Article stressed the need for development of interdisciplinary programs, how that curriculum development will chance the university and the relationship between students and teachers. (RK)

As programs are getting underway, it is becoming evident that the new colleges will grow to become the community and the community will see itself in the challenging new perspective of the community college. The community college is the catalyst to restore vision and confidence in small communities. (Author/KP)

A detailed account of Texarkana schools' performance contract with private industry. (MF)

Reviews literature on instructional computing to delineate principles helpful in closing the gap between teaching and technology. Focuses on faculty development (including faculty role shift), program development (including major activities in systematic exploitation of communication technology), and institutional arrangements. (Author/JN)

Describes a methodology for determining the extent of implementation of instructional innovations. The structural equations model used to measure the interaction among teacher, curriculum, and student, is given. (RAO)

The process is recounted by which the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) picked up an NIE-developed innovation (Experience-Based Career Education) for broad demonstration, confirming the viability of a separate research arm, USOE's ability to cooperate with that arm, and the vo-ed community's receptivity to proven educational innovation. (Author/AJ)

The National Institute of Education recently initiated a three-year effort to encourage implementation of the Experience-Based Career Education program and to study the process by which it occurs. Emphasized are: transferring financial support to States and local systems, developing a network of program sites, and diffusing essential technical…

Institutions that recognize individual needs and view individual feelings as natural and normal generally either provide effective strategies or allow for their development. Rather than punishing an individual for feelings, the institution provides an opportunity for dealing with feelings in a manner productive to the individual and to the…

The engine that drives the America 2000 strategy is the Community Challenge--a nationwide movement designed to help America move itself, community by community, toward the six National Education Goals. A community can do four things to become an America 2000 community: (1) adopt the six national education goals; (2) develop a communitywide…

In September of 1981, the Fatherhood Project at Bank Street College in New York City began field research investigating the ways in which America's major social institutions were responding to the call for greater male involvement in childrearing. The research effort attempted to identify innovations in five major institutional sectors: the law,…

Presents the steps necessary for successful innovation, with emphasis on financing, selling the change to faculty, and evaluating the results. (Editor)

The Hawaii Project on Children and Youth At-Risk represents a long-term effort to strengthen the individual school's capacity to meet the special needs of students at-risk. According to the project's definition, a student is at-risk if he/she has consistently failed to make satisfactory school progress, if that failure could be positively…

Prepared as part of a program to develop both a system to assess information needs of teacher education decision makers and impact strategies to increase the probability that teacher educators will make appropriate use of research and development findings and products, this document reports on the literature review that led to the initial…

The Urban Education Network is a problem-solving effort designed to address educational problems facing urban educators. Representatives to the Network are drawn from urban school districts and state departments of education. They work together to strengthen school improvement efforts by sharing concerns, ideas, and educational practices. A number…