Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) medical directors and academics (N=450) explored the barriers to and incentives for cooperation between academic medical centers (AMCs) and HMOs in clinical education. AMCs need to be prepared to offer meaningful academic and financial inducements to attract HMOs to participate in teaching. (Author/MLW)

Small school systems can have more program and budget flexibility by working collaboratively with neighboring school systems. This article describes the efforts of three school systems in the Detroit, Michigan, area to share services and resources. Common values, communication, mutual support, and trust proved more important than scheduling and…

Colleges and universities are generating state funding by forming or joining grassroots coalitions. Such coalitions are essential for creating the broad understanding and support necessary to achieve difficult objectives, such as raising taxes. (MLW)

Examines head teachers' accounts of the extent and significance of interschool networking between primary schools, secondary schools, and across the primary/secondary divide, in five groups of schools in the United Kingdom. Analyzes the types of collaboration and the tension between conflict and collaboration for schools within the networks.…

An essential component of community-based rural development is the leadership and problem-solving abilities of local people. The Colorado Rural Revitalization Project--a joint venture of two universities and a state agency--provided educational, consultative, and technical assistance services for a 1-year capacity-building program in 47…

Trends toward increased hospitalization of children and youth in facilities for the mentally ill and emotionally disturbed suggest the need for educators to better understand these institutions. This discussion considers hospital characteristics, hospital/school program specifics, and aids to communication between hospitals and schools. (DB)

Despite recent criticisms, U.S. society is getting a good value for its education dollar. High schools are beset by college influences on the curriculum; special education requirements; overemphasis on student activities; unreasonable international comparisons; the influences of TV, teenage employment, and pathological behaviors; and the…

In 1989, the Ontario (Canada) government established Teacher Education Council, charged with promoting collaboration in teacher education and with Ministry advisement functions. Composed of four members from each major stakeholder group (school boards, teachers' federations, universities, and government), the council addressed various teacher…

The clinical phase of teacher education needs to be a shared responsibility among three equal partners: schools and school systems, colleges and universities, and professional organization of teachers. These partners must develop clinical teacher training criteria that will make teacher preparation programs effective and improve the schools…

American research universities addressed issues of shared funding and overhead for research long ago. British universities are now establishing their own rules. The Commission of European Universities has worked on a model contract that represents progress, but major issues of partnership and patronage arising from differential institutional…

Four primary schools and one secondary school established a working partnership to provide continuity for pupils as they transferred from one school level to another. Records the management and progress of the project. (10 references) (MLF)

Summarizes Virginia Tech's educational reform activities inspired by the NASSP Alliance project, focusing on improved mentor training for faculty, the positive influence of assessor training on curriculum design and delivery, practitioners' increased involvement in program planning and implementation, consortium networking's effects on information…

Defines and describes cyber-collaboration as the process by which disparate-appearing components wired to the Internet (e.g., libraries, publishers, bookstores) deliberately move beyond their boundaries and merge so that mutually beneficial improvements occur. Discusses technological juxtaposition, creative collaboration, and opportunities for…

Describes ENFOR (environmental forestry) and initiative of the New England Governors' Conference, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the U.S. Forest Service that is exploring whether distance learning through home computers can be used to improve the management of New England's 700,000 privately owned nonindustrial forestlands. Courses and…

Explains the AN-MSI (Advanced Networking with Minority Serving Institutions), an alliance of minority-serving institutions that are working together to reach information technology (IT) parity. Describes partnerships that have been formed to support four main activities: assisting campus leadership in IT planning, network technologies, Internet…