Principals desiring to make their schools more responsive to change need to establish a flexible management system, decentralize decision making, redefine job descriptions, and develop achievable goals to equip schools to meet new challenges. Pushing authority downward allows those closest to the environmental change to observe, analyze, and react…

Day-care centers may ask for and obtain unspent money set aside by parents for child-care expenses, using employer-provided dependent care plans. Recommends tips for working with parents, steps for keeping accurate records, and ideas for the future. (SM)

Summarizes findings of a study identifying problematic aspects of the deputy principalship (job dissatisfaction and lack of a significant professional identity) in self-managed Western Australia primary schools. Deputy principals can reshape their positions by increasing their role awareness, assuming greater policymaking responsibility,…

A personal agenda for changing racism and sexism includes awareness, acknowledgment, commitment, understanding and valuing diversity, self-awareness, reflection, affective learning, and behavior change. On the professional agenda are changes in teaching practices, clarification of goals and values, staff development, community collaboration, and…

A fabricated conversation between two humans and a dolphin at Marineland illustrates man's relationship to nature and the impact that human actions have on living creatures and the environment, and stresses developing a deeper understanding and value for the natural world and consideration of the universality of continued human error and…

To address older adults' learning needs in United Kingdom, the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age was established in 1991. Paper reviews current adult education situation, provides framework for further policy analysis, and provides list of policy options. Paper calls for development of a "social economy of the third age" that would…

Examines the benefits and pitfalls of large-scale concurrent planning--working with families toward reunification while developing alternative permanency plans. Notes that as large-scale programs begin to develop nationally, those implementing concurrent planning must be aware of pitfalls that can undermine effectiveness, while keeping in mind its…

Proposes developing marketing into a discipline, which would help organizations respond appropriately and profitably to changing market demands. Asserts that using the PRAISE Marketing Process as a model may assist businesses in defining a marketing purpose, and helping them research, implement, and evaluate their marketing plans. (VWC)

Examines how provocation and willingness to become engaged can contribute to collaboration and enhance the learning process among young children. Discusses the role of collaboration in the emergent curriculum, factors to consider before expecting learners to collaborate, ways of sustaining conflict, and use of doubt to practice critical thinking…

Discusses the most suitable organizational model for the university, considering its unique role and needs, and the challenges currently faced in a knowledge-oriented society. Suggests that the university's academic organization become more organic and adapt to the different organizational requirements of the two central university activities,…

Defines and discusses 10 program-development, research, and policy-analysis needs that are crucial for the continued success of the supported-employment program for individuals with disabilities. These include the following: consumer choice and self-determination, meaningful employment outcomes, employer needs and perceptions, natural supports,…

By creating and fostering a community climate, everyone becomes invested in education. Culture is a pattern of shared basic assumptions that creates the social skills and behaviors of people within the organization and conveys a unique organizational identity. Community support enhances motivation, desire to learn, and willingness to succeed. (MLH)

Reports on two reengineering projects at Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts) that led participants to conclude that business process reengineering (BPR) in higher education involves a magnitude of cultural change that differentiates it significantly from BPR in the corporate world. The two projects involved redesigning a library department and…

Explains four historical discontinuities: time and space; mind and body; real and virtual; and humans and technology. Considers how an awareness of them can assist librarians in creating virtual space for libraries, adapting to changing roles, and developing new value-added services. (Contains 126 references.) (Author/LRW)

Discusses reasons why public administrators in the United States; tend to have a parochial U.S.-centered view of the public affairs discipline and the associated negative effects such views have on U.S. public affairs. Proposes an agenda for strengthening the development of an international and comparative perspective in teaching public affairs…