In November 2006, the editors of "Campus Technology" launched their first-ever High-Resolution Projection Study, to find out if the latest in projector technology could really make a significant difference in teaching, learning, and educational innovation on US campuses. The author and her colleagues asked campus educators,…

If the world is flat, what, then, are the implications for and obligations of educational leaders? Leaders in Bangalore, India offer habits of mind, of heart, and of action that can serve as the bases for a model of educational leadership for the twenty-first century.

A series of single day visits to selected elementary and secondary schools in Illinois, Nevada, California, Florida, and Massachusetts was made by a visitation team of teachers, administrators and architects from the Monroe (Michigan) School District. This document reports the visitation team's impressions of developing educational systems,…

Participants in an airborne seminar were teams of individuals from sixteen institutions engaged in the early stages of planning and design. Novel and exciting features of each of the nineteen institutions visited during the "fly-in" were noted. A brief summary of the unique architectural features and facilities in each institution is given, some…

The study attempted to determine: (1) whether achievement in the early school years is related to anxiety and curiosity in later school years; and (2) whether anxiety and curiosity in early school years are related to achievement in later school years. The Stafford Achievement Test (SAT), the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (CMAS), and the…

A striking feature of education during the last decade has been the high rate of finance and enrollment expansion that has gone hand in hand with economic growth and social development. Social demand for education has consistently run ahead of the resource provision in many countries, with the resulting paradox that education has been both the…

To improve education, creative alternatives to existing practices must be developed. Instructional technology offers promise, but its potential can be made use of fully only within a systems approach, applied both to improving structures of education and instructional processes. The systems approach can plan a system of instruction which has all…

A second survey of a volunteered panel of readers of Social Education on trends and practices in social studies reports on the perceived climate for innovation. (JH)

This 3-year report on an Educational and Cultural Development Program (ECD) is in four sections: (1) rationale, (2) description of the five subject areas, (3) data evaluation, and (4) recommendations. Three student groups were compared: 156 liberal arts and 393 ECD students for fall 1965 and 561 ECD's for fall 1966. Each subject area showed the…

Growth of colleges, varying faculty experience, and program and student body diversity have accentuated the need for sound faculty orientation and in-service programs, especially where innovation, development, and use of new instructional media are stressed. After interviewing 11 faculty members at three colleges, the author has prepared 23…

This bibliography was compiled during a selective review of the literature on team teaching by two staff members of the Upper Midwest Regional Educational Laboratory. It contains approximately 120 ERIC documents; 20 SRIS documents (School Research Information Service); 130 books and pamphlets; 7 films; 700 periodicals; and 120 reports, papers,…

The recommendations contained in this report, and the suggestions for implementing them, should make it possible to set up an engineering school which is better adapted to the needs of modern Spain. The primary objective is to produce top-level staff who can make an effective contribution to industrial development; and to train students at the…

This monograph discusses some of the reforms and changes that have taken place in professional schools. Chapter I discusses: (1) the nature and characteristics of professions; (2) the evolution of professional education; (3) the purposes of professional education and some of its persistent problems; and (4) the forces that are pushing for radical…

Continuous attention must be paid to law as a part of society and to the development of new curriculum materials and instructional practices if law-related education is to avoid becoming only a curiosity of 1970's curriculum history. (MJB)