Information, Imagination, and the High School Library

Abstract

1. Due to teacher strikes and a lack of funds, literally thousands of classroom teachers were out on strike at the beginning of the 1978-79 school year in such cities as Cleveland, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Pontiac, Michigan, etc. 2. count now stands at thirty-five states which are requiring minimum competencies for promotion from grade to grade or graduation from high school or both. 3. H. B. Pinkney, The Rhetoric Goes On, NASSPBulletin, March, 1975, p. 47. 4. Frank E. Armbruster, The More We Spend, Less Children Learn, New York Times Magazine, August 28, 1977, pp. 9-10. 5. Robert L. Ebel, The Case for Minimum Competency Testing,Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 59, No. 8, April 1978, p. 546. 6. Martin Hawkins, A New Look at the High School Diploma, NASSP Bulletin, October, 1978, p. 45. 7. Marylyn Huff, A Board Member Looks at Requiring Competencies for Graduation, Educational Leadership, Vol, 35, No. 2, November, 1977, p. 112. 8. H. B. Pinkney, Decentralization and Staff Development, in Staff Development: Staff Liberation, ed. Charles W. Beegle and Roy A. Edelfelt, ASCD, Washington, D.C., p. 109, 9. Robert L. Ebel, The Case for Minimum Competency Testing,Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 59, No. 8, April 1978, p. 549.