Provides a tongue-in-cheek proposal for establishing football training centers on four campuses in California. The plan separates athletics from academics to remove the need for cheating in academics. (IRT)

Research needs to be conducted to find out why parents send their children to private schools. The public schools must be willing to adopt the desirable qualities of private schools that are adaptable to the public sector. (Author/IRT)

Gives a composite view of the successful superintendent in Ohio. The information is based on a study of 16 superintendents identified as the most successful in the state. (IRT)

Describes how one district mounted a successful campaign to get its budget passed after the same budget was defeated three months earlier. (IRT)

An expressive encounter is the opposite of a behavioral objective. The instructional goals of the expressive encounter are emergent and generally aimed at skills and attitudes related to creativity and problem solving. A developmental lesson sequence is an integrated, sequential group of lessons that move toward a general goal. (Author/IRT)

Teachers will have little influence on the social integration of handicapped children unless they plan and encourage cooperative activities between the handicapped and the nonhandicapped. (Author/IRT)

Proposes an exchange program in which professors of educational administration would change places with administrators in the field. Argues that such an exchange would improve each group's image of the other. (IRT)

Uses data from the evaluation of schools using a continuous progress curriculum plan to evaluate both intended and unintended outcomes of the project. Asks if sometimes the benefits of the intended outcome aren't outweighed by the costs of the unintended outcomes. (IRT)

Presents the report of the Gallup Poll of public attitudes toward the public schools. Includes such topics as attitudes toward overall quality, treatment of the basics, inclusion of bilingual education, and offering special programs for children from one-parent families. (IRT)

Reports on a comparison of the attitudes that educators and members of the lay public expressed in the Gallup Poll. Educators tended to find more (and somewhat different) problems than did the public, were more aware of costs, and were less favorably disposed toward the basics and toward special classes for non-English speaking students. (IRT)

Reports on a National Education Association survey of a sample of public school teachers. Areas covered include finance, job satisfaction, job security, student discipline, standardized testing, television instruction, censorship, and discrimination. (IRT)

Discusses the results of a national survey of public school superintendents and compares them with the results of the Gallup Poll. Notes the agreement among the various subsamples of superintendents and the disagreements between the administrators' opinions and public opinion. Argues for improved public relations efforts. (IRT)

This case is significant because it goes further than any other earlier decision in describing the outlines of the substantive due process concept as it applies to school discipline. (Author)

Discusses attempts being made to add the "European dimension" to the nationalistic curricula of the nations within the embryonic United States of Europe. (IRT)

Describes a guidance program that functions within a classroom format. It is designed to help alienated students expose their innermost feelings and thoughts and to develop the most rigorous requirements for personal responsibility and individual accountability. (Author/IRT)