The higher education reform movement is struggling against the existing faculty reward system and academic culture to support active improvement of college instruction. (MSE)

Offers six organizational principles for restructuring liberal education focusing on educational coherence and commonality, institutional commitment, alternative models, undergraduate educational needs, and political responsiveness. (DMM)

Issues in strategic planning for higher education are examined in the context of institutional climate, governance, management considerations, the collegial tradition, conflicting objectives, and the disciplines. It is proposed that management for change begins with the rebuilding of a sense of community in the institution that will foster…

Implementation of programs of cognitive development need to be considered in the context of a schools readiness for educational change. Eight questions to help identify important issues focus on ability, values, ideas, circumstances, timing, obligations, resistance, and yield. (Author/DB)

Investigated the change processes that laypersons and psychologists reported using to overcome psychological distress. Interpersonal relationships and willpower strategies were employed commonly in both samples; medication was used infrequently. Gender, education, and previous treatment were related to coping processes among laypersons. Relative…

The prevalence of cheating in the schools, student attitudes toward cheating, and the social mores excusing cheating are considered in this article, and suggestions that can be followed by parents, students, and teachers to eliminate cheating are offered. (PGD)

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's presidents' commission, viewed initially as a limited-authority advisory panel, has taken a dramatic leadership role in keeping the management of intercollegiate athletics within the institutions and facing the challenge of irresponsible outside interests. (MSE)

The authors discuss changes that will appear in the 1988 edition of the General Educational Development (GED) test. Changes include (1) a focus on comprehensive, integrated skills; (2) a need for highly developed thinking skills; (3) use of a computer technology theme; (4) writing assessments; and (5) changes in content areas. (CH)

Younger children often have problems playing baseball using adult rules because pitchers lack ability to throw consistently and batters have trouble hitting erratically thrown balls. A modification of adult rules allowed the team coach to pitch to batters. More offensive and defensive activity occurred in the nontraditional games than in…

Schools must use recent educational reports to help define appropriate goals and expectations. Staff developers can help in this process by working with school staff and the community. (DF)

The importance of developing teachers' skills and feelings of power and professionalism is stressed in an interview with Ernest Boyer. Other topics of discussion include the establishment of a "teacher excellence fund" and the concept that school improvement is "people improvement." (DF)

A forum sponsored by the RISE Teacher Center illustrates how teachers and policy-makers can work together to effect educational change. (DF)

Effects of instructional strategies and demographic variables on attitudes toward disabled persons were studied. A pre- and postexperimental design study, using independent study, lecture, and film, revealed no effect for instructional strategies. Some demographic variables seemed to affect attitudes. (Author/CH)

The principal assigned the task of transforming a "disruptive" junior high school into an effective middle school describes problems encountered and steps taken in the areas of staff development, shared power, the accountability system, human relations, academic enrichment activities, and articulation and improvement of attitudes toward the…

Examines the current role of nutrition research as a component of home economics, predicts a greater importance for nutrition research, and offers remedies for problems arising from conflicts between the two disciplines. (JB)