Describes two new, innovative approaches to elementary education being tried in New Jersey and in other states across the nation. (AN)

This case study focuses on the role of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UW-EC) in a consortium effort to implement, maintain, and institutionalize individually guided education and the multi-unit elementary school (IGE/MUS-E). The framework for the study is based on the chronological academic involvement of UW-EC with the various facets of…

Small, private universities can make valuable new social and educational contributions to communities. (Editor)

This technical report provides summary information and evaluation of the activities that were carried out in the institutionalization phase of the implementation of the Individually Guided Education (IGE) Project in the Multiunit School--Elementary (MUS-E). The institutionalization phase, the last of four, is defined as the introduction of IGE…

The flexibility inherent in the multi-unit school organizational plan has been instrumental in making possible the placement of special education students in regular classrooms for a portion of their daily instructional program. This provides unusual opportunities for academic, emotional, and social growth heretofore unavailable to these students.…

IGE is considered one of the better conceived and more promising of current approaches to the improvement of schools and enhancement of education. (MM)

Multiage/multiability grouping is when more than one grade level of students is grouped in a classroom. This report summarizes the research on multiage/multiability grouping in the primary grades. The paper, which is intended for use in Kentucky's educational system, focuses on quantitatively based comparative research syntheses. The text…

The purpose of this theoretical paper is to describe a set of models for the instructional organization of the multiunit secondary school. The school's instructional organization is viewed as a mechanism for structuring resources to influence learning outcomes. The multiunit elementary school (MUS-E) models served as the point of departure for…

Individually Guided Education (IGE) is a comprehensive system of schooling designed to produce high pupil achievement by accepting differences in learning rates, styles, and levels of motivation. Some features of IGE include: a multiunit organization rather than age-grade levels, instructional programing for individual students, and selected…

This document consists of two manuals prepared for staff members and guidance counselors in the Learning Community (LC) program, as practiced in New Jersey's North Hunterdon Regional High School District. The staff members are described as teachers performing in multiple roles. Teachers help establish LCs around educational interests and are…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of the Instructional Improvement Committee's (IIC) involvement in decision making, the representation of teachers on the IIC, and the effectiveness of the Instruction and Research (I&R) Unit in Individually Guided Education/Multiunit Elementary (IGE/MUS-E) schools. The theoretical base for…

This report describes the proceedings of a regional conference held for educators and representatives of public and private agencies throughout the New England area. The sponsorship of the conference was shared by Sears Roebuck Foundation Project and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The primary concern of this meeting was teacher training…

Author describes a design now being tried in a few schools in the midwest", and urges the idea of the school as supportive environment" for learning. (Author/SP)

This paper reports on a study of the relationship between internal and external organizational variables and the adoption of a specific educational innovation--individually guided education and the multiunit school (IGE/MUS). The emphasis of the paper is on the independent variables of structure (internal organization) and linkage (external…