When K-12 schools in California closed for in-person instruction in response to COVID-19 in March 2020, few would have predicted that most schools would remain physically closed for more than one year. Throughout this period, California's educators and students have continued teaching and learning remotely for the most part, demonstrating…

This qualitative case study examined South Korean elementary teachers' beliefs about the goals of multicultural education in relation to practices and contexts within social studies instruction. The first research question examined the distinguishing features of South Korean elementary teachers' beliefs about the goals of multicultural education.…

"The Teaching Revolution" challenges educators to imagine schools the way they should be, with a "big picture" vision that includes student-driven curricula, interconnectivity, and targeted responsiveness to students' individual needs. The authors provide a futuristic and provocative discussion on combining three major instructional…

In this essay, Cathy Sandeen states that the new postsecondary landscape requires looking at higher education as a system that provides multiple pathways in and through the various parts of the system, all with the goal of helping students complete a postsecondary degree, credential, or certificate. Sandeen observes two strengths in professional…

This article, the third in a series of four installments, begins by discussing the need for paradigm change in education and for a critical systems approach to paradigm change, and examines current progress toward paradigm change. Then it explores what a learner-centered, Information-Age educational system should be like, including the APA…

In this paper some of the literature on problems in education is reviewed and several of these problems are discussed. These are: (1) educational inequality; (2) coping with the knowledge explosion; (3) dealing with masses of students in the nation's large institutions of higher education; (4) youth dissatisfaction; and (5) the attempt to…

Discusses methods for introducing innovations in secondary education and describes author's conception of the new high school. (AA)

The United States has been engaged in school reform for three decades. The federal government as well as all fifty states have passed numerous versions of reform legislation to mandate and regulate the process. Educators have adjusted their practices to the policy created by this legislation. They have also allocated hundreds of billions of…

This document considers the relationships between competency-based teacher education (CBTE) and early childhood education (ECE) and examines the implications of these relationships. CBTE is defined as follows: its objective is to specify competencies; it applies systems theory; and it features personalization and individualization, instructional…

The systems approach is a technique that can be applied to assist in problem solving and planning, but in itself does not solve problems. (Author)

Fifteen speeches and reports presented by participants of the 14th Biennial School for Executives of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) comprise this report. Participants' speeches focus on possible solutions or needed changes in education due to the effects of societal change: bringing decisionmakers closer to the…

Examines the secretarial science program in terms of changes in curriculum, course content, and mode of study. (JS)

New senior high school in Little Falls, New York, has space for all the innovations educators dream about. (Editor)

The Syracuse University model educates teachers to confront change and initiate change responsibly in schools and communities. The model's 4 preservice years, composed of seven instructional units, focus on process goals. The first 2 1/2 years are devoted to liberal education with the aim of developing in the trainee new ways of perceiving,…

Individually Guided Education/Multiunit Schools-Secondary (IGE/MUS-S) is a research and development project currently in operation at the University of Wisconsin. As often happens in education, the operational need for the project was so great that it came into existence before it was formally justified in theory. This paper attempts to discuss…