Offers suggestions about how principals can avoid problems with substitute teachers, including location, selection, and preparation of subs; provision of appropriate information and materials; and evaluation. (WD)

School boards do not always say what they mean when they list qualities they want in a new superintendent, and candidates for the office of superintendent are equally roundabout in their statements. This article explains the intent of some common statements made by both groups. (WD)

Indicates that ambiguity, one of the major faults of technical prose, occurs in at least six ways: ambiguity by implication, ambiguous word order, ambiguous words, dangling participles, improper or missing punctuation, and faulty pronoun reference. Suggests cures for each and provides examples for students to discuss and correct. (TJ)

Behavior modification procedures are described for establishing compliant behavior in elective mutes. The results are discussed for three children to whom the procedure was applied. Two of the three subjects generalized responsive and spontaneous language from the experimental to everyday settings. (Author)

Examines the interdependent relationships between organizational climate and communication climate. Six critical dimensions of organizational climate are discussed in terms of their perceived impact on dual typologies of the communication climate. Concludes with an analysis of the suggested relationship between organizational climate and…

This study investigated effects of: (1) task-oriented communication and non-task-oriented communication on group outcome; and (2) visual impairment on intragroup and intergroup communication in competitive situations. The results showed that amounts of task-oriented interaction was significant in determining goal accomplishment, while…

Relates personal experiences of a high school newspaper adviser who found that she was out-of-touch with the mainstream of the school; offers suggestions to advisers and staffs who feel that their situation is similar. (GT)

States that teachers can help students overcome problems with clarity by showing them how to become more sensitive to the reader's ignorance of the writer's intentions; presents sample sentences from students' writing to illustrate writing problems that force the reader to examine the sentences a second time. (DD)

Notes that school desegregation is an enormously complex issue, and that the media in the U.S. reports on desegregation, as a rule, with very little understanding of the history of the legal, political and educational intricacies involved. (Author)

The major flaw in students' writing, inappropriate and inaccurate repetition, is also the major flaw of the mass media. (DD)

Effective communication is a two-way process. Educators must be willing to listen to parents and create convenient, comfortable avenues and forums. A Missouri school reversed the usual parent-teacher conference format, allowing parents to lead discussions about their children's strengths and weaknesses. Parents enjoyed this format, and teachers…

Attempts to identify elements of universal language and probes the limitations of the communication metaphor. Universal language is discussed in terms of the theory of quantum nonlocality and the implications of this theory for communication with extraterrestrial beings. (PCB)

Excerpts from a recent interview with Netherlands author Annie M. G. Schmidt describe her background and her career as a writer of poems and stories for young children. The interviewer notes that few of Schmidt's works have been translated into English and that their lack of exchange is a persistent difficulty in the field of children's…

Makes a case for dialogic translation, a process in which the translator anticipates the response of the child reader, listens to the reader, and reaches out to the child. This process contrasts with the view that the only way to translate well is to reproduce the original text as faithfully as possible. (NH)

Educators need to be as assertive as their banker, lawyer, doctor, and business counterparts at informing Congressional members of urgent needs and future plans. Contact does sway votes. Lawmakers need to see concrete education successes achieved through federal efforts, along with dropout figures and leaky roofs. (MLH)