Fourteen alternatives advanced for improving teacher education including strong advising programs, total media approach, strengthen foundations area, promote vocational education, develop K-12 concepts in teacher education, and stimulate research. (DS)

In making the transition between the research and theory on goal structures and the literature on open education, five of the more pervasive themes of open education were discussed. (Author/RK)

Schools are essentially human systems; without people they are nothing but wood, concrete, and paper. Yet, the people who make up schools -- professionals, parents, service personnel, and students -- often form into ineffective and poorly coordinated groups, much in the way that employees in the bureaucracies of industry and government become…

In this publication, the authors suggest that the findings reported are sufficiently well supported by evidence to act as useful guides, even if tentatively. The central purpose of the program was to develop a theory and technology for structural and cultural change within the public schools. The program deliberately emphasized both formative and…

Summarizes succinctly many scattered opinions, analyses, and predictions on the state of higher education. (DS)

Balance academic and maturational needs of students and maintain both academic standards and the quality of an expanding school environment are the recommendations of six independent school heads. Their responses in this book of essays are to critics of secondary education who propose (1) that more education should take place outside the school in…