Summary of address to 1971 AFT-QuEST Truth-&-Soul-in-Teaching" conference. (RT)

This article deals with creating options for schools with staff problems. It suggests a practical methodology for helping schools fight the effects of bureaupathology. (Editor)

As part of the activities establishing the National Institute of Education, a Planning Unit evolved to obtain advice from experts on what the objectives, activities, and organizational structures of the new organization should be. This overview, part of the Planning Unit studies, lists and analyzes educational problems. An introduction presents a…

If communication problems and the resulting feelings of powerlessness are concerns for experienced teachers, what must the problems and concerns of first-year teachers be? A workshop designed to gather information about the concerns and problems of twenty-five first-year junior high school teachers is discussed. (Author/RK)

Explains that the social paradigm underlying our dilemmas in education and in the society as a whole is changing, and offers some suggestions for how we should operate schools in a time of transition. (IRT)

This model for solving educational problems consists of four major steps: (1) the problem is defined and verified; (2) solution criteria are established; (3) solution alternatives are surveyed; and (4) a solution is selected. "Problem" is defined as the discrepancy between an existing condition and a desired condition. This model is to be…

A project involving three vocational technical and adult education (VTAE) districts in Wisconsin was undertaken to develop and field test a model for improving the bridge between school, cultures, and the world of work for American Indians. Each of the districts had unique needs which necessitated differing methodologies to achieve the project…

The report begins with a brief examination of the role of computer modeling in management decision-making. Then, some of the difficulties of implementing computer modeling are examined, and finally, the educational implications of these issues are raised, and a comparison is made between what is currently being done and what might be done to…

Following a review of basic educational, social, and health constraints faced by single pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents, an urban community's action program directed to this group is described. The organizational structure of the action program is presented as a model for others to explore. (Author)

Argues for a model of in-service training which allows teachers to learn "without a sense of demeaning themselves". (Editor)

This "Study Outline on Differentiated Staffing" is a compilation of writings on the subject designed to highlight the major assumptions and elements. The outline items are reported directly as they appear in the literature, many ideas keyed to the 59-item bibliography which is included. The author's comments and suggestions are inserted…

Educators, replacing substance with form in their dialogs, argue over symptoms and fail to consider causes. No coherent analysis links practice to social reality, because low-level sloganeering replaces useful analytic language. Particularly offensive, career education, another energy-draining slogan, has clearly reactionary potential. Two…

Procedures package includes (1) general introduction, (2) director's handbook, and (3) three exercise--in pull-out format.

The Total Performance System (TPS) concept, a conceptual tool to aid management of a wide variety of complex systems such as classrooms, courses, schools, and businesses is presented as a unit of analysis for systems approaches to educational and management problems. A description of the TPS concept defines the classroom as a processing system…