Examines competency testing reforms in a state education agency and a local school district. Addresses linkages among reform impetus, implementation, and consequences in both sites. Identifies general issues in high stakes testing reform and highlights evaluation's role in mediating complex political, technical, and social issues. Includes 13…

The major problem for principals using the outcomes-based paradigm is convincing teachers that outcomes are the appropriate criteria for judging effectiveness. Although risking teacher backlash, the principal as instructional leader has the opportunity to provide a climate where everyone is both a learner and a teacher. Includes five references.…

Rather than focusing on "proven" practices, Washington State University and the faculties of more than 50 schools have collaborated on Project LEARN (League of Educational Action Researchers in the Northwest) to enhance teachers' professional lives. Teams of teachers actively pursue the answers to their own teaching and learning…

This article is the text of a presentation to the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Preservation Education Program in 1990. The integration of both practical and theoretical preservation issues into the core curriculum at five library schools is described, continuing education is discussed, and future directions are…

Two developments are described with particular significance for the instruction of exceptional students in regular education settings: (1) the articulation of a collaborative consultation model of educational service delivery, and (2) research advances in instructional effectiveness. The article merges these two developments in a discussion of…

Administrator education programs are charged with being outdated and deficient. A coalition of 10 major education organizations plans to establish a national certification examination by 1993 to identify top-quality school executives. Internship programs and working with local schools are strategies proposed to bridge the gap between theory and…

Looks closely at 19 myths about whole language teaching, learning, and assessment. Presents the myths not to criticize teachers but to help all teachers examine their pedagogical assumptions and to learn from the contradictions found. (MG)

Teachers successful at reaching low-achieving students combine a high sense of their own efficacy with high, realistic expectations for student achievement. "Helpless" students may be assisted by "links" to success such as proximal goals, appropriate learning strategies, successful experience, and attribution of success to personal efforts.…

Argues for more blurring of the roles of teachers, students, and researchers. Examines models and metaphors in process instruction (specifically the Jazz Metaphor), and shows how new "blurred" roles for teachers and acceptance of a range of methods can be applied in working with future teachers. (KEH)

Identifies a teaching method which calls upon students to prepare and present lessons for most of the semester. Notes that the technique allows the instructor to derive more enjoyment from teaching and spend less time preparing lessons. Describes application of the method in a "Feminist Theory in the Humanities" course. (SG)

This article presents six guidelines and tips on their implementation when designing practice activities on basic information for learning-disabled students, overall goals being reduction of acquisition time, increased accuracy after practice and increased automaticity. Guidelines are explained in terms of the published research from which they…

Discusses the decreased importance of educational planning to educational development, and the reasons for this trend. Analyzes basic assumptions in the relationship between planning and research. Uses examples from Latin America to illustrate available alternatives for re-establishing an effective relationship between research and educational…

Catholic University's program in law and public policy combines educational techniques for preparing students for law practice, clinical externships, and academic study of the role of law in the formation of public policy, placing equal emphasis on the roles of the public policy lawyer and of public law in society. (MSE)

Analyzes five intellective and nine non-intellective variables to develop mathematical models to predict freshman success and persistence. Lists and describes the variables. Explores the model's attempts in predicting grade point average and chance of success in an engineering school. (MVL)

Replication of a previous descriptive study indicated widespread use of corporal punishment with mildly handicapped students at every grade level in 371 schools. Among data-based findings were that, despite research on the effective use of punishment, corporal punishment was not typically delivered either immediately or consistently. (JW)