As more and more agencies are moving toward supplying career information on the World Wide Web, it has become apparent that pre-service counselor education career development courses need to become electronically enhanced. Once this enhancement of face-to-face instruction occurs, it is tempting to move to the delivery of courses through distance…

This report looks at six pioneering programs that recruit and prepare principals in inventive ways. Building on their states' modifications to leadership credentialing requirements--and the ability of state-approved preparation programs to apply for waivers from existing certification requirements--these innovative and entrepreneurial programs are…

Issues brought up at the International Consortium for Options in Public Education -- the role and administration of alternative schools, the function of schools, and community control -- are reviewed. (KM)

Describes how the Cambridge Pilot School is working in spite of problems that occur when an alternative school is housed in its parent school and the natural constraints of the two territories come to play. (Editor/GB)

Author discusses the changing role of administors of alternative schools and suggests more training specifically designed to aid alternative school administrators. (GB)

The Indiana University Alternative School Training Program is new, but it has already demonstrated that new procedures for teacher preparation can be derived that can relate to the growing demand for alternative school teachers. (Author)

Analyzes the concepts underlying the claims of the alternative advocates to produce greater freedom and creativity, promote more intelligent and responsible choice, and provide for individual differences in educational decisionmaking. (Author)

Clarifies terms, describes the Consortium for Alternative Education, and identifies the social and educational potential and the accountability element in alternative schools. (Author)

The ways in which open'' may be applied to education are discussed: materials used to stock the classroom, time schedules, physical environment, interpersonal relationships. (JB)

A list of books and articles, periodicals, centers, and clearinghouses dealing with educational alternatives. (JF)

Examines our immediate past and present and draws inferences from them. Also describes some futuristic themes and offers some suggestions for dealing with them. (Author)

Directories of free universities and publications produced by such organizations are provided in this brief bibliography. (SJ)

An alternative inservice concept presented attempts to individualize inservice for teachers. The basic idea is one of offering a large number of possibilities for personal-professional development to the teachers. A brief description of the risk involved and the possibility of inservice growth on the part of teachers is included. (Author/TLJ)

Analyzes Marx's program combining schooling and work. Identifies Marx's moral, economic, educational, training-related, political, and tactical arguments for child labor. Contrasts Marx's views on education and work with progressive and Utopian standpoints. Reviews Marx's model of the factory school and his views on the regulation of child labor.…

A framework for analyzing the social organization of education in nonclassroom environments is developed, based on observations of students in an experiential learning program. The argument is made that the process of education must be understood by the effect of the broader social context in which it occurs. (Author/SK)