Provides a framework for student services professionals that can be used as a philosophical rationale for making decisions and implementing practical budget strategies. Outlines models for student-centered universities and colleges and for restructuring student services. Examines holistic student assessment and how to redesign learning-oriented…

Provides an overview of current and of future budgetary conditions in higher education and their relation to trends, emerging issues, budget influence on restructuring, and relationships to larger institutional issues. Suggests ways the budgeting process can lead to creative and responsive restructuring. Emphasizes reallocation, retrenchment, and…

Asserts that the definition of diversity has changed from one of simply adding issues and subjects to a curriculum to one of transforming the relations between parts, and in the process reconceiving the whole. Presents several curricular models and goals for student learning that incorporate this approach. (MJP)

Critically examines Total Quality Management (TQM). Analyzes the concepts and practices of TQM and its failure to live up to expectations in higher education. Emphasizes the problems inherent with TQM initiatives in an educational environment and outlines ways that student affairs officials can proactively apply TQM to support universities'…

Increasing specialist staff over the years means that regular classroom teachers comprise a declining portion of professional staff. Fewer education dollars are spent teaching the regular instructional program. The Boston schools, five Darlington-Hammond study schools, the New American Schools, and the Edison Project have achieved higher student…

Argues that culturally effective practice remains elusive within child welfare agencies. Presents specific strategies that enhance cultural effectiveness at the individual, interprofessional, middle management, and upper management levels. Highlights a five-stage model of change and explores barriers to culturally competent practice, focusing on…

Argues that the federal government is the only funding source of the magnitude needed to create an adequate early care and education system. Urges the early childhood community to unite behind a long-term strategy for creating and financing an effective national early care/education system. Presents three such proposals that differ in priorities…

Contends that systemic reform is required to improve student achievement. Describes 10 system-building standards from the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE): the educational environment, governance and policy issues, preservice and inservice education, teaching practices, assessment practices, personnel and curricular materials…

A study examined rural activities and curriculum content in Adelaide University Medical School (South Australia). A survey of all department heads found significant increases from 1994 to 2000 in students with rural backgrounds, weeks available for rural placements, and departments offering rural placements. Academic support to rural practitioners…

Promising educational practices focus on achievement for all students and present evidence to demonstrate their effectiveness. Schools that have broken the mold are vision-focused and values-based. The most hopeful strategy for sustained, substantive educational improvement involves developing school staff into professional learning communities in…

This article discusses shifting from special education to inclusive, outcomes-based education (OBE) in South Africa. It examines why there is a shift toward OBE, different educational paradigms, and shifting from fundamental pedagogy to OBE. Necessary changes are highlighted, and include a shift from classification to using OBE for progression and…

The article explores the process of change in special education and reviews major research projects of a five-year (1985-90) federal research program of the Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs. Forty-one projects addressed eight priority areas, including enhancing instructional program options and educating students with…

Educators should encourage the "small is beautiful" approach to school improvement because it mobilizes a powerful "inside out" process instrumental to organizational effectiveness. As a study of two rural Vermont high schools shows, creative ways are needed to channel and maximize innovation without dampening the dynamics of…

Summarizes major differences between, and compatibility of, site-based management (SBM) and choice as strategies for restructuring schools. Examines the following areas of comparison: focus; impact timing; nature of impacts; teacher empowerment; empowerment basis; roles assigned parents; professionalization strategy; accountability; change…

A staff development program for a New Jersey school district involved a day-long visit to a new corporate office complex to acquaint teachers with a modern electronic office and the need to prepare students for the modern workplace. (MLF)