Examines alternative plans for desegregating schools in a metropolitan context. (JF)

School systems today are rediscovering what was well-known in yesterday's one-room schools -- that tutoring of younger students by older students works. (Author/JN)

The failure of the teaching profession to react to the infiltration of paraprofessionals into the teaching ranks, a movement promoted by what amounts to an administration/school board conspiracy, suggests that teachers are doomed to second-class status. (Author/JN)

There is little or no reason to believe that administrators and school boards are involved in a conspiracy to allow paraprofessionals to replace teachers. (Author/JN)

To restore origins -- i.e., the homes -- is a much more challenging and exalted calling for Early Childhood Education professionals than building substitute environments, even though some of the latter must, of course, be done. (Author)

Examines three troublesome questions concerning the effects of behavior modification: (1) what other conditionings may occur besides the simple one desired, (2) what type of personality modification is taking place along with behavior modification, and (3) what type of society will result when it consists of individuals trained in this manner?…

Presents twelve reasons why educators should be wary of behavior modification. (JF)

Answers criticisms of and questions about behavior modification. (JF)

Argues that behavior modification represents the use of a series of scientifically verified techniques that could be used to promote more effective learning of both social and academic subject matter. The author maintains that a behavioral approach fails to help the teacher decide why, what, and who is going to learn. (Author/JF)

Research indicates that the achievement difference favoring girls over boys typically found in American schools results from an interaction between the role of the student and the sex role expectations applied to boys and girls in our society. Teachers, both male and female, play a well-defined teacher role which complements the student role as…

Time is running out for social studies revision. If the social studies profession hopes to resurrect credibility with youth, every teacher must consciously move to relate his courses to the value dilemmas of youth and the value-laden issues of our time. (Author/JN)

The current concept of accountability -- defined to emphasize educational results, the allocation of responsibility for results, and the consequences to those held responsible -- represents a powerful force for positive educational change. It may yet produce a fundamental reconstruction of public education. (Author/JN)

The newly appointed director of the National Institute of Education responds to questions about the institute's objectives. (JN)

A long-time authority on national manpower and vocational questions voices some strong objections to current thinking in the guidance field. (Author/JN)

The author argues that an economist writing on career guidance is about as valid as a school counsel writing on manpower problems. (See EA 503 490.) (Author/JN)