High schools in America have been relatively impervious to change during the last few decades despite many reform efforts and reports, which, while proliferating goals and tasks placed on the schools, failed to mobilize a new consensus about education. In 1959 the post-Sputnik Conant Report decried the lag in science education. Federally funded…

This paper describes the Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) program, a closed-circuit educational television system in which classes originating on the California State University, Chico (CSUC) campus are simultaneously broadcast live to various ITFS sites within Northeastern California. Following an introduction, the first section…

A study examined the nontraditional adult vocational education practices and programs in Oklahoma that were designed to overcome one or more of the barriers to adult enrollment and increase the number of adult participants in vocational education. Following a mail survey to all adult vocational education institutions in Oklahoma, researchers…

Recommendations that the curriculum needs to be restructured to better meet the mathematical needs of a diverse student population in a society increasingly dominated by technology are addressed in this yearbook. It attempts to chart new curricular directions for high school mathematics in terms of content, organization, and priorities, and also…

This paper describes one component of the Study of Dissemination Efforts Supporting School Improvement, which focused on the role that external facilitators play in helping schools implement new educational practices. The first part describes the external facilitator sample (95 respondents) and delineates the major formal role groups of external…

General principles of planning tailor-made change strategies arise directly from the CLER (configurations, linkages, environments, resources) model, a model of planned change, as well as from the value assumptions in which the model is embedded. These principles include the following: change requires commitment, planning and management of change…

Futurum in Sweden is described here as a school that does not have any classrooms, there is nothing like a timetable, no school bells can be heard, the students do not have any school bags, and teachers are without desks. Futurum is a radically new school that merges creative architecture with modern learning and teaching methods. This article…

A description and assessment, by the first principal of a newly formed community school in New York City, of the struggle to implement structural, administrative, and programmatic innovations with a special focus on the parent school relationship. (EH)

The middle school program described is designed to provide boys and girls, together, career-oriented experiences, utilizing concepts relating to the "World of Work" in what have traditionally been called home economics, industrial arts, and business education. The open classroom program is student centered; an experimental approach is encouraged.…

Societal changes have affected home economics; indignation (which creates a professional environment amenable to change) has been expressed that home economics programs are not focused on life as it really is; are not family-oriented; do not respect and encourage diversity; and are not directed toward concept learning. (AJ)

Focuses on the change in political and social orientations experienced by teachers who voluntarily stress a participatory approach to social studies education, encouraging active student involvement in the community. (Author/SF)

Article described and then commented on a project and its effects on children and teachers after it was implemented. The project was a social studies course aimed at students aged 9 to 13. (Author/RK)

Innovative programs in American schools for young children are discussed under four main categories: programmed approaches, the Free Schools movement, activity-centered approaches, and increased parent involvement. (CS)

Constant clamoring for change has led curriculum into an era of structured obsolescence. Increasingly more curriculum products are discarded rather than revised or updated. (Author/WM)

Beyond grade 6 school attendance should not be compulsory and a wide variety of learning opportunities should be provided everyone. (JH)