Australia's National Schools Project tried to facilitate restructuring by abolishing, bending, or breaking the rules that prevented schools from improving student outcomes. Since 1992, the 50-school project has expanded to over 200 sites. An evaluation of three NSP schools identifies barriers (cultural resistance and structural complexity) and…

Offers a framework for thinking about ethical principles through the use of codes of ethics. Examines the ethical issues of restructuring and discusses specific ethical dilemmas. Specifically outlines ethics related to resources allocation and management, and details critical points in restructuring. Argues that ethical guidelines help shape…

A Massachusetts regional high school that was formerly on probation has totally restructured its school day, culture, curriculum, and treatment of professionals. Flex time, offered in exchange for performing building supervision duties, allows teachers more flexibility and control in structuring their professional and personal lives. A more…

Helping every youngster reach his or her potential is a daunting task, but it can be done. Site-based administrators who incorporate leadership guidelines that define the vision, create a positive climate, initiate action, and advocate an equitable learning environment for all students will awaken one day to discover that all students are…

The type of professional community found within a school and its consequences for teachers' sense of responsibility for student learning were studied at 24 elementary, middle, and secondary schools through questionnaires completed by 910 teachers and interviews with 144. Results suggest wide variation in professional community among schools. (SLD)

Teacher union leaders suggest that instead of focusing solely on pay and benefits, unions need to turn their attention to the larger issues of professionalism and teacher quality. The national agenda doesn't necessarily filter down to state associations or local unions. Summarizes union positions of school reform issues. (MLF)

Examines how 18 school principals and assistant principals from 4 midsized school districts understood the meaning of inclusion and what processes (restructuring or reculturing) they would use to implement inclusion in their schools. Concludes that principals' inclusion implementation strategy focuses on school restructuring rather than…

Interprets the development toward greater and less regulation in U.S. educational reform movements in the context of state power. Reviews core and ancillary reform strategies and reflects on reform as the decline of an organizational consensus. (SK)

Guidelines are offered for those involved in a shift from a more secondary oriented, departmentally organized school to a middle level perspective that is more sensitive to the needs of young adolescents. (MLF)

Examines the underlying forces prompting fundamental change in community colleges to meet the requirements of the Information Age. Recommends that community colleges direct institutional energy toward thinking holistically, streamlining governance, redefining faculty roles, diversifying funding, increasing student options, assuring educational…

Describes the Schoolwide Enrichment Model, a systematic set of strategies for increasing student effort, enjoyment, and creative productivity. Explains the Total Talent Portfolio, a model component and vehicle for systematically gathering, recording, and acting on information about students' abilities, interests, and learning styles. Illustrates…

Explains why structural change is an important theme of educational reform, and explores the complexities of structural change in reform efforts and their effects on teaching practices and student learning. The implications of these complexities on the relationship between structure and practice and on future educational reform research are…

Focuses on subtle changes that evolved over three-year study of parent involvement cadre working to implement Harry Levin's Accelerated School Model targeted at high-risk students. Although the school in this study appears to have successfully involved parents in their children's education, parent cadre's underlying purpose is not being adequately…

A conceptual frame is offered for the investigation of issues related to teacher participation in educational governance and teacher evaluation. In a restructured school system both teachers and schools would seek evaluation, not in response to demands for accountability, but as a step toward performance improvement. (SLD)

Discusses one component of the Iowa Distance Education Alliance that encouraged science reform through distance education using the Iowa Communications Network. Topics include curriculum and school reform, learning processes, student engagement and involvement, constructivism, the use of interactive television for distance education, and the Iowa…