Ernest M. Schuttenberg

Ways of thinking about the future: Implications for nontraditional graduate education

Post-secondary educational institutions are characterized by their seemingly inherent resistance to the nontraditional. Understanding ways of thinking about the future, however, will help the educator who has nontraditional ideas to plan and implement these ideas more effectively. This article presents different orientations to thinking about the future and employs futures analysis techniques for discussing some of the major ideas in the previous articles in this special journal issue.

Toward Educational Excellence in an Urban Junior High School

An organizational climate that provides a partici pating atmosphere for students, teachers, and parents is essential to the success of an educational program. The following article describes one junior high school principals efforts to create such a cli mate in his school.