). This article describes how one junior high staff development program was initiated and carried out. (DS)

This survey of South Dakota teachers clearly indicates that teachers expect their principals to play an important leadership role in helping them improve instruction through inservice education. Effective inservice education programs include staff involvement in planning, strong commitment from the principal, and program evaluation. (Author)

There is a positive relationship between teaching effectiveness and the teacher's perceptions of himself and his abilities. The educational leader should try to enhance the teacher's self-image in order to improve instructional quality. (Author)

The effects of open education on teacher and student performance are examined. (Author)

The author presents a questionnaire designed to assist principals in selecting committee chairpersons who will function as effective change leaders. (DS)

The author offers insights gleaned after one year of teaching, including thoughts on classroom control and discipline. (DS)

A procedure for preliminary screening of teaching position applicants is presented. (DS)

The authors present the results of a study of the effects of racial integration on faculty stability, pointing out that schools with low teacher turnover provide the highest educational quality. They propose the development of a Faculty Stability Index to measure other factors. (DS)

The author describes the Medina Senior High School (New York) program to improve student motivation and achievement by positive reinforcement of accomplishment. (DS)

This article describes the merits of career education and of an alternative, two-year program open to high school seniors and intended to develop students' career planning abilities. (DS)

This survey of labor leader attitudes reveals support for career education programs and for school-labor cooperation. (DS)

The article describes the benefits of the "Person-to-Person" career education program designed to help students, through contact with the community, make informed career choices. (DS)

It is the felicitous overlapping of career education goals with subject area goals that will provide the greatest impetus to the integration of career education into every course and at every grade level. (Author)

The author lists guidelines intended to help school administrators improve their speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills. (DS)