The author outlines the progress to date in achieving the transition to universal secondary education. He identifies the major problem as poor preparation of teachers, especially in rural areas, to work with the new programs. (Author/DE)

Briefly describes the curriculum at Hampshire College, an experimental school that has attempted to restructure liberal education. (Author/PG)

Author stressed five areas of need in which the contribution was vital for the development of clinical psychology. (Author/RK)

An overview over the development of the reform in curriculum taking place in Iceland, including planning procedures and the characteristic strategy of teacher participation in the construction process, is presented. (Editor/RK)

At Hofstra University, peer teachers are students who are paid participants in class discussions, as well as being responsible for advising and tutoring outside the classroom. The success of the peer teaching program at Hofstra is described. (Author/PG)

An Iowa elementary school has a program of periodic short activity sessions for primary students. Ten different activities are offered during each session, and students are asked to select two. Each session is led by a resource person from outside the school. nJG)

The author briefly describes the development of education in Costa Rica from 1950 to 1974. Emphasis is placed upon reform-minded national education plans started in 1972. (DE)

Because future workers will experience rapid changes in both work technologies and jobs, and because America's wellbeing is dependent upon a successfully educated and highly skilled work force, students must develop the capacity to learn new skills and tasks quickly. The traditional school structure of passive student participation is not…

This report summarizes the work of a national seminar on the development of primary education. The aim of the meeting was to evaluate the final report of the Innovation in Primary Education Project, a project of the Council of Europe's Council for Cultural Cooperation. The evaluation placed particular emphasis on the process of deciding what areas…

A study was made of the implementation and institutionalization of the "Quill" system, a set of microcomputer-based writing activities for upper elementary school students. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into the roles played by incentives and rewards as teachers attempt to improve their practice with a new innovation. Ten…

The Studies of Implementation project is a 3-year longitudinal investigation of planned educational change. The research focuses on the process by which an innovation becomes a pattern of individualized schooling. This study identifies those conditions that promote or retard change and relates them to the modifications they foster. It reports on…

This paper examines the recent research on the change process, with emphasis on implementation of educational innovations, to see what messages might be implied for teachers and their teaching skills. How various aspects of the change process research lead to the identification and description of these kinds of skills for teachers are described.…