Appointing administrators as instructional leaders worked to the detriment of teachers, who are now expected to transcend the old transmission teaching models and participate more actively in school management. Administrators must now become the servants of collective vision and act as editors, cheerleaders, problem solvers, resource finders, and…

This study of the Western Governors University (WGU) suggests that its instructional model, based on distance education, could increase the value of teaching relative to research. The WGU model envisions a "disaggregated faculty," that is, one in which faculty roles typically discharged by a single individual are delegated and outsourced…

This special newsletter issue was based on a July 1994 forum for educators and trainers of infant/family practitioners. Papers in the first section present emerging conceptual frameworks and the process of helping trainees to use these frameworks. Included are the following papers: "Head Start: The Emotional Foundations of School Readiness as…