This book offers college and university administrators the information they need to take the next critical step they need after formulating a strategic plan. It includes concrete suggestions on how to implement a plan that will be conducive to both the institution and the community. The chapters are: (1) "Forces of Change and the Importance of…

This book demonstrates four strategies to help administrators and teachers implement high standards: pacing guides, staffing meetings, formative assessments, and instructional interventions. The chapters are: (1) Introduction and Overview; (2) Creating Pacing Guides: The Curriculum Component; (3) Creating Pacing Guides: The Assessment Component;…

Explores the impact on K-12 environmental education and the preparation of K-12 teachers to deliver effective environmental education of the national and state standards movement begun by the Goals 2000 program. Describes what constitutes effective environmental education, the role technology might play in such education, and how national and…

Describes the efforts of a Denver (Colorado) comprehensive high school to develop a "Direction 2000" plan to restructure its purposes, goals, and program. In the awareness and planning stages, participants listed the school's strengths, compiled a "why change?" list, and outlined 10 attributes of a restructured school. (MLH)

The eight-step leadership model for implementing technology education, presented here, is one in which leaders use the principles and practices of individual and organizational transformation. (JOW)

Discusses the effects of the teacher educational reform proposals on industrial teacher education. Indicates that additional information is needed before wholesale program modifications can be implemented. (JOW)

Discusses strategies for the implementation of programs thought to be worthy of greater exploration by individuals involved in the correctional education process. (JOW)

Responses from 106 of 363 industrial arts/technology education/trade and industrial teachers in North Carolina on the Stages of Concern Questionnaire found the majority positive about curriculum change but concerned about its personal effects, allocation of resources, and state requirements for implementation. (SK)

Issues are discussed that arose in the training and implementation of the Advanced Learning Environments Model (an approach to restructuring educational services to accommodate full-time mainstreaming of most mildly handicapped elementary students) at two sites. A brief description of the model and sites is followed by specific issues. (Author/PB)

Differences in theories of actions may be a source of considerable conflict in education reform. An analysis of the first two years of the ATLAS Communities Project shows how different theories of action contributed to significant disagreement over issues on the process of change, nature of curriculum, and personal and organizational development.…

Access to higher education is a key challenge of the 21st century state. The link between higher education and personal and socio-economic development has intensified the need for ensuring that greater numbers of citizens have expanded access to and have been provided with quality higher education. The article seeks to explore how initiatives for…

The increasing importance of schools and learning in the changing patterns of work and society is widely recognized. However, implementing and sustaining educational reforms pose major problems in all countries. This paper briefly: (1) summarizes conceptual trends in implementing educational change, (2) reviews the complexities of educational…

This paper explores a particular contemporary instance of the implementation of central government policy linking higher education and sustainable development. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)'s strategic plan for 2006-2011 (HEFCE 2006) includes a commitment to establish a baseline assessment of the contribution of the…

Two pressing education reforms entail improving students' reading skills and improving high schools in the United States. In this article, the authors focus on both of these issues by adding the voices of students in an underperforming high school to the discussion about reading reform. We present the results of a larger study pertaining…

There is growing concern that almost 20 years after the 1988 Education Act, top-down, large-scale reform has stalled. The policy mix of choice, competition, markets, regulation, accountability and leadership seems not to have closed the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged areas and individuals, while most variations in school performance can…