Now that innovation in education is again fashionable, many people are smugly assuming that the three-year baccalaureate is one of those bold innovations, forgetting perhaps that there is "nothing new under the sun." The author traces the history of the three-year baccalaureate, including some of its contemporary trials. (Author)

Author provided an assessment of his experience with organizational development at the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut. (Author/RK)

An argument for institutional concentration on the student rather than on the search for institutional diversity. This concentration will require effective innovations in instructional methods. (PG)

An overview of the most important materials on nontraditional study from the past six years. (Editor)

Reports on an experiment in which ninth-graders took over the teaching of a Spanish class for several days. (CK)

Internet technologies blur the distinction between distance learning and traditional learning by enabling the convergence of these two, thus causing confusion in widely-accepted definitions, terminologies, concepts, and theories on distance learning. This paper introduces an e-education framework with three reference models in order to reduce the…

It is dangerous for counselors to become proponents of innovation unless they have examined the conditions requiring change, the nature of the change, and the anticipated consequences of the change against the framework of their philosophy of education and the multiple needs of their students. (Author)

The reason for interest in educational innovation, the significance of the choice of innovations made by international organizations, and the barriers to the communication of experiences derived from innovation are examined. Emphasis is placed upon the social sciences taking more interest in the study of innovation. (DE)

The author reflects on the "points of entry" at which social systems are ready to accept educational changes. (DE)

The author briefly examines the types of simulation games and how they can be used in social science, science, mathematics, and vocational education. (DE)

The problem with various versions of Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) that have emerged since the turn of the century is that they are not self sustaining--they seemed unable to overcome the destructive forces of departmentalization and the entrenched attitudes in the university both toward writing and toward interdepartmental programs. If WAC…

A national seminar was held in September, 1988, in Lisbon, Portugal for the purpose of disseminating results of the Council of Europe's Council for Cultural Cooperation's project on innovation in primary education. Details of the implementation of the project and problems of primary education in Portugal were discussed at the seminar, which was…

Three phases of any change effort include initiation, implementation, and continuation. This seventh guidebook in a series of nine video conferences addresses later stages of implementation and continuation (initiation and early stages of implementation are discussed in the sixth guidebook.) In the guidebook are definitions of the three phases of…