Pays tribute to pioneer editors of the 1920s and 1930s who broke out of the traditional mold and set children's book publishing on a new course. Explains the course the new editor of "Horn Book" is setting for the magazine. (RBW)

Cautions that since education is complex, efforts to improve education must also be complex, extending beyond enabling principals to exert instructional leadership; that patient work is necessary to complete the absorption of changes; and that common standards for educational achievement do not necessitate standardizing teaching methods for all…

Explains concept of organizational culture (includes systems of values and attitudes shared by organization's members, ways they have developed for handling problems, forms of acceptable solutions), and discusses OCLC, AT&T, and the University of California at Berkeley as examples of managing cultures and organizational change. Twenty-six…

Agrees with the preceding author's call for involvement of educational researchers in teacher education. Otherwise, disputes Joyce's claim to be calling for "radical" changes in teacher education, arguing that many of proposed changes have already been endorsed by national associations in the field of teacher education. (CMG)

This laboratory study of self-monitoring effects examined hypotheses that the direction of reactive effects is a function of the perceived value of the target behavior and that neither the behavior's value nor self-monitoring alone is sufficient to produce significant effects but that both are necessary. (Author)

Defines (a) the role that a management information system (MIS) should play in directing processes of planned change and (b) the types of information which the MIS must gather through various feedback loops if systematic as opposed to crisis oriented change is to take place. (Author)

Notes that the outlook for action by the Congress is dim and can be brightened only by considerable compromise in the areas of such deep concern which will affect the future lives of perhaps millions of human beings. (Author)

The Curriculum of Attainments (COA) Project is investigating a strategy which includes the establishment, expansion and proliferation of pilot CBE programs within existing academic departments. (BD)

Purpose of the article is to capture the flow of a process of persons working toward the goal of bringing TORI Theory into educational systems. TORI is coined by joining together the first letters of each of four factors which seem essential for growth within organizations made up of interacting human beings--trust, openness, realization, and…

Describes the stages of change in attitudes and behaviors necessary for new ideas or procedures to become part of a faculty development program. (JY)

Over 15 percent of children are overweightdouble the rate in 1980. Children's diets are high in fat but low in fruits, vegetables, and other nutritious foods. The National School Lunch Program has had a continuing role in providing students with nutritious meals; however students must choose to eat the nutritious food and limit less healthful…

Discipline problems, limited resources, crowded classrooms. Teachers face many issues each day that can wear down their love of education. How can they stay focused and energized day in and day out? In this book, Joseph Ciaccio shares an approach that transformed him from a burned-out veteran teacher struggling joylessly through each day to a…

To compete in the global information economy, young people today need literacy skills far more advanced than have been required of any previous generation. Strong reading, writing, and thinking skills are essential not only for success in school and the workplace, but also for participation in civic life. Yet many youth lack the requisite literacy…

All have benefited from the industrial revolution which began in the 18th century and saw the gradual replacement of manual labor by machine. In the late 20th century, another revolution has been brought about by the rapid development of increasingly cheap and powerful computer-based technologies. Whereas the industrial revolution occurred through…