Catholic education surfaces as a focus and concern in every age of the U.S. Catholic experience. This article examines the struggles in one, small Midwestern diocese surrounding the establishment and advancement of Catholic education. Personal rivalries, relationship with Rome, local politics, finances, responding to broader social challenges, and…

Staff renewal is a program consciously undertaken and carefully planned to help all members of the college community realize their potential so they in turn can help students realize theirs. (Editor)

This paper describes and evaluates the Follow Through Program in New York City. Although centrally coordinated at the Center for School Development of the Board of Education of the City of New York, each Follow Through Program is based on a different educational model, and in all cases but one, each model is sponsored by an educational institution…

While the story is autobiographical, it is also the story of Fairleigh Dickinson University, thought to be one of the last private universities to be established in the United States. Its early development was inspired by the philosophy of New College, Teachers College, Columbia University. Fairleigh Dickinson's establishment represented an…

The process of field-based teacher education (FBTE) over a five-year period at the Washington University (St. Louis) is reviewed, with emphasis on two areas: (1) shifting philosophical bases upon which the program was constructed and (2) recurring implementation problems impeding full program development. Three philosophies are identified as…

The Local Planning and Assessment Process (LPAP) was developed in response to one objective of the Rhode Island Master Plan for Evaluation. LPAP is designed to encourage systematic planning and assessment activities in the local district. It provides a means by which each local school district can identify and order its educational goals and…

The article describes a national study of the "state of the art in adult secondary education," reports that "there is no field of adult secondary education," and discusses the implications of that dismal finding, focusing on attitudes and policies regarding certification of adults. Adult education faces increasing formalization…

Describes a model career education program at Dallas' Skyline Career Development Center where students receive a balance of academic and occupational education leading to a career. (DW)

Part of the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America," sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.