This qualitative study examines the perspectives of high school-and college-age students who participated in an educational program designed to increase the number of Latino students entering teaching as a profession: Latino Educators of Tomorrow. Using open-ended surveys and semistructured interviews, this study identified themes regarding the…

The recent policy focus on the turnaround of persistently low-achieving schools has generated considerable debate about the reforms needed to dramatically and quickly increase school performance. The purpose of this article is not to focus on specific turnaround interventions, but rather on the identification of schools slated to receive these…

School improvement efforts often focus on students who perform below grade level. These improvement efforts typically focus on improving instruction, often through a framework and professional development. The question remains, how do students who are gifted and talented respond to this type of instruction? We observed 48 students in their…

In this technological age, the definition of private, public, and protected speech and expression for today's school employees is largely misunderstood and unclear. This article addresses the current legal standards as well as some recent case law involving teacher speech and expression and its major implications for addressing teacher online…

This article discusses the outcomes of a partnership between four high schools and one university to reduce the need for remediation in reading and writing. The purpose of the partnership was to build relationships between secondary and postsecondary faculty and to create a senior year English Transition course for students who did not meet ACT…

The development of practical educational programs for administrative personnel is discussed. (CK)

Results and conclusions of an attempt in Los Angeles to bring PPBS to the teachers. (Editor)

In 2002, Early College High Schools Initiative became a reality across the United States for students and educators looking for ways to improve student graduation rates, college attendance, and overall student achievement. This mixed method case study found that (a) the early college high school environment supported the academic success of…

Standards of performance of administrative interns have not been developed, so the author contends, with the result that effective evaluation cannot be made. He proposes performance objectives for such internships to reduce the uncertainty and irrelevance of what an intern learns by doing. (Editor)

A leading proponent of behavioral objectives, author provides persuasive argument on how objectives can be used to bring about classroom accountability. The principal, he says, must be aware of real and specious teacher-performance assessment. (Editor)

The purpose of this article is to explore the current situations and trends in junior high/middle school mathematics. To assist in this effort, an organizational scheme based on an instructional-process model of goals, objectives, methods, materials, and evaluation will be used. (Author)

This article briefly critiques management by objectives (MBO) as a means of specifying administrator tasks and then describes the implementation of MBO in the West Bloomfield School District, Orchard Lake, Michigan. (Author/DS)

The author uses behavioral objectives as the framework for developing an evaluation system with a simple approach. He believes that simplicity is the key to successful implementation of evaluation systems. (MD)