Reports on a survey of Pennsylvania school districts to determine whether citizens want to be involved in educational governance, at what level of the educational structure citizens believe decision making should rest, and how citizens desire to be represented in the governing process. (Author/IRT)

We must and we can find alternatives in order to survive in our shrinking environment. It is sure that public education can only progress--it is likely that this is the only way it can survive--if we find new ways of cooperation during the next several years of sparse resources. (Author)

The authors present a model which, they claim, makes the internship an academic experience and greatly improves the communication patterns among all concerned. (WM)

Examines the search-screen-selection practices of colleges and universities searching for new deans. The examination is based on Bailey's two types of councils, elite and arena. (IRT)

Reports the findings of nearly two years of close observation of a superintendent who managed to survive board and community conflict. Draws generalizations about how superintendents can survive. (Author/JM)

Reports the findings of a study that sought to identify the top 10 programs in educational administration from among those institutions holding membership in the University Council for Educational Administration, what factors contribute to the programs' success, and why programs receive such varying degrees of recognition. (Author/WD)

A position paper that looks at educational accountability from the viewpoint of the historian, the anthropologist, the political scientist, and the sociologist. The author is not optimistic about the future of accountability as a functional output nor as a process to improve education. (JF)