British comprehensive schools have been criticized by the left for failing to provide equality for everyone and by the right for sacrificing academic standards for equality. Such simultaneous criticisms suggest that the schools have been assigned either impossible or contradictory objectives, but have managed to achieve a reasonable compromise.…

The instructional service component of academic departments is explored due to concern for the development of a budgetary plan that accounts both for the inherent differences in disciplines and the concomitant instructional methodologies affecting input and output properties and for operational differences among departments. (LBH)

This book is about education system reform in Central and Eastern Europe, with emphasis on decentralization and management. In the past, local authorities served as implementation arms of the central ministry, while finance and decision-making were controlled by the central government, leaving local communities with little influence. New education…

This report provides facts about Nassau Community College (NCC) (New York)--its mission, publications, organization, resources, and faculty and students. Highlights include: (1) Nassau is the largest community college in the state of New York and one of the largest single-campus community colleges in the United States; (2) for the 1999-2000…

A good deal of evidence now suggests that a strong sense of community in schools has benefits for both staff members and students, while providing a necessary foundation for school improvement. This digest in Spanish provides an overview of the literature on schools as communities. The digest identifies the elements of community schools, the…

This paper examines grade spans (grade configurations) and their importance in community school systems. Research has shown that geographic location often dictates the kind of grade configuration districts use. Furthermore, every grade configuration has strengths and weaknesses, and school officials must focus on developing the positive potential…

This study investigated the effects of block scheduling on student learning. It compared the grade-point averages (GPAs) of one group of students during their 9th-grade year while under the traditional 7-period day to the GPAs of their 10th-grade year under the 4-by-4 block schedule. The text offers a history of block scheduling and lists some of…

Described Indiana University's new Division of Teacher Education. (RK)

Article presented a description of a rapidly growing kind of academic "service center", and suggestions to faculty for its use. (Editor/RK)

The author claims that faculties of education must prepare teachers for changes now being introduced in the schools and notes reasons why they have not been doing so. He predicts characteristics of the schools in which graduates will teach and teacher characteristics needed; he also describes the program at York University. (JA)

Evaluates materials used for IGE, a program that calls for one-to-one and small group instruction plus much independent study. Emphasis on reading and motivation materials. Describes the program objectives and implementation features. (Author)

The present hierarchical relationship between school and central office is examined. An alternative decentralized system is suggested as a way to make open education possible and to bring about humanization. (Author/DN)

Overall aim of this paper is to identify and clarify a conceptual framework which can be used by educators to formulate a more adequate relation between public education and the democratic way of life. (Author)

An account of the experience of one institute of education which, in light of the James report, seems headed for extinction. (MB)