The two challenges to postsecondary technical education are: to make technical education a viable guiding force in the career education concept, and the need for technical education to assist in the development and training of manpower essential for future technical growth. (Author/JB)

A key assignment for a person with a specialty in local educational improvement is that of providing a school district with leadership in choosing a program that will meet needs for improvement in some area of concern. This unit presents a problem-solving model as one way of identifying problems and their causes, surveying a range of potential…

Urges the marketing education profession to begin a serious analysis of marketing teacher education. Presents recommendations to direct teacher education activities in the future and four issues of concern to the author: leadership for teacher education reform, marketing teacher education programs, consolidation of "little" teacher education…

Offers educational practitioners direction for the development of a master plan for the implementation and application of computer-based educational technology by briefly examining computers in education, discussing organizational change from a theoretical perspective, and presenting an overview of the planning strategy known as the planning and…

Covering the academic years 1996-97 and 1997-98, this report focuses on activities of the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since the 1996-97 review, and includes a response to recommendations that were made in that review. The paper is divided into two parts--Part A: "Biennial…

Article presented different kinds of contributions and expertises toward research and development of moral education. (Author/RK)

Considered the conditions and requirements basic to change in education. (RK)

Considered a number of factors which operate across any type of change endeavor at any level which ultimately influence the success of an innovative effort. In this case these factors are the level of public and student sentiment. (Author/RK)

Discusses the changes in the first half of this century in journalism education and cites the current state of affairs. (GB)

A new self-awareness for the American Indian and a new approach to the educational system are outlined in this proposal by The Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians. (FF)

This report describes COPED (Cooperative Project for Educational Development), designed to develop and test strategies for planned change in educational systems. Involved were five universities, each with specialized resources and interests. What follows identifies the major organizational and interpersonal issues and describes how the consortium…