The advantages and disadvantages of packaged instructional plans are presented. (CK)

Since innovation involves some risk, teachers are justifiably concerned with risks that accompany change. Planning, research, and development minimize risk-taking but a strategy for innovation is in a sense, an exercise in planning the unplannable. (Author)

A step-by-step account is given of a 31-week course in German language for beginners, conducted by a teacher with no knowledge of German and oriented toward teaching and learning by the audiovisual method. (NL)

Briefly describes the development of cable television and how it is transmitted. Public benefit uses, refranchising, and getting a local franchise started are discussed, as well as resources to help set up such a system. References are included. (BK)

The relationship between the cost of an innovation and the extent of its adoption is a complex one. Worthwhile innovations need not be prohibitively expensive. (BD)

Describes the new Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering's innovative approach to engineering education, including integrating art and entrepreneurship into the curriculum. (EV)

Examines Robert Frost's teaching career, which lasted from 1893 to 1912. Discusses his extreme dislike of teaching, resulting in nervous exhaustion on several occasions, and his teaching innovations, which involved students writing about their own experiences and ideas, and reading aloud for expression and the sound of language. (SV)

Discusses how the University of Twente encourages individual and institutional entrepreneurial activity and dissemination of expert knowledge. Describes the establishment of the Student Entrepreneurship Centre. (SK)

Argues that the American high school has outlived its usefulness, largely due to the system's failure to respond to changes in adolescent development. Recommends terminating high school at age 16 and allowing students to pursue a variety of options after graduation. (EV)

Reviewed research conducted over several years to show that teachers at different stages of the educational innovation process express different types of concerns. Research findings show the importance of attuning innovation policy to factors influencing the innovation process. (SLD)

It is time to change the strategies. It is time to change the system of education. If need be, we'll do it one school at a time. But, as the authors' story and those of other innovative school change movements have shown, ever more scaled-up change is possible and is happening right now. This article describes what the authors' named "The Big…