Describes uses and advantages of minicourses -- short-term courses offered for less than one semester. (Author)

Describes features of an educational program incorporating a continuum of learning experiences, providing personalized learning more tailored to the child's own interests and learning capabilities than the standard graded curriculum or individualized instruction not incorporating the continuum concept. (JK)

Discusses need for development of higher education study programs that give due recognition to America's extensive black sub-culture and are designed to help Negro Americans realize their legitimate social goals of recognition and achievement. (JK)

This article discusses a recently developed teacher education program that has more than 20 alternative programs from which students can choose. (Author/DN)

Discusses four complementary interventions required for principals to improve classroom visits: Provide clear, grade-specific curriculum proficiency targets; develop results-oriented, teacher team-planned curriculum units; adopt Japanese lesson study approach to teaching; and use data to improve teaching and learning. (PKP)

Despite ongoing school improvement efforts, there are more factors at work to stabilize schools than to change them. Stabilizing factors pervade school organization, curriculum context, unadventuresome textbooks, teacher isolation, and standardized testing practices. Educational innovation is predicated on change in form, content, and goals and…

Describes the process by which a small elementary system (Windsor, Connecticut) combined Individually Guided Instruction and open education. (Author)

A Chicago inner-city high school that attempted "top-down" innovations without true teacher participation finds that little has changed, according to a teacher who has been case historian. (Author)

Educational innovations must be re-directed toward the development of the individual student's maximum learning and problem-solving potential to meet the challenges of contemporary social change. (JH)

This future-oriented position paper provides a wide-ranging discussion of nine crucial issues identified by Phi Delta Kappa chapters and some guideposts for educators who must deal with these issues in coming decades. (Author/JH)

Current educational reform proposals are fixed on modifying existing structures and lack imagination. Cooperative learning and individualized instruction are time-worn "innovations" treating the symptoms of a terminally ill system. This article presents 32 transitions to transform education into a world-based, teacherless experience featuring…

Describes the Community Service Internship program at East Lyme (Connecticut) High School. The program is designed to help students understand the needs of various segments of the local population while allowing them to engage in community service for a substantial period. (IW)