Italian teachers of English can be categorized in three groups, according to their attitudes in regard to innovative teaching techniques: (1) those who reject anything new, (2) those who accept only the new, and (3) those who accept the new while preserving what is good in the old techniques. (CFM)

A report on innovations in the teaching of engineering at West Virginia University and the effects these have had on student performance is presented. (BB)

A procedure is presented that provides data for deciding whether or not an innovation can be implemented well and where effort should be expended to help ensure trouble-free implementation. (MM)

Past transformations in science education and circumstances steps of transformation in science teaching. Contemporary issues influencing science education are reviewed in contex with the model producing change are reviewed to develop a model of sequential to demonstrate that contemporary social issues are initating a new transitions in science…

Describes the achievements of the trial spare-time university correspondence courses for youth who have resettled in the countryside in Shanghai province. Topics discussed include purposes of the correspondence universities, curriculum, political influence, creation and administration of the programs. (Author/DB)

Discusses the influence of the ideas of Ivan Illich on the English school system. (Editor/RK)

Examines the influence of one teacher personality variable, dogmatism, and one organizational variable, tenure status, on the resistance of teachers toward innovation. (Author/RK)

Designing projects around Gardner's multiple intelligences, a Connecticut school created a one-week summer camp where children can tap into their unique strengths. The Summer Stars program allows children ages 7-12 to choose materials and activities from many topics and to participate in one of three internships involving a discovery museum, a…

A family-friendly school incorporates many aspects of school reform going on throughout the country. Parents would be allowed choice in selecting the school, the teacher, calendar, and schedule. Normal operation hours for a school could become 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Lists 12 sources for additional information. (MLF)

A large Baltimore high school has shown how personalizing relationships and focusing the curriculum can turn around an unsafe school and create a climate conducive to learning. The school adopted the Talent Development model, which created six smaller units or academies. Instead of suspending or transferring ill-behaved students, Patterson…

Stepping Stones is an award-winning British program to promote access to nonvocational courses for people with mental health problems. An adult education service and local colleges work together to support learners' emotional needs and overcome such barriers as financial problems, medication effects, and lack of staff training in working with this…

Discusses the role of microworlds in micro and macro educational systems. Topics include epistemological concepts; educational innovations; mathematics education in elementary schools; microworlds as simplified reality and as mental structure; and a three-stage theory of the development of learning. (LRW)

Describes a mentoring program for preservice teachers that focused on the use of the Internet for teaching and learning. Discusses use of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model, which describes three developmental phases of concerns regarding innovation and change; and the Stages of Concern Questionnaire and its validity for preservice teachers.…

Discusses the ways the credit hour has come to be used by public funding systems in higher education. The literature review shows that the credit hour has become a barrier to innovation and a way to create systemic inequities between institutions or sectors in resource allocation. (SLD)

Explains the Training, Infrastructure and Empowerment System (TIES), a theory-based system of educational reform through instructional technology, and discusses results of a study at a Canadian university that investigated the vision for instructional technology, learning technologies and alternative delivery systems, and adoption of innovation.…