Good history teaching should not be the responsibility of a single department working in isolation. The history subject community as a whole should work together to ensure that history teaching is of as high a quality as possible. This does not mean that every department, and every teacher, should do exactly the same things. It means, rather, that…

A home education center, micro-publishing, the wired community, and "anywhere" computer terminals are just a few of the futuristic technological developments happening now. (Author)

Perhaps what is needed for the entire educational system is to find and utilize a special group of people to operate nontraditionally at all levels within that system. Perhaps that group of people should have a special name -- what about teachers? (Author)

An exploratory study which deals with staff attitudes to programmed instruction, and tests hypotheses developed from a consideration of: 1. Those features of programmed instruction which are relevant to the problems faced at present in higher education. 2. The characteristics of staff in higher education. 3. Those factors reported in the…

A look at how the Danville, Illinois, Public School District uses a local CATV system to distribute instructional television programs. (HB)

The purpose was to identify characteristics of the faculty and departments which had voluntarily initiated instructional innovations through the Educational Development Program (EDP). A profile of the participating faculty was developed and characteristics of 90 EDP project directors were compared with those of a random sample of 250 other faculty…

This document presents results of a prediction investigation into factors that might account for variations in the success of attempts at educational innovation. Four stages of innovation (adoption, planning, implementation, and institutionalization) are isolated and described, and the attention paid by this investigation to the innovation studies…

The students engaged in procedures with each other that were similar to those used with real clients. (Editor/KE)

The implementation of an ETV program in Samoa and the concomitant expansion of the Samoan educational system is discussed. (Author)

This article presents a strategy teachers may use in the development of a Mississippi studies model which may be used to study any area -- local, state, or national. (Author)

The suggestive-accelerative approach to foreign language instruction is described. This method, first used in Bulgaria by Georgi Lozanov, emphasizes bringing the imagination to bear on the learning task, in a relaxed classroom environment. After establishing a calm atmosphere through direct and indirect suggestion, the teacher proceeds to…

SINCE SOME FORMS OF EXPERIMENTATION ARE NOT ADAPTABLE TO THE TYPICAL COLLEGE OPERATION, A MULTICOLLEGE SYSTEM, IN ADDITION TO ENCOURAGING INNOVATION AND INSTRUCTIONAL RESEARCH, SHOULD CONTAIN ONE EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE. WHILE LOCATED ON ONE OF THE DISTRICT'S CAMPUSES, IT WOULD HAVE ITS OWN FACILITY AND ADMINISTRATIVE INDEPENDENCE. A DISTRICT…