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Five papers focus on the interrelated themes of school organization and innovation. They report on some preliminary analyses of field studies conducted during 1968 on such structural, sociocultural, and sociopsychological variables as division of labor, performance of organizational functions, decision making studies and processes, hierarchies of authority and esteem, rule observation, value systems, reward systems, and leadership. The authors and their studies are (1) Max G. Abbott, "Programmatic Research and Development on Innovativeness and the Organizational Attributes of Schools;" (2) Terry L. Eidell, Ronald Little, and Jon Thorlacius, "Uniformity and Variability in the Organizational Characteristics of Elementary Schools;" (3) Nico Stehr, George Lewis, and Roland J. Pellegrin, "Task Differentiation in Elementary Schools: An Exploratory Analysis;" (4) Charles J. Dudley, Keith F. Smith, and Roland J. Pellegrin, "The Decision-Making Structure of Schools;" and (5) Max G. Abbott and C. Michael Stuart, "The School Over Time: Our Findings Compared with Those of Waller." (HW)