A program in helping troubled students solve their problems is presented. (CK)

Argues (guided by "The Challenge of Change: Assessment in the 21st Century") that in the decades ahead, assessment will play an unprecedented role as the vehicle that will influence and guide scheduling, curriculum, and instruction. (SR)

Discusses "intensive scheduling" as an alternative to the concurrent method of arranging high school students' classes. Defines intensive scheduling as the placing of students into one class for three or four hours a day for four or five weeks. (FL)

A Connecticut high school has devised a registration procedure to avoid computerization confusion. The author, who is principal of the school, gives the details of the new method. (MF)

A description of the development and operation of the home-school conferencing program at Frederick Roehm Junior High School in Berea, Ohio. (SJL)

Those teachers who feel uncomfortable in crossing disciplines still believe in process learning, problem solving, humanizing education, and relating subject matter to total learning. That is what a Field Trip Course is all about. (Author/RK)

Article considered an independent study program in which students assume all practical responsibility for their learning, for the use they make of released time, and for accomplishing the goals of their study. (Author/RK)

Describes a curriculum model designed to clarify some issues involved in individualized instruction. Its intent is to sort through the vast array of programs developed for individualization and to achieve a better understanding of the concept of individualized learning. Based on informal and formal approaches, the model contains: goals and…

Expansion of the counseling program of an appalachian county due to merging schools "into a single administrative unit with one curriculum and one master schedule, all tied together by an audio-graphic network. (Author)

A program was developed in the Norwalk, Connecticut schools to smooth student transition between elementary, intermediate, and high schools. It includes spring orientation activities and staggered opening of school in September to give each new class full staff attention on the first day of school. (SJL)

Advances the notion that students should be assigned to classes according to the time of day they learn best. (JC)

Reports on Minnesota educators' views of the changes that will occur in secondary education over the next 20 years. Examines possible changes in curricular emphasis and design, instructional design, the nature and organization of the student population, staffing patterns, space arrangements, and time arrangements. (RL)