Discusses the importance of participatory management in early childhood programs to achieve trust and commitment to organizational goals as well as to meet individual needs. Provides a framework for understanding shared decision making by examining types of decisions in the early childhood setting and levels of participation. Suggests strategies…

Explains why school-based management fails or succeeds, based on research in 44 schools. SBM fails when principals advance their own agendas, decision-making power is too concentrated, and business proceeds as usual. Success requires teacher-led decision-making teams, continuous improvement, information sharing, staff rewards, facilitative…

Comparison of the career paths of Harvard University's classes of 1970 and 1945 suggests that change of the magnitude of the past two decades can only be endured; the forces that make income insecure also create one-time chances for wealth; and when the obvious markets for one's skills evaporate, go where no one else has imagined going. (JOW)

At 4 Australian corrections sites, 31 teachers adopted a curriculum for the Certificate of General Education for Adults, based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model noting stages of concern and levels of use. The model helped identify and address teacher concerns and barriers to change. (SK)

Presents reprint of original work published in 1957 in "Journal of Consulting Psychology" in which Carl Rogers takes one small segment of theory of psychotherapy, of personality, and of interpersonal relationships; spells it out more completely; and explores its meaning and usefulness. Rogers examines psychological conditions necessary and…

Suggests ways in which teachers may plan and incorporate effectively whole-language theory into existing programs in which basal materials are established and accepted. (RS)

Discusses the strategies top trade publishers, including Putnam New Media, Paramount Communications, Random House, Penguin USA, and Reader's Digest, are taking toward CD-ROM publishing. Strategies include purchasing electronic media companies; setting up an independent business; and building a new media business by integrating new efforts into the…

For the past 16 years, the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning has worked with teachers to help students with disabilities succeed in mainstream secondary classrooms. A two-pronged approach involving strategic learning and content enhancements is the result. Teachers organize content into a user-friendly format, consider which…

Examined attitudes about autopsy by conducting focus group interviews with caregiver support group and senior center members. Themes included benefits, barriers, religious views, and concerns about procedures. Results suggest need for educational interventions to involve family in advance planning; provide counseling regarding purpose, process,…

Proposes changes in the title and structure of nonpsychology doctoral training in counselor education. Suggests a comprehensive linkage system of training, accreditation, credentialing, and employment. Expresses concern that the nonpsychology doctorate degree in counseling is steadily losing ground in the job market to the doctorate in counseling…

Students can activate their minds in a school envisioned as firm (a disciplined production system featuring high production workers); family (a caring, supportive social network of concerned adults and respectful students); fair (a community celebrating participants' best work); and forum (a public meeting place of open dialogue and inquiry).…

Delaware's early experience with the RE:Learning project affirms the necessity of simultaneous top-down and bottom-up reform efforts. Other critical ingredients include awareness of the critical need for change and strong incentives for bucking the status quo. Resistant teacher and administrator mindsets must also be transformed. (MLH)

To influence lasting change in schools, principals must study general research findings, understand people's reactions to change and the limitations of effective schools research, examine sources of change, work to develop an effective leadership style, analyze structures affecting change, use outside facilitators, review and select planning…

Used archival records to compare therapy process in 30 brief psychodynamic and 32 cognitive-behavioral therapies. Analyses of verbatim transcripts of 186 treatment sessions demonstrated that, although some features were common to both treatments, there were important differences. Identified what types of processes led to patient improvement in…

Sixteen therapists in year-long manualized training program as part of Vanderbilt II study of time-limited dynamic psychotherapy changed their interventions in line with protocol, but some unanticipated changes occurred that ran counter to intent of training, including increased negative interpersonal transactions. Found that patient difficulty…