Reports on research that confounds normal expectations concerning the teacher behavior that encourages student achievement and self-concept development. For instance, using praise or rewards and pausing, eliciting, and responding to student questions were negatively correlated to student achievement gains. (IRT)

Presents President Carter's responses to seven questions that were designed to reveal his position on the federal role in education. (IRT)

The Reagan administration in California used what some considered inflammatory rhetoric and seemed rigid, but in actual dealings it impressed many observers as flexible and willing to compromise. (Author/IRT)

Discusses a case in which the courts upheld the school district's policies concerning the content of student publications. Concludes that perhaps the time has come that the schools can enforce rules that not only serve the legitimate interests of the schools, but also provide adequate protection for student rights. (Author/IRT)

Examines the influences forcing change in inservice teacher education in Europe, examines some innovations being made, and looks at the forms inservice education may take in the future. (IRT)

Describes a Queens College program, the School-within-a-School Professional Year Program, during which students spend a year in the field while also taking classes at the college. (IRT)

State government is taking a more active role in defining field experiences and requiring input from professional and consumer groups. It is also monitoring the programs and practices of teacher education programs more actively. (Author/IRT)

Warns against haphazard "decrementalism" as a result of retrenchment. Suggest three different stages of development in U.S. public education. Argues that a community of commitment is possible if educational leaders reformulate the purposes of public education in a tough-minded and coherent way. (Author/WD)

Declining financial resources necessitate the reevaluation of educational priorities. Those who see the urban problem as financial urge the maintenance of a balanced school budget and suggest new sources of revenue. This view's shortcomings include a lack of social compassion and failure to recognize the problem of racial discrimination.

Education is an integral part of the urban crisis. The shape of urban education in the 1980s will be determined by the extent to which education planners and decision makers relate their activities to other facets of "the larger urban problems." (Author)

Presents two new approaches to improving academic achievement in inner-city schools--group-based, mastery-learning reading instruction and curriculum alignment. Explains why fundamental school reform and incremental improvement, introduced in the 1970s, failed to yield consistent results. (Author/WD)

A significant body of research, including several large-scale correlational studies, indicates that effective teachers of the basic skills differ systematically from those who are ineffective. Eight teacher characteristics are associated with success in producing achievement gains, including expectations, classroom management, curriculum pacing,…

The problem of student failure has been aggravated by the worsening financial condition of large U.S. cities. The author offers several partial solutions that might help schools combat the problem of dwindling resources. (Author/WD)

Suggests some monetary and nonmonetary incentives to keep good teachers in hard-to-staff, inner-city schools. (Author/WD)

Houston (Texas) public schools have been declared officially desegregated. After trying many desegregation methods with varying degrees of success, the school district has used magnet schools in conjunction with majority-to-minority transfers as its primary desegregation tool. Attention has also focused on equal facilities, staff stability, and…