Project RE-THINK proposes to "re-invent" education, following a systematic, comprehensive approach to produce a logical, effective educational environment. Outlines the plan of operation that will begin with approximately 30 seventh grade students. (MLF)

A teacher remembers the Ohio State University Laboratory High School in the 1930s. Teachers were university faculty with at least a master's degree. Programs were experimental and interesting. Students and teachers were close. Students, realizing their unique schooling, published a book concerning their experiences, calling themselves the Guinea…

Use of video recorders may enhance young children's comprehension, recall, memory, and problem-solving skills. Research should be conducted on ways in which the combination of the video recorder and computer technology may facilitate children's learning processes. (RH)

Presents an educational project that is meant to both stimulate innovations and explain those innovations already observed in different schools. Defines the relationship between the concept of practical learning and similar reform ideas. Focuses on questions concerning the development of educational policy in West Germany and on theoretical…

The aim of this study was to determine the relative potency of different student characteristics potentially salient to differentiating epistemological view. The student variables were demographic (major and sex), verbal ability, and learning style (four scales from the Inventory of Learning Processes). (Author/MLW)

Discusses, in part four of a series on HyperCard, the general issue of innovation as it relates to HyperCard, and presents some of the "savvy" regarding HyperCard that has developed in the course of its use in the classroom and in teacher training. (SR)

The Young Adult Education Program in Arlington Heights (Illinois) offers high school credit classes in the evening to serve at-risk students who have left the regular day school. Students earn a diploma from the high school in their attendance area. On a bare-bones budget, the program graduates approximately 65 percent of its enrolled students.…

In an information-processing organization, it is essential that lines of communications stay open, and that can best be accomplished through cooperative teamwork. Strategies for developing teams in collegiate bureaucracies are discussed. (Author/MLW)

In a team-taught course that uses political novels and films, the concept of politics becomes more understandable to the students. Three different instructors representing political science, English, and film bring expertise to the course that is not usually possible for a single instructor. (Author/MLW)

Teachers, as members of a craft culture, utilize information differently than do members of technical cultures. Information dissemination efforts for educators must focus on developing a craft dissemination system; a clash of cultures results in little change or research utilization. Cultural change, not use of new information, is the issue. (JD)

Descriptions of innovative information related programs at Drexel, Rutgers, and Syracuse universities cover such topics as the interdisciplinary approach to information science, philosophical and program changes, and the introduction of additional degree programs. The effects of the revised programs on intrauniversity recognition and acceptance…

Describes an oral history project in which ninth graders interviewed residents of an Atlanta neighborhood facing disruption by urban development and prepared transcriptions and scrapbooks for presentation to the local historical society. (SV)

Outlines a high school campaign to increase community awareness of the problems of homeless people. Describes student efforts to research the facts and circulate their findings through flyers, posters, letters, speeches, and radio spots. Offers cautionary suggestions for teachers supervising similar projects. (SV)

The Minnesota Business Partnership (MBP) was studied as a policy innovator in state school reform (for kindergarten through grade 12) in relation to agenda setting, alternative formulation, and authoritative enactment. Focus is on the MBP's policy-making involvement during the 1985 state legislative session. Overall, the MBP's influence was…

Discusses the qualities of excellence discerned during formal visits/evaluations of the 63 Catholic elementary schools and 19 Catholic high schools in Omaha, Nebraska. Considers school climate, student attitudes, faculty development, lay/pastoral involvement, financial planning, and new initiatives. (DMM)