This article sets forth a group process approach useful for practicing administrators charged with a program development task. Meeting formats are suggested for involving critical reference groups in successive phases of program Development. (Author)

Exploring the roots of ecological problems through an analysis outline is performed. Constantly searched for are factors with the most ramifications and with the most causal relevance. (BL)

Discusses the identity of language problems among elementary school students and suggests ways to help solve them. (GB)

Modular arithmetic is used to show that there is at least one Friday the 13th in every year. A case-by-case proof is outlined and a proof of the general case is given. (DT)

Discusses a non-traditional unstructured laboratory approach designed to acquaint students with analytical techniques through the identification of two unknowns, one as a single component and one in a mixture, and the reading for the course facilitated by a detailed report on nine syntheses recently reported in the literature. (CP)

The major value of games is the development of problem-solving and decision-making skills--a value that has not always been achieved under traditional methods of teaching or by some of the other recent innovations, such as programmed or televised lessons. (Author/JS)

The nature of a planning and control system used by the Federal Government is discussed. The system is compared and contrasted with Dewey's method of inquiry, and an evaluation is made, using Dewey's philosophy as a frame of reference, of the system approach. (DB)

Describes a program using face-to-face confrontation, role training, and other problem solving activities to equip supervisors for effective communication, counseling, and personal involvement in the training of the hard core unemployed. (LY)

The most economical means of extracting salt from a salt mine is posed as a simulation problem for middle school students. (CP)

The author integrates three sets of ideas related to consulting with teachers: behavior modification, the helping relationship, and the processes and skills of problem solving. (Author)

Author proposes a way to view the act of composing, and hence the course in composition, that might help the course to serve the ends of liberal education better than, in the eyes of some, it is now doing. (Author/RY)

The problems of the educational administrator in solving crises arising in his school and within his students and ways to meet these crises are discussed in detail. (CK)