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Publication Date: 1971
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Schools for the 70's and Beyond: A Call to Action. A Staff Report. Schools for the 70's Series, Main Report.
Greenleaf, Warren T.; Griffin, Gary A.
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)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Centralization, Class Organization, Classroom Design, Curriculum Development, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Humanism, Relevance (Education), School Organization, State Departments of Education, Student Evaluation, Student Needs, Teacher Qualifications
National Education Association, Publications-Sales Section, 1201 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 ($2.25)
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Authoring Institution: National Education Association, Washington, DC. Center for the Study of Instruction.
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