Describes an interdisciplinary research effort being undertaken by the University of Dayton (Ohio) to identify successful diocesan models of educational collaboration, focusing on San Jose, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; Covington, Kentucky; Toledo, Ohio; and Erie, Pennsylvania. (DMM)

If current trends continue, a disproportionate number of America's children will grow up poor, undereducated, and untrained. Skills for Growing, a multifaceted K-5 program designed to develop character, citizenship, and positive social skills, offers a collaborative approach to socialization of children in isolation. (MLH)

Educators participating in the Collaboratives for Humanities and Arts Instruction (CHART) network have found large domains of inquiry in which traditional models had little predictive value and bore little resemblance to experience. Self-organizing systems are open and interactive, have global properties flowing from individuals' aggregate…

A research review points out the role of a "strategic center" in developing and managing partnerships between a camp and other organizations. A separate survey of 14 camp directors found that directors' awareness of their actions and philosophies about providing quality experiences to children were related to the accessibility of their attitudes…

The Gift-in-Kind Clearing House is an innovative service that funnels surplus inventory, equipment, and supplies donated by business and industry to schools, colleges, and nonprofit organizations in the two Carolinas. Corporations receive tax incentives for their outdated products, which schools can often obtain at 10 percent of normal cost. (MLH)

Provides an overview of the Michigan State University Instructional Software Collection, housed by the university library, and the Computing Resource Center, operated by the computer laboratory. Cooperative efforts between the two units, resources and services, collection development, electronic access to the collections, staffing, and publicizing…

Summarizes findings from "The Troubled Journey: A Portrait of 6th-12th Grade Youth," a study of society's role in youth development. Highlights missing supports, destructive influences, at-risk behaviors, and promising strategies (e.g., reduce deficits/increase assets, strengthen youth-oriented institutions, involve youth in caring for others,…

Through the Safe Schools project, initiated by the Education Development Center, Inc., and funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, two urban middle schools in the northeast became safer, more effective places of learning over three-year period. This article describes the process. (MLH)

Two teacher researchers examined the nature of mentoring relationships occurring among and between team teachers at one middle school as they planned for and taught a common group of students. There were five types of (simultaneous) mentoring among teachers: collaborative, clerical, professional teacher, interdisciplinary content, and…

Student empowerment, joining rights with responsibilities, can only be achieved through participating in an activity whose success depends on a whole-group effort. This article describes a teacher's experience working with students to develop the UNIS/UN Student Conference, held annually at the United Nations and organized and run by and for…

Describes an experimental project conducted in composition courses at two campuses of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The project involves the students' exchanging papers and paper critiques between the two campuses to strengthen their understanding of the audience-purpose-style relationship, improve their written evaluations of student…

To improve its alarming dropout rate, a southwestern Texas school district instituted the PRIDE Center, an alternative high school featuring self-paced curricula and flexible timetables for beginning and completing coursework. School social workers formed an ancillary coalition of community, business, and family forces to support prevention,…

Despite considerable focus on school-development planning and cooperative-management forms in (British) primary schools, little effort has been made to link curriculum, staff, and school-development concerns through the work of curriculum coordinators. A recent survey shows that curriculum coordinators are confined to consultant roles. This…

A pilot project used the public library as an Extension information outlet and educational program site. Results determined that, by working with local libraries, county extension centers can disseminate useful information to rural clientele in facilities where they are more likely to look for it. (JOW)

Describes the SerVermont initiative, an innovative volunteer program for high school students supported neither by state legislation nor public funds. It came into being through a nationally recognized service-learning expert's willingness to work closely with the governor, the state education commissioner, superintendents, and community agencies…