This book is part of a series of case studies that demonstrate better ways to educate Ohio's students. The case study is part of the Transforming Learning Communities (TLC) Project, designed to support significant school-reform efforts among Ohio's elementary, middle, and high schools. This report describes the implementation of an innovative…

This article analyzes a study that examined Georgia charter-school teachers' and principals' perceptions of the ideal and actual practices in eight key areas of shared decision making: budgeting, curriculum/instruction, facilitating procedures, goals/visions/mission, operations, staffing, staff development, standards, and their overall impressions…

A case study, part of a larger 5-year Excellence in English (EIE) research project, focused on the Dade County (Florida) School District's Division of Language Arts/Reading. Over a 2-year period, four middle and high school English programs in Dade County were studied as part of the EIE project; this part of the project focused on the professional…

In this far-reaching discussion of curriculum and liberal education, William A. Reid compares curriculum making to the idea of "pursuit." Like justice, Reid argues that curriculum is not something that we own or possess in a material sense; rather, it is an achievement that anyone involved in schooling must and should pursue. Drawing upon the…

Presents portions of a journal kept while student teaching in English in a high school. (TO)

Outlines the process of mastery learning and the benefits it has for student attitude and achivement. (RK)

The author analyzes the concept of deprivation to make plain in what ways it can and cannot be used to crystallize issues facing contemporary educators of adults, concentrating on the kind of deprivation which denies an adult his due share of continuing lifelong education--more likely to be middle-class. (Author/AJ)

Described are impressions of Soviet approaches to educating the mentally handicapped by three American special educators who participated in an official 1972 State Department mission to investigate Soviet programs for handicapped children. (MC)

Reviews some efforts in elementary school science made since the early 1960's, including the Elementary Science Study, Science-A Process Approach, and Science Curriculum Improvement Study projects. Suggests scientists from all levels of the educational and scientific community assist the implementation of these programs. (CC)

The writer's intention is to sketch out a general statement about an approach to rearranging within secondary schools. (Author/RK)

Reviews recent publications dealing broadly with strategies to maximize quality and equality in education. (WM)

Author evaluates the relationship between the levels of political consciousness of black teachers and the social and cognitive development in black children including reasoning, reflection, and elaborative thinking. (Author)

Explores the perplexing process of the education of black students in America, the rudiments of which derive from the philosophies underlying early forms of formal instruction as well as the various and sundry repressive patterns and processes of pedagogy which have characterized the education of black students. (Author/JM)

The first Assembly of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges discussed the role community colleges must assume within post-secondary education. (Author/RK)

This article helps to set the record straight on Dewey's educational philosophy and compares his ideas with those of contemporary versions of free educational opportunities. (Author/RK)