A detailed account of Texarkana schools' performance contract with private industry. (MF)

Innovation will flourish within a school environment that provides opportunities for teachers to plan, evaluate, and change through a cooperative and democratic process. (Author)

Article based on research supported by a National Institute of Mental Health grant. (VM)

The author describes the operations of the Gill School of Bernardsville, New Jersey, where every student takes each course for five hours a day, five days a week, for a five week period. Any six blocks constitute a full year's work. Results indicate that concentrated learning creates greater subject understanding. (Author/JB)

The author summarizes the effects of widespread innovation and experiment in curriculum and methods of instruction and concludes that the educational process is becoming increasingly individualized. (Author/JB)

Most pressing and unsolved problem in engineering education is reluctance to adopt new teaching techniques, advanced information processes and data systems. (IR)

The hope for individualizing the learning process in all courses in thousands of schools seems inextricably linked to the regional lab concept of broad scale systematic research, development, demonstration, and dissemination. (Author)

Data from a representative sample of four-year colleges and universities in the U. S. were analyzed to reveal the relations between the number of student demonstrations, impersonal treatment of students, institutional size, and responsiveness to reasonable student demands. (JM)

If educational administrators do not initiate reforms in school policy, control of the schools will be lost to the courts. Therefore, unnecessary regulation of students should cease, and students should be involved in an appropriate democratic decision-making process. (JM)

Describes the Three Dimensional Project", a program which has been established in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to utilize the community as a learning laboratory and to expand and redefine the classroom. (Author/DR)

Although educational legislation and Supreme Court decisions can provide the basis for court relief of isolated instances of student abuse, it is primarily the administrator's responsibility to initiate reforms in the spirit of the law. (JM)

Effective educational innovation is possible only when accompanied by basic political and societal change: such change will determine whether deschooling leads to a vulgarization of learning or to universal access to the tools of learning for those needing them. (JM)