Trilateral practices, whether mandated or freely allowed, add the consumer constraint concept to the bargaining model. The various practices have been categorized as prebargaining practices, bargaining practices, and postbargaining practices. (Author/IRT)

In a major development in the state politics of resource allocation, two rival political movements--school finance reform supporters and spending/tax limitation supporters--are going to confront each other in several states. (Author/IRT)

The court's finding invalidates New York State's system of financing schools because of problems including municipal overburden. (Author/IRT)

Criticizes the federal regulations that encourage waste and cheating in the school lunch program. (IRT)

In agreeing with the College Entrance Examination Board finding that social disruptions during the 1960s were one cause for declining test scores, the author recounts some disruptions that she faced in her classroom. (IRT)

A teacher who was injured in an attack at school describes her experience and offers suggestions to school districts to help them better aid teachers who have been subjects of violence. (IRT)

Looks at past evaluation of compensatory education, suggests new approaches to evaluation, and makes recommendations about program implementation. (IRT)

Describes the successes of the Career Opportunities Program before it was deleted from the federal budget. (IRT)

Describes the building of Milton Academy's solar greenhouse and explains the reasons the greenhouse construction was included in the curriculum. (IRT)

This report on the First Annual National Conference on Student Competencies focues on the legal challenges to competency testing. (IRT)

Test scores have fallen because play is essential for childrens' cognitive development and this generation of children has played less than any other. (Author/IRT)

The attorneys general of 25 states have joined the American Council on Education in asking the Supreme Court to decide whether a college can deny a handicapped student admission into a professional training program because the college believes the student cannot fulfill the responsibilities of the profession. (Author)

Students in this elementary school are much more receptive to learning in their after-lunch classes since the usual lunch-period pattern--lunch followed by play--was reversed so that students play and then eat. (Author/IRT)

Student opinion polls offer an inexpensive means of improving communication between elements of the college community that tend to have conflicting purposes and perceptions. They permit decision-making on the basis of factual information as opposed to guesswork. (Author/IRT)

The student-run Come, Care, Communicate Center at North Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, brings adult visitors into the school during the noon hour and exposes students to a broader understanding of the adult world. (Author/IRT)