Chicago Public Schools made it a priority to make high-quality, grade-level instructional materials available to all teachers and students and provide effective curriculum-based professional learning to support successful implementation. During the early planning phase, several Chicago district leaders came across "The Elements: Transforming…

Nebulous combinations of face-to-face and online learning are increasingly common across Australian higher education contexts. This paper reports on part of a redesign project of an undergraduate education subject at a regional university. The aim of the redesign was to enhance e-learning and blended learning environments. An approach that maps…

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) can bring a wide range of benefits--for children, parents and society at large. However, these benefits are conditional on "quality". Expanding access to services without attention to quality will not deliver good outcomes for children or long-term productivity benefits for society. This new publication…

Briefly discusses the impact of "A Nation at Risk" and identifies factors that will bring about successful educational reform, including changes in curriculum, methods of instruction, modes of testing, and teacher preparation and empowerment. A selected bibliography of nine items pertinent to the educational reform movement is provided.…

Asserting that elementary teachers are going to become increasingly involved with economic concepts, and that economic education at the elementary level is at an important developmental stage,'' the author explains how economics can be included in the curriculum without taking other subject matter out, and suggests approaches to the training of…

EChO (Early Childhood Organisation Inc.) is a group of Australian professional educators whose focus is the education and care of children ages 3 to 8 years. This paper outlines a project effort made by EChO entitled "Enhancing Professionalism for Early Childhood Educators in South Australia by Improving Classroom Practice and Researching…

Advocates an integrated approach in the formulation of speech communication curriculum. Published by the Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, Staff Coordinator, ACA 5205 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041, $25.00 annual dues. (JW)

Describes a teacher education course which focused on study of critical incidents to analyze teachers' decision-making practices. A film which portrayed a teacher in decision-making crisis was viewed and later discussed in small groups. Teachers were asked to relate the film to personal experiences and to keep a journal during the course to…

A workshop exposed elementary teachers to activities from three contemporary elementary science programs. (MP)

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has launched a project to find ways to teach science to nonscientists and to determine what constitutes a liberal-arts science education. The effort grew from a Holmes Group recommendation to improve the quality of teacher education. (MSE)

This handbook contains several suggestions for introducing and maintaining innovative science activities. It supplements the published research findings of the Harvard Study Committee ("Essentially Elementary Science") as well as the summary of those findings ("Something of Value") by offering teachers, administrators, school committee directors,…

An unsettling odyssey through the world of high school composition shows a need for a tough new approach in teaching students to write. (Author)

Reunited Germany is facing an intricate network of social, economic, and political problems. It will take at least a generation of students to adapt to the new Western system espousing freedom of choice, self-motivation, equal opportunity, and critical awareness. Standards of the former West Germany are endangered by changing social attitudes,…