As a phenomenon, new education is described in terms of observed classroom behaviors. Several frameworks that might provide explanations of the phenomenon are examined, but each is found to stop short of genuine insight into the unconscious mechanisms at work. An explanation based on psychoanalytic insight is offered. (Author)

In the last 25 years, educational psychology has changed and expanded as a discipline. The major educational reform movements have increased the need for research data and for psychological services in the schools, thus expanding the role of the educational psychologist. (SJL)

Claims made for case studies are analyzed, and some of the obstacles to using this kind of evaluation information are discussed. The analysis is based on evaluation of a federally funded project which combined the evaluation with attempts to use that information to help other schools. (Author/CTM)

Since women are actively seeking admission to professional schools, a woman's counseling program is seen as imperative. The challenges of being a woman's counselor are discussed. The role of the woman's counselor, "community approach" to counseling, characteristics of the woman's counselor, and the variety of counseling programs are outlined. (MLW)

Describes a system, Infracom, which enables students to influence content and structure in introductory college level sociology courses. Infracom involves writing evaluations of class meetings, making comments in class, and helping determine learning aids. (Author/DB)

This review of the New Jersey Education Association since the 1950s concentrates on actions to improve salaries and gain collective bargaining, strikes, relations with the National Education Association, and the Marburger controversy over educational innovations in the 1960s. (SJL)

Educational researchers are urged to consider the benefits of creating a center for the study of unanticipated and short-lived educational phenomena. (MM)

Reports research that sheds light on the relative value of two explanations of receptivity, i.e., how people are oriented internally toward proposed innovations rather than how they behave in relation to those innovations. Data was gathered in a higher educational setting and involved faculty responses to a number of proposed organizational…

Pride can be taken in the performance of secondary education in America's first 200 years, but new social and political conditions demand drastic reform in structure and program format (consistent with the body of public opinion) to better adapt secondary education to present and foreseeable future social conditions. (MB)

Team teaching, flexible-modular scheduling, a variety of field experiences, and professional semesters are strategies implemented in the Colorado State University teacher preparation program within the last year. (MB)

Special centers established to improve the performance of disadvantaged students in reading and mathematics, emphasizing individual attention and close relation between student and teacher, and setting achievable goals, are proving effective. (JD)

Higher education need not be obtained in residency at a college or university. Some alternatives that may be widely employed in the future are examined. (Author/MLF)

Reflects on a study involving 92 general educators and 114 special educators that examined perceptions of actual and preferred preassessment-related team activities and team members. Discusses commonalities between preassessment and educational reform, provides an overview of the importance of preassessment, and outlines a model for preassessment.…

Describes reform efforts in science education at Northern Arizona University that emphasize active, inquiry-based learning in introductory biology classes. Recommends the use of a number of strategies to involve large classes in thinking about and doing science. Contains 20 references. (DDR)

Suggests that any model of washback must include insights from the theory of educational innovation to help explain why tests do not always have the desired or feared effect. Key concepts in educational innovation are reviewed, showing how these concepts are manifested in a case study in washback and outlining how they are being applied in recent…