Five guidelines are suggested by which instructional developers might produce large, meaningful, and lasting changes in teachers' performance. These are illustrated by a case study which involved nurse educators. Estimates of their successful application in this setting are described. (Author/JEG)

Since individual urban parochial schools have the local autonomy necessary to implement organizational change, they may be better able to benefit from renewal than urban public schools. (JD)

Discusses closing card catalogs in research libraries in terms of feasibility and cost effectiveness and argues for continuing the catalog. Techniques for integrating the new headings into existing card catalogs, and the advantages of delaying the switchover are discussed. (MBR)

A procedure is presented that provides data for deciding whether or not an innovation can be implemented well and where effort should be expended to help ensure trouble-free implementation. (MM)

Analyzes the trials and tribulations of a key group in the Delaware desegregation process, set up by a governor's executive order to help prepare the seats for a peaceful transition to desegregated schools. (Author)

Social Competence Training (SCT) is a composite, voluntary program of instruction and group treatment initiated at the California Correctional Institution to work out individual problems of inmates as well as moderating the overall social situation at the institution. (Author)

A total of 122 children participated in 2 experiments that examined the utility of symbolic modeling stimuli in modifying sex role stereotypes. Brief presentations of illustrated stories involving egalitarian sex role models reduced stereotypic thinking. (SB)

Many would-be reformers have become so entranced with educational standards that they fail to recognize accompanying problems, such as optimal generality and subordination levels. There is really no difference between instructional objectives and content standards. Other perils of content standards include inadequate descriptive vigor,…

Teacher union leaders face an apparent paradox between dual interests--teachers' educational interests and self-interests. This case study of a small New York school district demonstrates how union members and leaders constructed the dualities differently and how these constructions influenced their behavior. The paradox-construction perspective…

Describes how the author, a fifth-grade teacher, found the desire, the inspiration, and continuing motivation and rewards to break out of her traditional teaching practices and implement the Reading Workshop in her class. (SR)

While many colleges and universities have undertaken organizational change, many also have failed to produce such change. One reason may be that the failed planning processes have been overly rational, quantitative, and linear, neglecting intuition, artfulness, and sudden social and human shifts. Chaos theory, which describes systems and…

Describes the importance of four essential elements in a community's efforts to create positive youth development: connectedness, continuity, dignity, and opportunity. Identifies children who are in need and discusses what communities can do to care for and love them. Lists strategies that each community member can take to foster change. (RJM)

Relates curriculum change theory to changes in vocational education and training. Defines dissemination as a central strategy in the change process. Examines the role of top-down educational management and bottom-up teacher collaboration in the change process. (Author/SK)

Explores "service" as a continuum from charity to social change, and describes implications for service-learning in higher education. Based on a review of alternative theories, a student survey (n=83), and interviews with five practitioners, argues that there exist related but distinct community service models (charity, project, social change),…