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After reviewing the postwar development of British policy on technical education, this essay cites research implying that technical students' abilities differ from university students' chiefly in verbal skills, and contends that the abilities actually needed for technical occupations may be largely unrecognized and undervalued by teachers and society. (MJL)

A discussion of the usefulness of reasoning, as compared to experience, in three levels of decision making in school management informs this critique of the state of educational management theory and research. (MJL)

Emphasizing a distinction between administration, a value-laden activity, and management, which is concerned with achievement, this essay characterizes the adaptable school district as one showing client-oriented planning at the administrative level and flexibility at the management level. Development of a more refined model for organizational adaptability is recommended. (MJL)

This essay discusses options for a national program of inservice teacher training, a responsibility recently rejected by the British government, and proposes a career structure designed to attract and keep the best teachers. (MJL)

Educational administrators facing change are offered some observations of business management, including an analysis of characteristic responses to change from rich to poor environments, a catalog of managerial styles likely to be discouraged or rewarded in present economic conditions, and recommended practices for managing contraction, especially by reducing fixed costs. (MJL)