Offers ten suggestions to aid student newspaper and yearbook staff members in developing new ideas to improve their publications and get them out of the ruts they may be in. (GT)

Illustrates an approach for providing both quantitative and qualitative data regarding teamwork and planning. Describes the utilization of such data concurrently with a "white paper" and survey feedback methodology in an actual intervention. (Author/IRT)

Theoretical issues concerning change and the phenomenon of resistance are highlighted in this analysis of opposition observed during in-service training of high school and junior high school counselors. Behavioral examples are examined with reference to principles found in current change theory for the would-be change agent. (Author)

Examines conceptual problems related to the implementation of higher education reform, including those concerning the relations between planned and unplanned change, the gap between formal reform goals and actual results, and the link between policy formulation and policy implementation. Provides specific examples of these problems in higher…

Examines three aspects of curriculum change: (1) comprehensive plan and goals formation, requiring climate assessment; (2) institutional commitment, gained through leverage approaches (accreditation, competition, or external evaluators) and incentive (e.g., Title III funds, public relations, institutional vitality) approaches; and (3)…

Skepticism about the power of education challenges the educational administrator to (1) attain a better understanding of the sources of dissatisfaction and their implications for change, (2) learn to cope with adversity and make constructive use of it, and (3) define the leadership requirements needed to address education's problems. (MB)

The decline in verbal and writing skills must be combatted by emphasis on straight talk and plain writing in school, emphasis on the importance of language at home, concentration on career education and educational responsibility, and an insistence by educators on lucid speaking and writing. (MB)

A discussion of three training experts' answers to the following question: What can the human resource development specialist do to gain influence and leverage for human resource development within an organization? (WL)

Nowhere in the U. S. is there a well-established system of synergistic elements between theory and practice in industrial education. Industrial technology educators could benefit and vocational education's efficiency be improved by adapting the medical school-teaching hospital model. Implementing the concept SYNTEC (synergistic technology) could…

The author, a psychiatric social worker, describes how he uses the automobile as a means of reaching uncooperative juvenile clients. (HMV)

Reviews the validity of research findings regarding teacher attitudes, the importance of desirable teacher attitudes, and methods of changing undesirable attitudes. (Author/JG)

Examines the nature and dimensions of reengineering. Draws on reengineering's business background to explain the concept's key principles; fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of processes; concentration on business processes, not organizational units; and dramatically improved performance. Shows how the educational reform/restructuring…

Focuses on the aims and achievements of the Romanian Orphanage Trust. Describes the trust's attempts to develop alternatives to residential care, including moving away from directly providing and managing services for children and families toward stimulating and helping the growth of Romanian-led and managed institutions. Concludes that adoption…

Describes the potential of computer technology for language teaching and learning and emphasizes that language educators cannot afford to ignore what technology increasingly has to offer. (Author/CK)