Fostering Articulation Within and Between Schools. Commission on Schools Occasional Paper No. 1.

The purpose of this booklet is to help elementary and secondary schools improve vertical articulation within their k-12 instructional programs. Although some authorities maintain that only an ungraded program can ultimately solve the articulation problem, this booklet describes a number of steps that can be taken to improve articulation within an administrative structure of rigidly graded schools and highly departmentalized programs. Separate short chapters discuss factors contributing to articulation problems, administrative responsibility for articulation, the role of guidance in articulation, the teacher's role in articulation, and implementation of a program of articulation. A brief review of selected literature on articulation is also included. (Author/JG)