Prejudices between these subjects begin at college and are strengthened by professional associations, whose conflicting objectives and competition for funds ignore students' needs and block comprehensive programs. Finding common goals is imperative; one school has built facilities for dual usage, utilizes team teaching, and schedules students on…

Comprehensive staff development approaches described in this paper are based on on-site work with school districts and a 1980 National Rural Project investigation of problems experienced by over 80 rural districts and cooperatives across the country as they attempted to implement staff development programs. Three models are described which…

A suspension school for secondary students, established in the 1977-78 school year in an Arkansas school district has developed specific program goals and procedures. Following a discussion of the school's origins, this paper describes operating procedures, philosophy, support system, and student reaction. Suspensions declined considerably through…