MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF SECONDARY EDUCATION - Volume 5 - Issue 3 - Spring 1964

Sep 29, 2026

This Spring 1964 issue of the Michigan Journal of Secondary Education outlines major concerns and instructional approaches for secondary schools. It opens with an editorial questioning whether teachers are insulated from real-life realities by institutional straight-jackets, and stresses the need for societal interpretation and engagement. Subsequent articles address flexible scheduling, present and potential obstacles in policy and admissions, and the educational value of evaluation and administrative organization. The issue also includes items on teacher competencies, obligations to youth, school news, and educational organization abroad.

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CategoryResearch & Report

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Pages68

Reading Time2 h 51 min

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Editorial

Insulation from Life?

Eight Questions and Answers Concerning Flexible Scheduling

Why Is Flexible Scheduling Being Emphasized?

What Problems Might Be Encountered?

The Influential Role of Evaluation in Education

Administrative Organization to Improve Instruction

Competencies of Junior High Teachers: The Need and the Reality

Providing Secondary Education for the Educable Mentally Handicapped

Our Obligation to Youth

Michigan School News in Michigan Newspapers

The Challenge Today: Quality

A Look at Organization of Education in Australia

MICHIGANMASSPJOURNAL OF SECONDARYEDUCATIONVolume 5·Number 3Spring 1964 WILLIAM H.ROEEditorProfessor,Michigan State UniversityARTHUR H.RICE,JR.,Assistant Edi-tor JOHN H.SUEHR,Assistant EditorRAY BUDDE,Chairman,MASSP Pub-lications Committee;Director of In-structional Services,East Lansing MASSP Executive Board ALLEN JOHNS,President,MichiganAssociation of Secondary School Prin-cipals;Principal,Central IntermediateSchool,Midland. ROLAND J.LEHKER,Executive Sec-retary,MASSP;Bureau of School Serv-ices,University of Michigan LEE LONSBERRY,Department Co-ordinator,Michigan Education Associa-tion BOARD MEMBERS:M.G.BURDICK,Muskegon;LOREN DISBROW,Berkley;HENRY GEISLER,MHSAA,Morenci;TED SoUTHERLAND,Bay City;C.LESTERLUCE,Niles;WILLIAM McGUIRE,Bloomfield Hills;J.R.McLEOD,Che-boygan;LEON WASKIN,DPI,Lansing;JOHN WILEY,Mt.Pleasant. The Michigan Journal of Secondary Ed-ucation is published in Fall,Winter,andSpring by the Michigan Association ofSecondary School Principals,a depart-ment of the Michigan Education As-sociation.Send form3579 for change ofaddress to 3501 Administration Build-ing,Ann Arbor,Michigan.Subscriptionfor nonmembers to both the MichiganJournal of Secondary Education and theBulletin is $3 per year. Address manuscripts to the MichiganJournal of Secondary Education,412Education Building,Michigan StateUniversity,East Lansing,Michigan. CONTENTS VoLUME 5,NUMBER 3,SPRING,1964 2 Editorial:Insulation from Life?WILLIAM H.RoE 3 Eight Questions and Answers Concerning Flexible SchedulingJoHN H.SUEHR 8 The Influential Role of Evaluation in EducationWILBUR HARRIS 12 Administrative Organization to Improve InstructionGERALD R.RASMUSSEN 20 Competencies of Junior High Teachers:The Need and the Reality MASSP TEACHER EDUCATION CoMMITTEEProviding Secondary Education 30) for the Educable Mentally HandicappedGAIL A.HARRIS AND DoNALD F.SELLIN36 Our Obligation to YouthEUGENE S.THOMAS 45 Michigan School News in Michigan NewspapersWILLIAM G.MONAHAN51 The Challenge Today:QualityLEONARD KRAFT 58 A Look at Organization of Education in AustraliaDAVD CoHEN Editorial INSULATION FROM LIFE? Are teachers cloaked in institutional straight-jackets which insulatethem from the realities of life?Evidence suggests that teachers are keptso engrossed in straight teaching that in too many cases they are teach-ing the subject without real consideration for the child and the life hewill live.Perhaps this lack of societal interpretation and involvementby teachers is intensifying some of our national problems. Modern life has pressed some urgent and sharply-defined tasks oneducation,tasks of producing certain specially-needed kinds of edu-cated talent.Yet talented people live in a world peopled with averagepeople.For the sake of our future we cannot neglect the great basicgoals of our educational system:to foster individual fulfillment and tonurture the free,rational,responsible men and women without whomour kind of society cannot endure.Our schools must prepare all youngpeople,whatever their talents,for the serious business of being par-ticipating citizens of our society. Yet how often do administrators arrange to have their teachers gettogether as a group of professional educators to discuss major problemsof our society and to determine what small or large part education,their school,or they as individual teachers can do about them? Has your faculty discussed drop-outs,integration,the culturally de-prived,unemployment,automation,goals of democracy today,pocketsof poverty,or religion and the state?These are national problems.Theywill never be solved by the usually recommended cure-all of federalaid alone.In the end they will be solved by the people—the citizens-to-be who are graduates of our schools. W.H.R. # EIGHT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSCONCERNING FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING An expanding population can be a deterrent to desirable interpersonalrelationships,unless a counteracting influence is exercised which per-sonalizes var

FAQs

What concern does the editorial raise about teachers' role in society?

It questions whether teachers are insulated from real-life realities by institutional practices that keep them focused on straight teaching rather than interpreting society and the child’s future needs.

Why does the journal emphasize flexible scheduling in secondary schools?

It is driven by systematic scrutiny, research, and experimentation, with the goal of individualizing instruction because students vary in backgrounds, abilities, interests, and learning processes.

What limitation is mentioned regarding predicting college success from high school records?

The text notes that existing admissions criteria based on grades, credits, subjects, and related measures do not reliably show what students know or what they can do in a college setting.

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