A dual purpose is served in this paper: The creation, organization, and preliminary success of a university/school collaboration are discussed, and the program is simultaneously posed as a model for adoption by other districts and their neighboring universities and colleges. The paper's introduction details the Oakland School District's problems…

Information is presented about managing collaborative research, focusing on the Small Grants Program (which allows university researchers and school practitioners to join forces and explore problems together with the assistance of a small research grant). The Stanford University setting for research in schools is described with a look at the…

The welfare system is presently being reformed and restructured to emphasize employment. However, while pushing remedial education and job placement for adults, we may be losing a whole generation of children whose failure in school dooms them to repeat the dependency cycle. An alarming number of youngsters are poor, have a chaotic family life,…

The Vermont Outcomes-Based Network, consisting of educators from 10 school districts and the University of Vermont, is a loosely linked organization designed to improve instruction by sharing resources, especially for staff development. Network members have formally adopted an outcomes-based, mastery learning instructional philosophy holding that…

This report looks at what two-year postsecondary institutions can do as participants in economic development at the local, State, and National levels. Chapter I capsulizes definitions and issues, examines how most two-year colleges view the economic development thrust, and gives an overview of the basic approaches they take. To investigate local…

Partly in response to reformists' warnings concerning educators preparation, a formal partnership between Brigham Young University (BYU) (Utah) College of Education and five surrounding school districts was established. Acknowledging the innovative, experimental nature of this endeavor, founders began with a set of common interests, focused mainly…

Monroe Community College (MCC) has formalized 2 Plus 2 Cooperative Degree Programs with selected public and private colleges and universities to insure full transferability of associate degree coursework toward baccalaureate study. The program evolved after a marketing research study revealed that: public perceptions of MCC were mixed and somewhat…

The report discusses exemplary practices in coordinating special education and vocational rehabilitation services. Project sites were nominated and visited and staff interviewed. The first of two sections in the report compares program elements (planning, administration/structure, staff development training and dissemination efforts, vocational…

Mentor, a law-related program sponsored by the Federal Bar Council, New York Alliance for the Public Schools and the New York City Public Schools, completed its second year of operation in 1983-84. This evaluation report focuses on the 1983-84 program expansion implemented in spring 1983. Mentor consists of a series of one-day activity sessions…

This document is Pennsylvania's master plan for environmental education (EE). It includes: (1) a list of planning principles and guidelines to enhance implementation of the master plan; (2) a flow chart illustrating feasibility, planning, action, and impact phases for the years 1983-85; (3) a summary of major recommendations; (4) a chart…

The author reviews traditional practices that make distributive education a proving ground for the new teacher-role of resource manager; he offers step-by-step suggestions for planning, evaluating, and revising, and cites new management aids available in the distributive education field. (Author/AJ)

The cooperative efforts of the Bureau of Business Education in the New York State Education Department and key business educators of the State provided a successful inservice education design and program for secondary school business teachers. (EA)

Described are efforts of Augustana College to integrate special and regular teacher education programs in Project P.R.E.P. (Preparing Regular Education Personnel for Mainstream Programs). Noted are double majors in Elementary Education and Special Education, the physical proximity of both departments, cooperation with other human service…