Describes the approach used by the Boulder Valley Public Schools in Colorado to promote the development and dissemination of projects that improved student learning experiences. (HOD)

Suggests time-honored tactics for superintendents wishing to boost community support for schools, including (1) weekly school visits, (2) teacher-observation requirements for principals, (3) weekly board newsletters, (4) daily lunches with school children, (5) minimal yearly teaching requirements for all administrators, and (6) a well-developed…

Urges teachers to become involved in developing and planning gifted and talented programs in their schools. Notes three barriers to program initiation: money, colleagues, and administrators. Suggests 10 guides for success in obtaining programs and stresses that success depends on hard work, risk taking, commitment, and working with others. (SB)

In the early 1970s the Danish Parliament passed legislation that radically altered the governing structure of Danish universities. The causes that brought about the legislation are described and the ways in which Danish academics have responded and adapted to the new system are analyzed. (Author/MLW)

Learn from Columbus: to sail your schools into an unknown future, be prepared to toss out time-worn management approaches and take some creative risks. (Author)

The Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy (CFEE) has begun a 10-year study of educational policy that reflects a world transformed by science and technology. Links between education and the economy and how a national science policy will affect education and the economy are among the areas CFEE will investigate. (JN)

Presents recommendations for school improvement based on the findings from John Goodlad's "A Study of Schooling." Focuses on the implications for Catholic schools of Goodlad's proposals related to decentralizing authority, restructuring schools, redesigning the teaching profession, and creating supportive community structures. (DMM)

Discusses effects of British methods of resource allocation to the colonial universities on the methods used by the successor states, primarily for Ghana and Nigeria, in terms of the national governments' announced intentions and beliefs. Concludes that although the West African systems are similar to the British system, they are very much local…

The author presents a five-stage model for staff development used in a survey of professors and practitioners. The survey found that there is a disparity between what professors and practitioners believe is practiced and what is actually occurring in staff development. (MD)

This article summarizes the issues confronting environmental education planners. The major problems are lack of comprehensive planning and effective leadership, failure to analyze causes of problems and to develop constructive action to provide solutions, and shortage of valid and reliable instruments to measure program effectiveness. (MR)

Examines some of the problems connected with "busing" and school integration, looks at the procedures used in carrying out desegregation, and suggests why some desegregation plans have been successful while some are not. (Author/RK)

Reviews applications of the Delphi methodology to educational issues and provides an evaluation of present trends in its development. (Editor/RK)

Suggests procedures for developing instructional materials in a systematic way. (Author/RK)

Describes in detail a model for determining the optimal allocation of indivisible academic departments for a multicampus university and then uses the model to calculate departmental allocations for the State University of New York at Buffalo, a 23,000 student university with three campuses and approximately 100 academic departments. (JG)