Recommendations are made for a new college curriculum based on smaller instructional units, and the results of a media-centered experiment are set forth. (MF)

Describes the "Commando Academy," a Milwaukee (Wisconsin) alternative school program for teenage parolees and other disaffected young people. (JG)

Describes a system whereby the district's students and parents can telephone a number and ask to hear tape recorded messages on topics of interest. (IRT)

Describes the most easily achieved and most difficult to achieve aspects of the model, along with what was possible only for some schools, and what was most disillusioning to the leaders. (IRT)

The PARSEL project was initiated to disseminate teaching modules, based on a philosophical model, which was in line with a need to promote scientific literacy, in a manner considered to be both popular and relevant for students. The project was based on the belief that this approach would allow students to better realize that science was for all,…

In 1995, author Earl Shorris established a small educational program designed to help young adults escape from poverty. The curriculum chosen by Shorris for this experimental program focused solely on a classically based, college-level study in the humanities. While I do not find that Shorris provided proof that a classically inspired course in…

An experiment is described which uses a real-world sample of lawn fertilizer in a simple exercise to illustrate problems associated with the sampling step of a chemical analysis. A mixed-particle fertilizer containing discrete particles of iron oxide (magnetite, Fe[subscript 3]O[subscript 4]) mixed with other particles provides an excellent…

A video mock-up is a "design story", described by Patrick Parrish in a recent "TechTrends" article as "imagining the journey of a learner's experience in engaging with a finished design". A design story allows designers to show their design vision to others and to observe features and benefits of the program as a learner would experience it. The…

A description of the course "The Relevance of Theology" taught at the Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, which was videotaped for use at a nearby college as an elective. (PG)

Discussed day care for children and the quality of such care. (RK)

A program in which each participant learns about education through his or her own involvement in the education process itself was the objective of a four class teacher education experiment in the College of Education, New Mexico State University. (Editor/PG)