The mini school program is designed to provide a smooth transition from the elementary school to the independent discipline approach of high school. Under the program, a student spends two-thirds of each school day in a mini school where he is taught language arts, math, health science, and social studies. Each mini school has a teacher for each…

This report gives a summary of the work and methods conducted by a study group at the University Without Walls (UWW) of Boston, June 1972-May 1973. Section II discusses some of the outstanding qualities that characterize UWW students. The backgrounds that influence their education experiences as higher education students and set them apart from…

This newsletter is an information exchange effort on the part of the Futures Information Center being established at the University of Massachusetts. Typical issues will contain information on innovative lesson plans, ideas, materials, project descriptions, or other facets which are being implemented at various levels and schools on the topic of…

This book provides ideas about developing new learning programs that are based on the actual day-to-day experience of 15 schools. The information was collected during visits to 15 new school programs in Illinois and adjacent States, and by talking with the people who had direct roles in devising these programs. Many of the schools in this study…

This document reports the scope of the activities undertaken and the accomplishments being realized as a result of the Educational Innovation Program (EIP) and the Instructional Innovation Program (IIP) at Illinois State University. Abstracts for each program in EIP and IIP include a program description and evaluation/status. Indices for projects…

Schools can be changed from the inside if one works with the dynamics that schools respond to. Four generalizations about the change in the schools are that: 1) Innovations must be comprehensible to the leadership of schools, i.e., innovations must be introduced to the administrators of schools as well as teachers -- administrators need to…

This document describes the Science Cluster College (SCC), a part of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green State University. The SCC offered a science seminar, survey courses, and laboratory work. The seminar emphasized creative aspects of scientific activity, the nature of scientific knowledge, inductive and deductive logic,…

It is estimated that 2,715 individuals in the area served by California State University, Sacramento are interested, educationally qualified, and willing to pay the fees for enrollment in External Degree programs. Those interested in external degree programs have a mean age of 33, are predominantly male, married, and employed full-time in…

This progress report describes the activities and summarizes the evaluation of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green State University for the 1972-73 academic year. Emphasis is placed on the general education component, the structure of MAP in its position within the University, a profile of the MAP student, student development,…

This short booklet contains questions and answers concerning aspects of vocational-technial education, inlcuding the (1) skills and expertise requirements for program administrators, (2) identification of opinion leaders, (3) adoption of an innovation, (4) role of residential schools, and (5) membership and responsibilities of state advisory…

This paper discusses the manner in which our traditional approaches to education have become inadequate to the challenges and needs of today and tomorrow. Public policy must support new approaches to education that depart from the traditional Core -- the sequential ladder of organized educational activities K-16 -- and provide alternatives for…

This educational research and development program was designed to improve education and to provide instruments for making significant educational decisions related to the efficiency and effectiveness of programs. The first year was used to plan and identify tasks and goals. Individualized instruction was considered a vital component. It was agreed…

Glassboro State College, through its supplementary training program, has attempted to demonstrate its commitment to academic relevance, social concern, and individual advancement. The program was originally designed to supplement regular college programing by including an atypical group of students--the poor, employed, experience-oriented adult.…

This document explains the need for a Specialist in Continuing Education (SCE), outlines the expected role and responsibilities of an SCE, and describes a program being developed to train SCE's. The SCE is envisioned as a teacher educator who will work with inservice teachers in small groups in a variety of ways to continually improve their…

This report describes an investigation of theory and research relevant to the development of program I: Specialist in Continuing Education (SCE), a program to train teacher educators who will work with inservice teachers in small groups to improve their professional skills. The major portion of the report consists of position papers written by six…