Comments on eight changes initiated in the late sixties that would alter English programs during the seventies. (RB)

Here is a pen-portrait of a new-style tertiary college, North Devon College, Barnstaple. (Editor/RK)

"Orff-Schulwerk", an innovative approach to music education, is finding increasing popularity due to its emphasis on creativity and free expression. (CS)

Chairman presents highlights of several of the Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education's positions, including teacher training, rank-in-class, the Carnegie Unit, and alternatives. (GB)

Article is a report on NASSP's Model Schools Project that includes statements by a teacher, a student, and the principal of one of the MSP schools. (Editor)

Colleges should continue to be the manufacturers of conceptual tools and the sources of knowledge renewal, creative criticism, and reflective learning. Overzealous innovative attempts that ignore these functions are bound to become vacuous. (Author/PG)

Universities are characterized as being preoccupied with maintaining standard educational programs and formulating educational policies in terms of mundane criteria rather than acting as leaders in educational innovation (PEB)

Relationships between educators' innovation-adoption behavior and five attributes of innovation (relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, observability) were examined. The attributes, developed by Rogers and Shoemaker, emerged from research in disciplines such as sociology and anthropology, and the present investigation was…

Experienced Based Career Education has produced positive evidence of effectiveness. Two points can be made about effectiveness and educational innovation. First, evidence of effectiveness is but one of several criteria used by educational decision makers for determining educational change. Second, only a small percentage of educators are…

This document presents the proceedings of the hearing before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor to amend the Emergency School Aid Act. The proposed act is titled the School Integration Innovation Act of 1976. It provides for innovative desegregation programs and procedures.…

The concept of planning social change through education has grown popular since 1945 though with varying aims. This article examined five models, namely, of society, of man, of change, of directions of change, and finally, of the methods for bringing about change. (Editor/RK)

When does the first period of the day meet as the last period of the day? When a school adopts the so-called rotating schedule. Author weighs the idea carefully. (Editor/RK)

The principal of Pasco Comprehensive Senior High School in Dade City, Florida, discussed the staffing considerations for the extended school year plan. (Editor/RK)

Article considered an experiment with a three-quarter (trimester) schedule carried out by Wooddale High School in Memphis, Tennessee. (Author/RK)

Two of the innovators of the concept of career development through curriculum describe the current status of the DCGP in Detroit, Michigan, giving special emphasis to evaluation outcomes. (Author)