This document contains reports of research findings considered of special relevance for school board members. The introduction summarizes the project which involved selecting, abstracting, analyzing, and interpreting research on 27 topics. Each of the 27 resumes (written in "layman's language") includes questions, review of studies, implications, and references. Titles are Causes of Teacher Militancy; Community Support for Education: Elections Involving School Issues; Issues and Settlements in Teacher Strikes; Decisive Factors in Potential Strike Situations; Evaluation of School Public Relations Programs; Approaches to School-Community Relations; Public Opinion of the Schools; Trends in Teacher Strike Activity; Teacher Turnover: Why Teachers Leave Their Jobs; Public Expectations of Boards of Education; Mass Media in School-Community Relations; Teacher Interview and Selection Techniques; Joint Endeavors of the Community and School; Decision-Making and Budgets; Communicating with the Public; Recruitment Sources: Where to Find New Teachers; Decision-Making and Systems Analysis; Techniques for Recruiting Teachers; Teacher Evaluation Methods; Teacher Selection Practices: Summary of a Conference; Letters of Recommendation in Teacher Selection; School and Community Conflict; Power Structure Relation to School Boards; The Impact of Collective Negotiations upon the Schools; Decision-Making by Groups and Individuals; Adoption of Educational Innovations; School Board Participation in Administrator Selection. Appendixes include the advisory committee reports and 60 research abstracts. (JS)