Collected are reports of experimental instructional projects and educational programs generated by teachers at the Big Ten universities. The purpose is to exchange information among college teachers, administrators, and educational researchers about ways to improve the conditions for learning. The focus is on changes in a particular discipline…

This booklet is the second in a series of annual publications that list and describe a wide array of promising and innovative educational practices in hopes of stimulating the development of alternative educational delivery systems and strategies involving students, teachers, administrators, and parents. Included in the booklet are brief…

Describes the development and use of Mediatron, a multimedia teaching aid, to teach principles of on-line searching, basic command languages, data base structure, and specialized search techniques. An exact replica of a search is displayed on a VDU, accompanied by a voice commentary and visual slide images displayed on a screen. (CWM)

Continuing education for rural Americans is seen as a "step-child" to conventional on-campus programs. Elements of the British Open University are explored with the view of adapting them to American rural continuing education. (KR)

First discusses the history of the Chautauqua as an adult education Institution and its influence on this nation's adult continuing education programs. Then presents the genesis and outcomes of a field trip to the Chautauqua Institution in New York taken by a group of university graduate students and their faculty. (EM)

A description is given of an inservice faculty development model for career education awareness which successfully produced affective and cognitive training by developing (1) awareness of and (2) response to the career education movement, and (3) knowledge of and (4) application of career education concepts, issues, and materials. (MJB)

Schools must help students develop the ability to evaluate and make reasoned choices about personal and society-wide economic issues. One strategy that research has shown can help schools teach economic literacy is called DEEP, an acronym for the Developmental Economic Education Program. Steps for implementing DEEP are described. (RM)

Because of the difficulty that recent graduates with advanced history degrees have finding employment, universities are implementing public history programs which educate historians for nontraditional jobs, e.g., careers with public service agencies or government. One such program, the Western Washington University Graduate Program in Archival and…

Describes several innovative programs at Lake-Lehman High School (Pennsylvania), including nutrition breaks, assembly programs, and the "Paint the School" project. Presents an interview with the principal, who is described as being "in touch, in tune, and in charge." (JAC)

Describes an experimental Perceptual Motor Skills Program being used in Florissant, Missouri, for students in grades K-1. (JG)

In this paper, educators in a suburban middle school promote the positive educational outcomes from an alternating-day block schedule at their middle school. Comparisons are cited in student achievement and school climate indicators between the block schedule and the eight-period day with shorter classes. The paper cites several advantages of the…

This document summarizes annual reports provided by Massachusetts' charter schools. It is supplemented with information from reports required of all public schools in the state and provides profiles of the 24 charter schools that were operating in 1997-98. The report opens with an overview of the four common features of charter schools--freedom,…

Describes the process by which a small elementary system (Windsor, Connecticut) combined Individually Guided Instruction and open education. (Author)

Discusses an experience of conducting educational programs which proceed at students' own pace and in their own time. Concludes that people of wide differences in ages and backgrounds can be given opportunities to continue their lifelong independent learning through the new approach. (CC)

The Flexible Campus Program, the author believes, has given Boston's schools system-wide innovation by offering real curriculum alternatives and meaningful, supervised, career and future-oriented'' learning opportunities that draw on community resources. (Editor)