Article presented a range of potential topics for local community studies. Author's intention was to assist students to become talented and insightful citizens who might build and support a community at the grass roots level. As well, these community studies provided practical situations in which theoretical information from the social sciences…

Concord High, in New York City, provides an intensive education program in which one subject (English, science, mathematics, or foreign language) is studied in depth each quarter. With a heterogeneous student population, the school offers a variety of learning methods and close student faculty relationships. (SJL)

Focuses on issues regarding the training of administrators in evaluation processes and the use of teacher evaluations for growth potential as well as termination. (JC)

Describes the development and implementation of a writing project for which students wrote letters to senior citizens. Reflects on students' writing improvement and positive attitude toward writing. (SRT)

Presents teachers' and students' criticisms of teacher preparation programs at the University of Illinois, Northern Illinois University, and New Mexico State University and of student teaching in particular. (SRT)

Describes the program developed by one California school district to meet the requirements of legislation concerning the training and evaluation of probationary staff. (FL)

Addresses some of the major issues discussed in the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Discusses possible reasons for student avoidance of math and science courses. (EL)

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)

Article deals with some positive actions that have been taken by the staff, administration, and board of education of Lewiston-Porter Central School of Youngstown, New York in regard to student involvement in the planning process. Specific methods of student involvement were briefly outlined. (Author/RK)

An educational architecture based on six years of elementary school, four years of high school, four years of college, and whatever years of university work that may be necessary for a Masters, Doctorate, or professional degree is described. (DB)

Article considered the plight of youngsters confined to juvenile correctional institutions and then placed back in the mainstream of life without preparation for the changes they will have to undergo. A project designed to change this situation was presented. (Editor/RK)

Since 1978, the University of Washington has offered two of its freshman writing courses at Sequim High School, for advanced students wishing to earn college credit. The author discusses program's operations, advantages, and disadvantages, and compares it to the Advanced Placement Program. (SJL)

Because parents have abdicated to schools the responsibility for teaching ethics, New Rochelle High School has developed a "Curriculum For Caring" based on the ideas of Urie Bronfenbrenner. The authors describe the general content and objectives of this required program and note that student absenteeism and misbehavior have declined.…

Discusses a teacher training program for secondary school English teachers. Part of the course would be to familiarize education students with many different philosophies of education, part would be a study of English educators who hold differing views on what should be taught in the English classroom. (Author/RK)