This booklet is a reflection on a quarter century of successful leadership in a school that pioneered the nongraded learning environment and demonstrated the effectiveness of other innovations such as team teaching, elimination of tracking, long-term developmental objectives for each student, performance-based assessment, and cooperative learning.…

Educators increasingly agree that creating more inclusive schools by eliminating rigid ability grouping is important to improving education; this task will take years of study, persuasion, and staff development. This booklet is designed to assist school leaders desiring to study the issue, persuade others of its correctness, and create learning…

A survey of 80 management, supervisory, and administrative level employees in a small private hospital (32 responses) in the northeastern United States examined beliefs about the relative effectiveness of different career strategies and worker characteristics, such as age, work experience, company experience, organizational level, and gender,…

Findings of a study that identified time management strategies used by schools involved in restructuring to address the problem of time are presented in this paper, which is based on the assertion that school faculties need time to restructure while implementing new programs. Methodology involved a survey of 31 schools and 14 school districts that…

This book explores the key issues of learner assessment in terms of who it is for, what modes of assessment exist, what makes for sound assessment, why assessment is done, what agencies are promoting innovative methods of assessment, and the catalysts for change. Practical suggestions on how to assess more effectively are provided, including…

This report provides comments from the General Accounting Office (GAO) on recommendations contained in the National Performance Review's (NPR) September 7, 1993, report which addressed ways to make the government work better and cost less. Generally, the GAO agrees with most of the NPR's recommendations and believes that successful implementation…

This monograph describes a number of successful solutions that have been used in schools involved in school improvement planning. Problem-solving strategies used by schools across the United States to address various situations are described, in which each school focused on student achievement and teaching learning for all students. The practices,…

The challenge of changing belief systems to engender educational change is explored in this bulletin, which asserts that the current American educational system inadequately prepares students for productive participation in a rapidly changing information-oriented society. Change in the United States culture implies that alterations in education…

Designed for family child care providers, this report offers information and guidelines for the action planning involved in organizing for advocacy. Discussion covers issue campaigns, reasons to organize, considerations involved in determining and promoting issues, and strategy development. It is recommended that providers focus on a particular…

Research results concerning determinants of organizational effectiveness of colleges are presented, and concerns pertaining to this type of research are addressed. A major research question is whether the study of institutional effectiveness can identify indicators of long-term organizational viability. In 1980, organizational effectiveness was…

This article argues that researchers, in their efforts to refine measures of teacher behavior, have neglected many of those interconnected processes and events which impinge upon behavior in the teaching environment. This, in turn, has fostered inadequacies in the models used to explain factors influencing teacher behavior. (RC)

Commitment to serve handicapped students in vocational education is still disappointingly weak, but progress is being made in four areas: awareness, acceptance, actual programs, and job placement. (Author/BP)

The educational system's relevance is being questioned in all parts of the world. The role adult education plays in making significant changes by influencing formal school education in theory and practice faces numerous socio-political, socio-cultural, and socio-economic obstacles. (BP)

Locality development, social planning, and social action are three types of social change models examined in terms of how they might better serve the elderly as a political force. Political education and political action for and by the elderly are recommended as appropriate areas for social welfare agency involvement. (LH)

The accumulated evidence argues that a school contemplating curricular innovation will heighten its chances of success if it first gives staff members practice in new norms and skills for the collaboration that will be necessary to the innovation's success. (Author/AM)