Suggestions for the improvement of the Associated Schools Project focus on involving students in their community under the assumption that students' attitudes toward society and the world as a whole begin with their attitudes toward their immediate environment. (JH)

A small budget and limited resources need not prevent placement offices from initiating new programs. Article describes office where students have access to a diversity of career services such as pre-college counseling for freshmen and, for sophomores, on-the-job contact with alumni. (Author/PC)

Discussed the Learning Community, a minischool dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to academics. (Author/RK)

Asserts that educators can use what is known about communication and the change process to design better ways of interesting teachers in improving their instructional practices and in helping them to do so. Proposes a dissemination/diffusion model. (Author/WM)

The Secondary Exploration of Technology (S. E. T.) project, an industrial arts research and development project providing continuity of learning for students from grades 7 through 12, is described. Three "Systems of Industry" courses for ninth and tenth grade students, modelled on the techniques of industry, are unique to the program.…

In the future, American higher education will become more flexible, open, and egalitarian while it moves toward the European pattern of increased student responsibility. (Author/DW)

Description of a long-range plan for program improvement and curriculum revision through the development of exit-level student objectives for each course and grade level. (JG)

Multiple-image projection, an exciting new audiovisual technology, offers more effective learning environments today, 360-degree training simulations tomorrow. (Author)

Deals with an approach to educational reform, attempting to expand on the objectives of education and present some examples which show why innovations in the field of education fail to produce results when introduced within existing structures. (Author/PG)

This discussion of the role of educational and psychological research in educational policy making and reform emphasizes the German Democratic Republic's concentration on linking theory and practice. (DE)

This article examines and assesses the aims, establishment, and teaching methods of the 41 institutes of technology in Algeria. (DE)

Seventeen Asian member states have joined this program to stimulate educational innovation linked to problems of development. (DE)

Rural education radio not only provides agricultural instruction but also allows peasants to talk as much as instructors, creating the conditions for constant interchange between the lowest and highest strata of the nation. (DE)

Children whose parents are involved in their formal education, among other things, have better grades, test scores, and long-term academic achievement than those with disinterested mothers and fathers. Tutoring is probably the best way for parents to participate in public education, but parental attitudes and expectations toward academic…

Olomana School, operated by the Hawaiian Department of Education, serves youths who have been placed in the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF), the Hawaii State Hospital (HSH), and the Detention Home (DH). During the 1988 summer semester, Olomana School implemented the Extended School Year Program; the school day was expanded to six periods…