Reports on a study showing that teachers can influence the climate in the classroom and that this climate can have an impact on whether schools are truly integrated or merely desegregated. (Author/IRT)

The author's ten commandments are intended to provide teachers with significant general guidelines for use in the classroom. The areas covered include worship in the classroom, academic freedom, corporal punishment, slander and libel, and student safety. (IRT)

Discusses ways in which the film "The China Syndrome" can be used as a tool for ethical instruction. Points out ethical issues arising within the film and similar issues arising outside the film. (IRT)

Discusses the impact of teacher expectation on student performance and then describes a program that changes teacher expectations by focusing on the achievements of students. (IRT)

Discusses the Equal Opportunity in the Classroom Project of the Los Angeles County Schools in which recognized low achievers are given equal attention in the classroom. (IRT)

Describes a program at Puerto Rico Junior College that offers credit and noncredit courses over a commercial television station. (IRT)

Outlines steps that must be taken for a school to implement a Walkabout experiential learning program in a community. (IRT)

An Illinois school board presented state assembly candidates with an opinionnaire to gather their positions on 12 issues of interest to the board. The board then invited the candidates to a coffee to discuss the issues. (IRT)

Reports on what researchers discovered in their study of five urban school districts that were labeled "innovative." Provides a conceptual framework that takes into account five factors that seemed critical to a district's success or failure in implementing change. (Author/IRT)

Coaches are teachers and they succeed to the degree to which they understand that their job is the selfless task of educating students and not the selfish glory of a single-minded pursuit of glittering records. (Author/IRT)

Rebuts articles asserting that the steep decline in school test scores has been stopped. (IRT)

Emphasizes the views of the American participants on the nature of British students and the British educational system. (IRT)

Argues for the establishment of special high schools that would teach all the normal courses as mandated by state law but would also place special emphasis on foreign languages and on international subjects generally. (Author/IRT)

Missing from the "Seven Cardinal Principles" of 1918 and a restatement of them in 1978 is the principle that secondary students have a moral responsibility to learn, understand, and respect the values inherent in other races and religions. (Author/IRT)