TY - JOUR
AU1 - G.Shane, Harold
AB - Book Reviews to elementary school children), the reader often feels required to search unnecessarily hard for understanding in several of the chapters. This could be a fault of the author's writing style, or the examples he employs, or what some might regard as his quasi-technical terminology. This reviewer earlier mentioned the problem of definition—system analysis versus systems analysis. This problem is further complicated by the substitution of words that are really not synonymous. For example, "functions" are referred to as outcomes, tasks, steps, and activities; "system analysis" is a tool, a process, and a technique; in one place the reader learns that system analysis is a process for analyzing a problem into its related parts, yet in another he finds that is is a way of identifying those functions that must be performed in order to solve the problem. These shifts in meaning and terminology tend to confuse the reader and send him scurrying back and forth in the book in search of meaning. Educational System Planning requires more than a casual reading; it requires study followed by practice. The author has anticipated this and wisely furnished exercises at the conclusion of each chapter. The well selected bibliography should 
TI - Book Reviews: Polk, Kenneth, and Schafer, Walter E. (Eds.) Schools and Delinquency. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972. 282 +vipp. $6.95 cloth, $3.95 paper.: 
JF - American Educational Research Journal
DO - 10.3102/00028312010002141
DA - 2016-11-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-reviews-polk-kenneth-and-schafer-walter-e-eds-schools-and-2MZWcLvMgK
SP - 141
EP - 143
VL - 10
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -