While pressures to revise administrator evaluation systems are increasing, the actual process demands great time, energy, and commitment to planned change. This article describes a large urban school district's efforts to redefine evaluation purposes, develop a process and principles, and implement and assess the new system. Includes 23…

Offers recommendations to help advocates of the team approach in group care facilities for children and adolescents overcome some of the problems they may have with implementing team models according to their own designs. (NH)

Describes 11 Appalachian Regional Commission funded projects designed to improve education in Kentucky, many of which focus on dropout prevention, including Laurel County Alternative School, Owsley County Dropout Prevention Program, ADOPT, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Technical Assistance Grant, potential projects, documentary on dropout…

Describes Pontiac Central High School's (Michigan) Seven O'Clock Scholars' Program for talented and gifted students, which is designed to offer enrichment activities across the grade 9-12 curriculum without pulling students out of class or interfering with extracurricular or work activities. Describes program origins, beginnings, support. (DMM)

The author outlines an approach to competency-based education and lists factors vital to its statewide implementation. He covers advantages of statewide implementation and components of such a system, including commitment of state leaders, laws and policies, a supportive university system, and staff development. (CH)

Describes the implementation of a writing across the curriculum program at one university's writing center. Discusses solutions to counter the strains placed on the center by this additional program. (MM)

Discusses the design and implementation of programs to prepare the technology education teacher of the future. Teacher educators can review and implement trends in the philosophical and curricular development of the profession and move into meeting the trends of curriculum innovation in secondary schools. (JOW)

This article provides an overview of the inception, development, and evaluation process of a program developed to enhance the educational opportunities provided by the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College to those over 55. (JOW)

This case study examines the reform of the teaching of French in the primary schools of French-speaking Switzerland. Two major questions are examined: (1) What are the real motives for introducing a new reading methodology? and (2) How can a methodology on paper be transformed into practical action?

The concepts of mutual adaptation and mutual accomplishment are used in an analysis of implementation of a delinquency prevention research and development program. Success from the perspective of both the developer and the participant is described. (DF)

This article places efforts to institutionalize practice in the context of their historical antecedents. It also describes developments at the University of Pennsylvania in what the authors are calling a partnership. The clinician-educator faculty position is examined at length. (CT)

Focuses on a realistic approach for generating new activity among industrial education programs. Topics included involve successful methods for approaching the private sector; advantages of involving professionals from industry; and an outline of an existing local program and guidelines to implement a similar type of program. (CT)

Outlines three different models of formal experiential education: instruction group process, simulation and games, and field experience. Describes the development of the Field Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley and examines the process by which all three traditions were effectively integrated into the program. (SB)

Outlines implementation and uses of the computerized question-banking system of the thesaurus-linked browse procedure used by APU National Assessment in Science Programme. The ROOT Thesaurus, a comprehensive indexing and searching tool for technological applications, is described and its modifications are discussed as the basis for the…

Explains the need and the disincentives for after-school child care for children aged 5-11. Describes the history of child care in Tennessee. Notes child care models in Tennessee communities with after-school programs in the schools, describes program curriculum and implementation, and answers frequent questions about such programs. (SB)