This paper describes Maine's high standards for all students and a model for personalizing instruction and assessment to fit student needs, thus providing fair opportunities for all children to achieve the standards. Maine's academic standards, the Learning Results, are structured in three levels: broad performance goals for all students (guiding…

This paper describes Virginia Polytechnic and State University's efforts to effectively adopt emerging technologies on a general basis. The various systems that come into play in this context are discussed, including the macro-system (the university itself) and sub-systems (departments and programs). Introduction of a compensating sub-system,…

The articles in this book examine educational privatization in Eastern Europe. The essays represent a variety of perspectives on education systems in various stages of evolution. The chapters are divided into three groups. The first three chapters discuss educational change and the privatization movement in the Baltic republics of Lithuania,…

Discusses issues raised by the 1970 report of the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children, entitled "Crisis in Child Mental Health: Challenge for the 1970's; "makes recommendations for APA'S response to the report; and proposes a model which could be used to deliver many of the services that are advocated. (Author/JM)

Explains details behind some of the new planning and building terms that represent concepts designed to generate high quality school structures at more reasonable costs than previous traditional methods. (Author)

Discusses a Sloan Foundation undergraduate project conducted at the University of California at Santa Clara, with emphases upon interdisciplinary design. Indicates that engineering should be seen as a broad education for a technology dependent society, rather than education leading to a specialized, dead-end career. (CC)

Discusses a creative engineering systems design program developed at the Clarkson College of Technology with the support of the Sloan Foundation. Indicates that the program leads to greater undergraduate use of computational facilities and more faculty research toward design applications. (CC)

Reviews a variety of techniques for evaluating management in libraries. (JB)

Describes the type of organization known as a charrette; relates its effects to the larger social process, and examines some aspects of the technical and advisory roles of mental health consultants participating in this process, making recommendations where needed. (Author/JM)

Articles purpose is to clarify the present situation with regard to learning system terminology and classification by suggesting an alternate framework which does not rely to any large extent on rigorous definitions. (Author)

Three methods of meeting the need for change in agencies for vocational rehabilitation are described. (MU)

Explores the impact of the Central Office Staff (COS) on educational decisionmaking in a medium-sized city from an insider's'' perspective and sets forth several testable hypotheses. (Author)

Paper is concerned with training within insurance and attempts to show the value of a systematic approach to on-the-job training and to examine the effectiveness of programmes constructed in such a manner. (Author)

For purposes of this paper, author considers the focal issue to be that of teaching decoding skills and confines her definition of reading to the teaching of only these decoding skills. (Author/MB)

Describes a three-unit, one-quarter course centered around the application of scientific and engineering principles to the control of the air-land-water environment for the health and welfare of mankind. (Author/WM)