The "Change" undergraduate teaching program identifies and describes some of the best undergraduate teaching now going on in American colleges and universities. The basis for election is a set of carefully developed criteria that define improved teaching in terms of learning goals and outcomes, with special emphasis on the adaptability of the…

Questionnaire data indicates the 10 innovations in higher education most likely to receive support from administrators: field experience, independent study, instructional technology, innovative graduate programs, faculty promotion and retention, nontraditional studies, school-community relationship, student evaluation, educational philosophy and…

The liberal consensus that has shaped national education policy is seen as succumbing to dubious ideas and undesirable practices. Issues discussed include: educational equity, equality and quality; measures of educational achievement; accountability; "need" and ability; statism and monoply, pluralism and diversity; federal role; and…