School and university partnerships are a key strategy for reforming education and increasing college going. Successful programs such as GEAR UP demonstrate the need to expand these relationships. Yet, practitioners find it is difficult to work between these two very different contexts. This paper explores successful practices for navigating…

The rapid education transformation in South African education over the past decade (1994-current), forced Institutions of Higher Learning to critically examine their own practices. The transformation of the post apartheid South African education system is largely driven and determined by a social and economic agenda. At institutions of higher…

Historically, reform efforts to address poor student achievement have focused on a variety of issues other than teacher quality. Movements such as TQM (Total Quality Management), class size reduction (CSR), school leadership, parental involvement, and multicultural curriculum have not directly addressed the power or influence of the individual…

Following a landmark organisational change event within the University of Western Sydney, when the university ceased operating as a federation of four distinct, inter-related elements and merged to become a single entity, four foundation College Managers made a strategic decision to form an alliance. This alliance significantly enhanced the…

A private, nonprofit corporation, New American Schools (NAS) funds the development of designs aimed at transforming entire schools at the elementary and secondary levels. This report describes a large number of NAS sites in their early implementation stages. The report is the first in a series that monitors a longitudinal sample of schools…

Author presented the criteria that he and his fellow art teachers discovered for suggesting the direction education has to take in order to develop a comprehensive program of the arts in the interests of overall good sound education. (Author/RK)

Article presented a long-range account of work which was done to stimulate self-directed change in the educational system operated by the Immaculate Heart Community, in Los Angeles and other towns. (Author/RK)

This is a brief review of the development of the external degree program in New York State and in England. The author suggests that American universities may wish to consider the external degree as a device for taking higher education out to new markets. (Editor)

This report presents a description of findings from a study of the Research and Development Utilization Program (RDU), which emphasizes a research-based approach to local school improvement. The major objectives of the report are to describe the similarities and differences that exist among the seven projects or schools of the RDU program, to…

A PLANNED APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL CHANGE FOCUSES UPON THE INTERNAL FUNCTIONING OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. RESEARCH GENERALIZATIONS INDICATING CONDITIONS WHICH INFLUENCE LEARNING ARE CITED AS A BASIS FOR A CONCEPTUAL MODEL. FROM THIS MODEL, SOME ORGANIZATIONAL FUNCTIONS WHICH NEED TO BE DEVELOPED WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM ARE DERIVED. FIVE LEVELS OF…

This document reports on a federally funded Experimental Schools project that took place over a five-year period, 1972-77, in a small, rural Oregon district. The report is primarily a narrative on change and change agentry as viewed from the perspective of school personnel. After background discussion and brief descriptions of the program,…

The Strategies for Change and Knowledge Project is a concrete attempt to apply the Lindage model to eight colleges and universities. It is completing its third year of on-campus task force action to stimulate academic reform, of linking agent, survey feedback, workshop and consultant aid to those problemsolving efforts, and of external research…

An inservice project involving twenty-four teachers during the 1976-1977 school year is described. The project includes focus on familiarity with the metric system, manipulating weights and measures, and first-hand knowledge of published texts stressing metrification. (MN)

This article provides a brief description of and early conclusions from the first Australian experiences with organizational development in schools. (Author)

Argues that a bold restructuring of curriculum is a more effective response to the problems in undergraduate history teaching than minor course innovations. Discusses the recent reformation of the history curriculum at Canada's Laval University, presenting an outline of the undergraduate history programs. (GEA)