Describes a system for dealing effectively with middle school students' learning and behavior problems through a team approach. (Author/DS)

Social promotion is accomplishing what it was intended to do; it is relieving the various grades of over-age, floundering students. If we are to help these potential failures, we must devise new educational systems. (Editor)

Concerned about the lack of specific inservice programs for urban school administrators, the authors of this article describe how the Danforth Foundation's program helped its 15 participants from Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Louisville during the first year of existence. (Editor)

Describes a New Jersey, principal-initiated program to change the undesirable behavior of disruptive, underachieving youngsters. Although the anticipated 80 percent success rate was not realized, results showed the positive growth recorded in most areas was impressive. (Author/LD)

Describes the scheduling changes that allowed for program improvement at the New Platz, New York, Middle School. (DS)

Vandalism, trespassing, drug traffic, crowd control, automobile traffic, and emergencies such as fire or storms--these are the kinds of problems a school security system should be designed to eliminate or minimize. A preventive program can save more money than it costs and can improve the learning environment at the same time, says this writer.…

Discusses the importance for teachers of conflict resolution through negotiation and describes a model teachers' workshop on conflict resolution. (JG)

Describes the development of ongoing, clearly defined, and structured problem-solving and shared decision-making machinery that has upgraded the role and importance of intermediate supervisors with concomitant benefits in their morale and their contributions to the school at large. (Author/IRT)

Profiles two San Antonio high schools' creative discipline approaches to supplement their official policies. At one high school, staff find out what "carrot" will work for grounding their "frequent-flier" kids. This usually involves devising attendance/behavior contracts for earning driving or other privileges. The other school has an…

For schools that are too large to give individualized attention to student problems, the house system's team approach to problem-solving responsibility may be the answer. One house organization plan is explained in detail here. (Editor)

Considerable concern is focused today on whether the twelfth grade program meets the needs of today's students. Cites some reasons for the concern and some actions that can be taken to overcome it. (Editor)

This paper presents a model using an educational strategy employed in a New Hampshire high school and suggests that this model, and other learning models, can be more widely applied in social problem solving, particularly before sanctions based on medical and legal models are employed. (Editor)

A traditional, authoritarian approach to attendance problems can't work in today's school, this writer believes. He explains a successful attendance program needs to be based on positive reinforcement--making each student feel involved in his own education. The plan described here is flexible enough to satisfy those parents who prefer the…

Describes the Middle-Management Center at Tulane University, which through simultaneous research and action seeks to develop the problem-solving capabilities of principals. (JG)

To improve student's reading scores on the Test of Achievement and Proficiency, a rural Georgia high school initiated an improvement program based on Deming's continuous-improvement model in fall 1995. This model allows those closest to the problem to resolve it. By working continuously to improve students' testing environment, test-taking…