Author describes a program which has reduced the bewilderment of entering students and, at the same time, has provided an effective means of orientation and exploration. (Editor/CB)

Author considered a restructured plan for secondary education - the universal high school. (Author/RK)

The intent of this article is to propose practical curricular options which are capable of being implemented and incorporated into the existing school organization and schedule. In this way more opportunities are provided for encouraging and allowing students to pursue individual differences. (Author)

This article is based on a year-long study which centered on actual practices of individualization of instruction. Along with the various program thrusts identified in the study, factors which tend to facilitate or inhibit individualization are also revealed. (Editor)

Explores the use of faculty book clubs as a means to introduce middle school teachers to acclaimed adolescent literature, including recently published novels, in hopes that they might incorporate the books they read into their language arts and social studies classes. Examines the extent to which the book club participants incorporated the novels.…

Outlines activities intended to give students a proper approach to current affairs. (RK)

Data on schools in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. (SP)

Article examined critical evaluation of the interest-centered curriculum, one in which students meet graduation requirements by accumulating a preestablished number of course units required by their school or department. (Author/RK)

Considers the merits and faults of the voucher system and compares it to the magnet school concept, which embraces the favorable aspects of the voucher system while minimizing the principal objections to such a system. (Author/RK)

While thematic curriculum designs based on Bruner's structuralism are a great improvement over the old chronological literature anthologies, they still ignore several important contexts in which a literary work might be studied. The multifunctional approach can provide this complexity of contexts. (SJL)

In recent research undertaken by the author a panel of middle school experts judged a number of criteria to be essential in order for a school to consider itself a true middle school. The qualities included in this article for the six middle school subsystems are derived from their valuable input. (Author/RK)

Suggests conditions or safeguards advanced with the belief that conforming to them will enhance the beneficial aspects of junior high interscholastic athletic competition and act to minimize undesirable practices. (Author/RK)