The quality of education received by black children in racially mixed schools improves greatly when parents are encouraged to become actively involved with the school and the curriculum. (JD)

The increased speed of knowledge accumulation and obsolescence and the shift from local self-reliance to national centralization require that the educational system revitalize itself and join other social institutions in protecting and extending an open social system. (MB)

Proposes school evaluation in terms of the learning environment a school provides rather than the achievement of its students. (HD)

Anticipatory leadership, which is action based on the forecasting of alternative futures, can solve many of the educational system's current and future problems. Effective resource management, a form of anticipatory leadership, can solve social, political, and educational problems of the future. (CJ)

Leadership skills for the twenty-first century learning environments include the abilities to: (1) view the future; (2) cope with stress; (3) select, maintain, and provide growth for staff; (4) manage instructional systems; (5) be humane and create humanistic learning environments; and (6) communicate with business, labor, and government leaders.…

The impact of the accountability movement is examined in terms of the defensiveness which such programs have caused among educators and its emphasis on what schools cannot do rather than what they can do. (JMF)

The socialization function of education is examined through a study of how teachers' positions regarding responsibility affect the behavior and attitudes of their first-grade pupils. (LH)

Cultural pluralism is an issue that must be dealt with by the whole society but that places two specific demands upon the schools themselves: the development of a curriculum that teaches about the nature of cultural pluralism and the development of a governance system reflecting that pluralism. (MB)

Pride can be taken in the performance of secondary education in America's first 200 years, but new social and political conditions demand drastic reform in structure and program format (consistent with the body of public opinion) to better adapt secondary education to present and foreseeable future social conditions. (MB)

In a fictional account of Thomas Jefferson's writing to a modern secondary school educator and administrator, the author presents some viewpoints on the purpose and duration of public education. (MB)

Preservice teachers must be prepared to address substantial student diversity and to educate all students to higher levels of understanding and competence. Many teacher educators are not competent to prepare new teachers in this area. Several approaches to handling institutional aspects of teacher education for diversity are discussed, noting…