A project to accelerate the pace of change in vocational education and training involved all stakeholders in planning, implementation, and assessment; replaced syllabi with integrated learning systems; used reflection at each step; and integrated vocational qualifications into the process, rather than making them the primary goal for students. (SK)

Describes the accounts of four Grade 1 teachers as they take action to improve their science teaching skills. Provides information on teacher background, early teaching strategies, confronting ideas about teaching science, and the steps taken to reform practice. (DDR)

Reports on an ethnographic study of inservice biology teachers (N=8) in which two questions were explored. The questions pertain to the frequency and forms of analogies used by biology teachers to explain scientific concepts to their students. Contains 23 references. (DDR)

Private colleges across the country are collaborating to cut costs, streamline services, and increase efficiency. An ambitious Ohio project, involving 35 colleges, to redesign business operations hopes to save $20-25 million. Other efforts include joint classes using interactive television, shared library resources, cross-registration, jointly…

Electronic focus groups with professors that explored their attitudes toward instructional technology provided data for a theoretical framework. Findings indicated that they have concerns about the ability of such technology to enhance student learning, and many view it simply as a tool for information dissemination and not as a networking medium.…

Describes a teacher's experience after losing her sight. Explains how she incorporated audiocassettes into her classes--students recorded their assignments and listened to them with her during 20-minute interview sessions. States that in using the cassette, students improved their skills as readers, became more aware of the rhythms of the English…

Highlights 26 American community colleges that have implemented ground-breaking programs. Describes a survey conducted to glean information from 670 colleges. Discusses projects such as the Chesapeake Area Consortium for Higher Education--a partnership between Chesapeake College (Maryland) and two other institutions--which offers Physical Therapy…

Evaluated the usefulness of interactive television and computer-supported learning for in-service teacher education at rural community centers in South Africa. Findings supported the usefulness of this model of technological use for teacher education. (EV)

Outlines two responses regarding why educational innovations come and go with such regularity. It is argued that there is a paucity of knowledge about these innovations which is leading to superficial solutions or implementation and that the inability to tap into the roots of these educational innovations results in the reinvention or recycling of…

A review of the literature indicates that school leaders who realize that conflict is not necessarily negative or positive can learn to manage conflict by understanding the steps of the conflict process from the antecedents to the outcomes. Successful conflict management can result in innovation and adaptation in the school. (SLD)

Examines efforts to improve the educational environment for an ethnically and economically diverse student body which help to increase student learning. Using a middle school in San Francisco (California) as an example, the classroom, the structure of the educational program, and student support services are described as conditions for increasing…

Addresses how Apple Valley High School (Minnesota) has been able to help marginal students succeed in school. The fundamental actions that contributed to the effectiveness of study-team efforts to help marginal students are discussed, and what has been learned through these efforts is considered. (GR)

Describes Western Iowa Tech Community College's (WITCC) strategies to weave technology into its instruction and student-support functions. Describes a five-year initiative, launched to strengthen instructional and student-service programs through technological means. Through collaboration with PLATO Learning and Datatel, WITCC has demonstrated…

This article profiles Leta Stetter Hollingworth, the founder of gifted education. It discusses her childhood, the New York Public School 165 experiment, the Speyer School experiment, and her overriding belief that since all human beings were not created intellectually equal, all children should not be equated in the same way. (Contains…

Describes how several small schools have collaborated with the community and shared facilities, such as a former church, a former carriage factory, a medical complex, and a community college. Some of these small schools use social-service agency staff, others create schools-within-schools, and still others become charter schools. (PKP)