Though many programs for undecided students focus on the "developing purpose" vector, the author argues that putting purpose before competency is putting the cart before the horse. In this article, she shares practical strategies she has used to help her students at the University of Arizona reach competence in understanding the academic world.…

Adapting support contingently to student needs by first diagnosing their current understanding, that is, scaffolding, is considered a key aspect of excellent teaching. The use of classroom scaffolding is rare, however. We therefore investigated the benefits to teachers of a professional development program that was based upon a model of contingent…

During the second semester of the 1971-72 school year, a pilot effort was initiated to use Eastern Airlines personnel as volunteer teachers. With the assistance of Eastern Airlines Officials and the Dade County Public Schools Division of Instruction, six community schools in the Northeast, North Central and South Central districts were opened to…

Article gives comments by students and the interaction that took place during an exchange trip between two groups of youngsters whose environment, way of life, and even language were different. (GB)

Briefly describes the curriculum at Hampshire College, an experimental school that has attempted to restructure liberal education. (Author/PG)

Focuses on future trends in postsecondary education and their implications for institutional planners and researchers. The four projections are: increased enrollment of the nontraditional student, rise of alternative educational institutions, decreased undergraduate vocational preparation, and diminution of compulsory education. (Editor/PG)

The Staples Governing Board of Staples High School, Westport, Connecticut, is an attempt to give students a voice in cooperative educational decision-making. (Author/DR)

The Self-Instruction Center is the name given to the location for students who participate in an experimental project at Webber Junior High School in Saginaw, Michigan for students experiencing behavioral as well as learning difficulties. (Authors/CB)

This project furnishes students of high school age with a learning model that is a decided contrast from the currently traditional public school system. (Author)

Describes the Three Dimensional Project", a program which has been established in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to utilize the community as a learning laboratory and to expand and redefine the classroom. (Author/DR)

Discusses the need to be flexible and restructure foreign language departments and courses to meet student needs. Describes a four-year, second language program with a nonliterary emphasis, designed for nonforeign language majors as one way to do this. (EKN)

Dual organization of faculty and curriculum provides flexible, interdisciplinary undergraduate program that leads to concentration in an engineering specialty. In operation for two years, the plan has utilized teaching staff and facilities more effectively, and provided students with a broader than usual perspective of engineering. (WM)

In the past decade, many colleges and universities have reduced or eliminated the number of required general education courses, which had the original purpose of assuring a 'well-rounded' liberal education. The important question is how such curriculum reforms, which increase student choice as opposed to university choice of courses, affect the…

Dicusses the Staples Governing Board which was instituted at Staples High School, Westport, Connecticut, in order to give all members of the school community - students, teachers, and administrators, decision making powers. (DR)

The process is described by which Aquinas College developed a series of seminars for adults into an ongoing "college." Problems of recruitment and fund raising are discussed, but the program is judged as successful based on the response of students. (JSR)