A discussion of the turnkey process" as a means of providing vitally needed leverage for a school superintendent to deal with the requisite costs of administrative charges and political problems created by the infusion of a new instructional and management system through performance contracting." (Author/AA)

A new concept in humanities instruction is presented. (CK)

The last of two parts, this article concentrates on industrial training and retraining needs arising from the impending introduction of the metric system into British business and industry. Included are a sample course plan and a list of seminar topics. (LY)

A short statement by the president of the Music Educators National Conference regarding the acceptance of rock and other present-day music as legitimate for use in education. (Author/AP)

Briefly discusses why interest in programed instruction has declined in the United Kingdom. (AA)

Successful farmers have no intention of sharing their information and techniques. Extension workers must devise a means of discovering changes being made and ways for assisting the less progressive farmers. (NL)

The principles of method development and assessment that have resulted from a long-range project at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory to create new methods for program evaluation are summarized. (Author/AL)

Describes visit to Summerhill, an innovative school developed by A.S. Neill. (PKP)

Analysis of organizational learning behaviors in particular occupational clusters suggested that learning can be influenced by cultural factors that vary across occupational areas. Clusters may establish barriers to protect their knowledge base. Understanding of organizational learning must include data across occupational groupings. (Contains 46…

For Flanders, the Bologna declaration has launched an innovation process carrying unprecedented challenges for higher education.

American education is a vast junkyard of curricular innovations that in their own heydays were promoted as panaceas for much that ails the schools and society. It's not that good ideas and usable methods were lacking there. It's that they live in a culture where people expect too much, in too short a time, for too little an investment in…