Joseph A. Spagnolo, Virginia's new state superintendent, has boldly reorganized the state education department in ways unmatched by other states. He has eliminated 99 of the agency's 531 jobs and hopes to transfer the responsibility for adult education and proprietary schools to other agencies. In this interview, Spagnolo discusses his…

Describes the use of "open scenes" to meet state-mandated educational goals, such as those in Kentucky's Education Reform Act. Discusses how open scenes can be an effective pedagogical technique to develop acting skills and help students meet the goals of current educational reform. Discusses the use of a GOTE sheet (goals, other,…

Provides the historical background and process towards decentralization of Mexico's Administrative Board of the Federal School Construction Programme (CAPFCE), a decentralization that transfers responsibility for educational building to Mexico's 32 states. Lists key points of the decentralization agreement and explains the new role of the CAPFCE.…

Study examines the relationship between effective principal leadership characteristics gleaned from current literature on principal evaluation and certain tenets of principal evaluation statutes in 11 of the 19 North Central Association states. Finds that many state statutes do not list effective leadership characteristics. Makes six…

This article presents specific teaching material for the primary school level that introduces basic concepts of environmental comfort. The authors developed 2 booklets to make children aware of the built environment. Following a postoccupancy evaluation of state schools in the city of Campinas, in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the research team…

On December 11, 2003, the Reading, Pennsylvania, School District, on behalf of "their students and their schools," filed a "Petition for Review" with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. In filing this petition, Reading became the first school district in the nation to sue a state education department over the No Child Left…

The purpose of this article is to challenge the assumption that a wholly secular spirituality offers an appropriate basis for encouraging spirituality in state schools. It does this by, firstly, drawing attention to the reality of secularist indoctrination in our society and in our schools. This makes the anxiety about religious indoctrination, so…

This article examines the notion of spiritual development as it was conceptualised for state schools in Britain through the Conservative Government's education reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, reforms which also introduced the National Curriculum. The article puts forward the argument that spiritual development was conceptualised in such a way as…

U.S. teacher educators are faced with serious challenges to demonstrate the quality of the graduates they prepare. These challenges are expressed in the country's fixation on accountability and testing. We are witnessing the growth of standardized tests and alternative routes to certification as panaceas intended to solve the teacher shortage…

Cherbourg State School is some 300 kilometres northwest of Brisbane. It is situated in an Aboriginal community at Cherbourg with approximately 250 students, all of whom are Indigenous Australian children. Cherbourg State School aims to generate good academic outcomes for its students from kindergarten to Year 7 and nurture a strong and positive…

With passage of S-1516, the new school aid law on which State support for local school districts is supposed to be apportioned for 1976-77, the deadlines described in this timetable now apply to each school district's local budgetmaking process. (Author/RK)

Article outlined the condition of New Jersey's budget with its problems, recent history and future prospects. (RK)

In a presentation at a symposium on educational media for teaching the deaf (1974), the author describes the development of media facilities and use of a coordinated media systems approach to teaching language and reading at the Wyoming School for the Deaf. (LS)