The open classroom program instituted in 1973 in the elementary schools of Grand Haven, Michigan, continues to grow although similar experiments elsewhere have failed. Six critical factors in the program's success have been community support, orderly transitions, freedom of choice, proven skill development, student satisfaction, and parent…

Explores two widely held beliefs that conflict with available evidence: (1) handicapped children don't play and (2) play is a good way for handicapped children to pass the time. Concludes by proposing that play can help handicapped children learn. (RH)

Programs such as IGE seldom succeed when only a few are committed to their actualization. (MM)

Deals with the development and use of a scale to assess the degree of implementation of an innovative instructional system and with the analysis of the relationships between scale values and independent variables that may be related to the implementation of an instructional system. (Author/IRT)

To hear all the claims and counterclaims attributed to him, one would doubt the very existence of John Dewey and his educational philosophy, says the author, and his solution is to deny that Dewey ever did live. (RK)

Total school involvement implementing a variety of innovative approaches make for an exciting five week reading program. (RB)

Using contract learning as an example, theauthor explains the diffusion process for academic innovations through higher education institutions: conditions affecting innovations, sources of innovations, diffusion channels, the demand-flow process, the ideal and typical innovation process, and implications for innovators. (Author/PG)

A company of professional actors perform scenes from history, act in plays, and do improvisations and poetry readings in university classrooms. Describes Illinois State University's unique program for enlivening the humanities. (Author/JF)

This article re-examines factors in the breakdown of functional university governance through reexamination of that entire governance system, with a goal of functional simplicity and mutual understanding of group motivations which is required if students are to act rationally, as opposed to violently, as they seek educational change. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to outline a number of very general questions pertinent to people who are dissatisfied enough with currently institutionalized educational provisions to seek to accomplish fundamental educational change. (Author)

Author discusses a plan whereby a group of students would operate in a living-learning environment under a group of screened and dedicated teachers. (Ed./HS)