The contradictory roles teachers fulfill can be divided into two categories. One, the executive, is essentially supervisory, directive, and critical. The other, counselor, is essentially supportive, advisory, and oriented toward the pursuit of knowledge. (Author)

Equal access to quality education for all is the chief mission of the Carter administration's policy. (Author)

The Dayton decision is the clearest and most direct statement made by the Supreme Court about the necessity for closely tailoring any desegregation remedy to the scope of the constitutional violation. (Author/IRT)

Describes the development and implementation of Pasadena's minimum essentials program in English. (IRT)

Proposes two plans--school stamps and teacher-trustee--that would give parents and teachers a say in educational expenditures. (IRT)

Reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the Boston magnet school program. The author concludes that integration in the 1980s will need to be metropolitan and voluntary. (Author/IRT)

Describes the Dallas district's involvement in desegregation, magnet schools, and the involvement of parents and business in the schools. These efforts should be seen as part of a larger effort at reform and renewal throughout the district. (Author/IRT)

Identifies negative or suspect teacher and administrator behavioral patterns that can be observed by the individual teacher or administrator, patterns that reduce the quality of education during the desegregation process. (Author/IRT)

Court-appointed committees that monitor desegregation plans are an emergent and potentially useful new form of citizen participation on education. The scope of several monitoring committees is outlined. (Author/IRT)

The lesson of Serrano will be the lesson of social policy in general: government can allocate resources but it cannot specify results. Serrano and its predecessors were aimed at promoting better education for needy districts and are likely to equalize spending with no systematic effect on educational outcomes. (Author/IRT)

Concentrates on three questions: Who are the current critics of standardized testing? What are their persistent criticisms and concerns? Which of these criticisms appear to be valid, which have some validity, and which appear to be irrational? (Author/IRT)

Although in U.S. v. State of South Carolina the Court has established important guidelines legitimating the use of validated National Teacher Examination scores in the certification of teachers, some problems and questions remain. (Author/IRT)

Examines Bloom's theories of mastery learning as developed in his book--"Human Characteristics and School Learning." (IRT)

This program takes advantage of the mastery learning strategies, fits the Chicago reading curriculum, and keeps in mind the "facts of life" of urban education. (Author/IRT)

Describes an innovative career counseling program that uses parents who are active in a profession as the source of information about that profession. (IRT)