The National Career Information System provides software, occupational and educational information, and technical assistance to operating agencies in 16 states. This article summarizes successful characteristics of programs in secondary schools, as identified in an 11-state study, and describes programs in Idaho and Georgia. (six references) (MLH)

Named as Title I director for the Espanola (New Mexico) School District in the mid-1960s, Gilbert Martinez redirected the early grants from equipment purchases to development of kindergartens, centralized elementary school libraries, and free lunch programs. New Mexico's program improvement mandates stress curriculum integration and evaluation…

Administrators can create a climate of caring in today's schools despite negative characterizations toward education. This article describes attempts to improve school climate at an inner-city school in Durham, North Carolina. Cooperative learning, increased community participation, and action research facilitated by a partnership with the…

Local education authorities in the United Kingdom are drawing up policies for implementing principal evaluation. This article describes three case studies based on observations of three elementary school principals' daily activities. The exercise raised several issues, including the need for a whole school approach, a clearly delineated appraisal…

Describes Direction 2000, a high school holistic school improvement project based on the American Library Association's Presidential Committee on Information Literacy Report (1989). Despite scarce funds, students need more time to learn through discovery, evaluation, and application of information sources. Libraries must be an integral part of…

Neither health education nor suspension appears to help tobacco-addicted students cut back or stop smoking completely. This article describes a Long Island high school's efforts to help 27 (volunteer) students develop their own smoke-cessation program. Most participants, who had begun smoking in middle school, reduced their tobacco dependency, and…

Describes an aviation/aerospace teacher-education workshop that allows elementary school teachers to become familiar with aviation fundamentals and issues and with ways to incorporate aviation topics into their curricula. (JOW)

Presents WebShaman, an application built to demonstrate how a distributed virtual prototyping system with a client/server architecture, could support geographically distant designer/customer communication. Provides an overview of smart virtual prototyping; discusses implementation of synchronous collaboration via the World Wide Web; and assesses…

Reports on characteristics of summer-term projects for migrant students, types of services offered, and student records systems. About 1,700 Migrant Education-Basic Grant Program projects operated in 1998, serving approximately 262,000 migrant students. Most of the projects were small, and almost all provided academic instruction. (Author/SLD)

Electronic publishing is the grandest revolution in the capture and dissemination of academic and professional knowledge since Caxton developed the printing press. This article examines electronic publishing, describes different electronic publishing scenarios (authors' cooperative, consolidator/retailer/agent oligopsony, publisher oligopoly), and…

Illustrates a new model for innovative enterprises by reviewing the process an instruments and control systems manufacturer used to implement changes in its corporate operating philosophy. Outlines the "Quantum Model": spheres of control, influence, interest, and UNs (unknown, unpredictable, uncontrollable, uncomfortable). Discusses…

Describes how Georgia Nugent brings her training as a classicist and her credibility as a scholar and teacher to her job leading Princeton's efforts in instructional technology. (EV)

Describes a collegial assistance network that has been established in Hawaii for professional development for school library media specialists. Focuses on a research-based analysis of the key principles and processes involved in its successful planning and implementation. (Author/AEF)

Provides an approach to ensure that courses are implemented as designed. Highlights include training the trainers and peer teaching, the need for cooperation between the course development and delivery teams, the use of technology, using subject matter experts, and evaluation through telephone interviews that supports this approach. (LRW)

Discusses implementation of tech prep in rural areas and notes that relatively little research has been done on behalf of small town schools. Teachers' comments regarding tech prep implementation provide additional insight into the situation. (JOW)