This research evaluated the impact on students' academic achievements of a pre-college outreach programme implemented by a Chilean higher education institution. This programme benefits students in their last year of secondary education so they can better adapt to post-secondary education. Specifically, we assessed whether freshmen enrolled in 2017…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test the feasibility of a conceptual model on relations between organisational innovation, knowledge productivity and social capital. It explores processes of knowledge productivity for sustainable innovation and associated HRD implications in knowledge intensive organisations, taking the perspective that…

The programs of two junior and one senior high school are described to illustrate how these schools are complying with Title IX requirements for coeducational physical education classes. (MJB)

Reviews research on Australian initiatives to introduce senior school or multi-campus models of secondary education provision and presents three case studies to examine the potential of this approach. Asserts that the approach facilitates the provision of a broad and relevant curriculum, provides a more appropriate schooling environment for…

Activities of the Owen O. Sabin Occupational Skills Center are described to illustrate an effective vocational education complex. (MJB)

Offers a brief overview of the process undertaken by one school district in Missouri to explore and then implement a schedule change (in particular a block program)--a process involving parents, teachers, administrators, school board members, and students. (SR)

The Schoolwide Enrichment Model, originally designed for academically gifted students, is currently used to develop the gifts and talents of a much wider pool of students. One SEM component, the Total Talent Portfolio, focuses attention on student interests and learning-style preferences. This article explains how SEM, combined with curriculum…

Presents one teacher's experience of organizing and producing a high school theatrical group specializing in performances for younger children. Describes recruitment of students, writing the script, rehearsals, performances, and student feedback. Argues that such an undertaking is English education at its best.(HB)

Describes the experience of teachers and administrators at a middle school in Georgia as they faced the challenge of developing a curriculum for a character education program. Looks at how character education has been viewed across the century. Discusses the development by parents and educators of this character education program, its…

This report is concerned with the analysis and implementation of intervention strategies designed to reduce disproportionate suspensions of minority students. As the final phase of a two-phase study, this report consists of three components: (1) continued monitoring of suspension data; (2) field studies in four Jefferson County, Kentucky, public…

Bilingualism is a delicate subject in Wales. The author visited a new school in Anglesey where 85 percent of the children have Welsh as their mother tongue. (Editor)

The purposes of this paper are at least threefold: (1) to identify and explain mediation as a process constituting a deliberate set of sequential acts and nonacts as an appropriate means for peaceful, impartial crisis resoluation of inter racial violence between/among students in secondary public schools; (2) to present mediation as a viable…

Case studies of two schools that demonstrate approaches to a liaison between mathematics and science are presented. The establishment of a combined mathematics-science faculty is the most obvious factor that tends to lead to a school's success in achieving a liaison. Additional factors are also considered. (MP)

Five case studies illustrate "good practice" in integrating handicapped secondary students. The articles focus on programs in Italy, the U.S., England, and Norway. Papers on the Scuola Di Rienzo on Rome and the Drayton School in Oxfordshire, England describe lower secondary schools. The Rome program was once a special school for…