Mentoring is the focal point of this innovative program, established in 1987, for the preparation of school principals. The program emphasizes learning through field experience and close collaboration between participating universities and local school administrative systems. Experienced administrators are chosen to serve as mentors for candidates…

This collection of 43 activities represents an initial sampling of the creative efforts that Vermont teachers are currently making to improve the learning environment of their students. The resources are the outcome of a campaign initiated by the regional service teams of the Vermont Department of Education to collect information about promising…

An instructional program was developed and implemented to help four first-grade students use an Atari 800 microcomputer. To determine the extent to which the four students and 40 teachers were familiar with computers and to judge their attitudes toward using them in classrooms, a survey was administered. While teachers' responses varied, all…

With reference to university education, the importance of the education of specialists in fields outside of their specialism is explored. (ND)

The private college can hold its place, the author maintains, but only after a thoroughgoing revolution: tenure must be done away with, the word "curriculum" done away with, financial reforms undertaken, and innovative approaches found, e.g. getting out of all varsity sports and concentrating on a new concept of physical education/recreation. (JT)

After a three-year study, the National Board on Graduate Education reports that graduate education must change from a simple model of advanced education to one with diversity and differentiation. Foresees a focus on accountability and a reduction in both demand for Ph.D.'s and research and development expenditures. (MLH)

Provides a description of Project Tactics for Applying Programs in Education (TAPE), a National Science Foundation funded program currently in use in South Dakota. Components of the program which include the use of television, telephone, and newspaper media are explained. (CP)

An interview with Dwight Allen regarding his work under a UNESCO Technical Assistance Grant on the development of a National Teacher Training College in Lesotho, Africa. In discussing innovation, such as an item-bank system of student testing, he emphasizes the duty of innovators to be responsible, if not always right. (JT)

A secondary course designed to study human attitudes and values through the use of multimedia, multidiscipline social studies is described. For journal availability see annotation SO 504 171. (Author/DE)

The Tagari Project attempts to utilize resources already available in the community in lieu of classroom instruction and places emphasis on using funds normally spent on costly equipment and facilities to give the program flexibility and mobility. (BR)

Article discussed the makeup of a residential school and its students as well as the student school interaction. (RK)

The article explores some of the possible reasons for what the author describes as an apparent failure of the use of innovative elementary school science programs developed over the past dozen years and suggests some possible solutions. Six suggestions are given to reduce or overcome barriers to change. (EB)

By designing attractive learning packages and attracting students to the media center, a school media staff convinced teachers that the center was a source of desirable curriculum innovations. (PF)

A major task of this study was to develop a conceptual framework for dealing with variations in openness of school programs (Author)