Emphasizes importance of educational technology in classrooms and presents action plan to utilize technology to improve American education. Identifies obstacles preventing utilization of technology to its fullest potential. Highlights leadership efforts of federal government to develop teachers' professional skills with new technologies. Suggests…

This study compared reading gains of low-socioeconomic status, at-risk kindergarten students within two curricula collaboratively written by classroom teachers and speech-language pathologists. Compared to the alphabet-based curriculum, the whole-language curriculum showed greater gains in the use of print to represent meaning and similar gains in…

Introduces a collection of articles that critically examines the assumption that privatization is an effective means to increase competition, improve educational achievement, and provide a cure for the national decline in the American standard of living. The historical and political backgrounds of privatization are discussed, along with a summary…

The relationship between organizational support and satisfaction with a collaborative problem-solving structure called the Teacher Assistance Team (TAT), which assists general education teachers concerning special needs students, was studied with 161 TAT members and 127 elementary school consumers of TAT services. Organizational supports involved:…

Presents the results of research designed to explore the possibilities of expanding the number of students in Arabic studies departments and to develop recommendations for admissions policies and course structures. There is a need for cooperation among Arabic departments on innovation in language teaching and for an improved image of Arabic…

A Wisconsin advocacy model for gifted education programs is presented, emphasizing ongoing collaboration and dissemination to most effectively utilize meager resources. Essential elements of the dissemination design are identified, including use of regional sites, requiring participation of an administrator on the team, group problem solving, and…

A practicum model was designed to prepare secondary special education teachers to be collaborative decision makers and reflective practitioners. Over the course of the practicum, the nine participants were found to exhibit more reflective thinking, and collaboration with their peers seemed to assist in developing effective instructional…

A Lewinian orientation to educational problems fits current innovative thinking in education (e.g., models for making education multicultural), and provides the bases of important applied work on cooperative learning techniques and constructive ways of structuring conflict within educational settings. Lewinian field theory provides a broad…

The Student Study Team (SST) is described as a California intervention model that encourages effective multidisciplinary team participation. The development, training, operation, and evaluation of such teams are discussed, and implementation recommendations are offered. The article includes a flow chart of the SST process, a meeting competency…

Physical development should be classified using a multidimensional hierarchical model. Optimal physical development combines physical fitness and skill development. The paper discusses the history of physical fitness, hierarchical nature of fitness, and specificity of fitness, stressing the need for collaboration in facilitating optimal…

Since 1986, Navajo Community College (NCC) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have collaborated to improve science and technical education on the Navajo Reservation through equipment loans, faculty exchanges, summer student work at LLNL, scholarships for NCC students, summer workshops for elementary science teachers, and classroom…

Progress toward alternative approaches to research on teaching and teacher development is reviewed. The researcher-teacher relationship is the focus in discussing collaboration in partnership research. Organizing frameworks for the discussion are the authors' own research, a matrix of phases of research activity, and a matrix of issues in teacher…

Discusses aspects of science-teacher education that should be reformed in efforts to reform science education. The need for reform in science education implies a concomitant demand for reform in science-teacher education. Effective educational standards must accommodate standards for teaching, coordination of teaching and assessment, and systems…

Provides strategies to facilitate more effective professional/paraprofessional collaboration in special education: clarification of roles and responsibilities, discussion of job expectations, daily scheduling, ongoing communication, and regularly scheduled training. Lists sample role descriptions for professionals and paraprofessionals, discussion…

This review of 5 books, 21 articles, and 11 papers on general- and special-education collaboration found that the dominant culture of individualism and balkanization in higher education institutions, the lack of appropriate reward structures for collaboration, and contrived collegiality inhibit the development of collaboration. Characteristics of…