A larger scale context for power teaching includes ideas from Duane Elgin, Lester Brown, Al Gore and many others. Collectively, they say the convergence of systems level global problems without national borders place before humankind a choice the species has never encountered in 195,000 years of life on "Spaceship Earth." In Elgin's…

An 8-week summer institute was conducted to train 27 public school persons to better evaluate Title I, Title III, and other curriculum-improvement programs. Focus was on improving the planning measurement and educational research competencies of the participants. A "core curriculum" of 12 quarter hours for graduate credit was…

Can an effective approach to art education be developed that will not only reach a majority of our students, but will also be practical in terms of existing human and material resources? A study was undertaken to develop and evaluate a series of self-instructional, programed art sequences for the upper elementary through high school levels. Six…