This book is a comprehensive staff report addressed to the United Teaching Profession as a basis to improve America's schools. Contents include: Section 1, The setting: a note of urgency; are schools to blame? the traditional role of education; the fruits of success; the new focus of change: humaneness in education; and, barriers to humane school. Section 2, The Humanistic School: the system; Problems: who's in charge here? the reaction to centralization; reemerging constituencies; action toward solution: diffusion of governance; the problems of power sharing; and, school must respond. The instructional program; Problem: an irrelevant curriculum--student needs, parent concerns; action toward solution: a relevant program; Problem: Classroom organization--individual differences, the uniform environment; action toward solution: evaluation for diagnosis--evaluation vs. grading; new concepts for evaluation; implications of diagnostic evaluation for the schools; strategies for action; The Humane Program; the teachers; Problems: the lack of appropriate teacher control, etc.; the students; Problems: cultural and ethnic differences, etc.; school finance. Section 3, The United Teaching Profession Acts, and epilogue. (JM)