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Glazer, Neil T. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Describes a Cluster Plus plan that groups middle school students into two clusters on each grade level according to ability. This arrangement retains vertical organization into core curriculum areas (mathematics, social studies, English, and science), while allowing flexible regrouping through horizontal team teaching. (MLH)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Class Organization, Cluster Grouping, Instructional Innovation
Gnaedinger, John P. – 1987
Career education is probably best described as a group of concepts and processes, including career awareness, career exploration, infusion of career-oriented material with traditional educational resources, hands-on involvement, and participation in education by people normally employed in the world of work. Vocational education is simply one…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Cluster Grouping
Munce, John W. – 1982
A skills model and clustering system are presented, based on the assumptions that the tasks of all work, including scholarship, require many similar skills that can be identified and clustered. Six levels of competency are addressed: possession, combination, application, quantity, quality, and mastery. These skills can be clustered into adaptive…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Cluster Grouping, College Students, Competence
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Office of Field Services. – 1983
This paper describes school improvement through clusters (or leagues) of the Colorado Department of Education. School improvement clusters are defined as associations of schools and cooperating organizations dedicated to improving the quality of education. Participants work together with a common goal or unifying concept. The paper describes 14…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Cluster Grouping, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Planning
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Jensen, Darrell; Widvey, Lois – Rural Educator, 1986
Describes setting, rationale, organization, schools and communities, activities, and evaluation of a model small school cluster begun in 1981 in South Dakota. Discusses issues in implementing cluster strategies: goals, commitments, size, location, outside support, organizational structure, leadership, meeting schedules, faculty involvement,…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Educational Improvement
Nachtigal, Paul – 1985
Ten rural school improvement clusters involving 63 districts, 7 colleges and universities, and 6 state departments of education have been developed in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and North Dakota through the work of the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory's Rural Education Project. Four essential steps appear necessary for…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, College School Cooperation, Consortia, Cooperative Planning
Aguirre, Francisco; Hawkins, Linda – 1996
This paper reports on the implementation of an Integrated Assessment and Strategic Planning (IASP) process to comply with accountability requirements at the community college of New Mexico State University at Alamogordo. The IASP model adapted an existing compliance matrix and applied it to the business college program in 1995 to assess and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Business Education, Cluster Grouping