Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, with new AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT opening up new opportunities in higher education for content creation, communication, and learning, while also raising new concerns about the misuses and overreach of technology. Our shared humanity has also become a key focal point within higher…

Brian Tomlinson is a Visiting Professor at The University of Liverpool and a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Professor at Anaheim University. He has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum developer, university academic and soccer coach in Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, Vanuatu, UK and Zambia and has…

Glasser builds his alternative, a "School Without Failure," on an analysis of what children need to achieve a successful identity and on an examination of the ways in which schools affect children to teach them failure. The author discusses the Glasser approach and describes an attempt to implement the approach in a Palo Alto elementary…

Discussed the need for humanizing educational experiences in our society. (Author/RK)

In this speech on the education of teachers, the author discusses the following value premises: (a) freedom; (b) personalization of performance goals; (c) inquiry (teacher education must focus on the student's ability to be a responsible inquiry system); (d) knowledge based on usage that will foster social self-actualization in the student…

A personalized approach to teaching, an enthusiastic staff, a 50-50 racial composition, and a strong affiliation with a university college of education contribute to the success of what may be a model elementary school for South Carolina. (Author/EA)

This 293-item catalog lists selected entries that should be useful to planning groups and others interested in establishing new school programs. It is concerned with what is considered a crucial step in the planning process--searching for alternatives. Past experience with school-community planning efforts has shown that, in the search for…

To develop a dissemination strategy for optimal impact on the educational community and to establish a working relationship with State Education Agencies (SEA's), Research for Better Schools (RBS), in 1971, formed a nationwide network of schools as a proving ground for Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI). The network includes a partnership…

The conference provided the medium within which the views and recommendations of outstanding authorities among teachers, administrators, and college personnel could be formulated and disseminated to the profession concerning what kinds of schools this nation needs for the education of children from two to adulthood. In the first speech, Richard L.…