A school renovation referendum's success hinged on a superintendent's visit to Joseph Graves, outspoken leader of an anti-tax group. Graves's book advises educators to marshall the facts and then talk with voters on committees, not at them. After exhaustive discussion, groups will make their own recommendations. (MLH)

Explores University of Technology, Sydney's process to transform its program in management of third sector organizations because of the profound social change caused by globalization. Analyzes the nature of the crisis, offers a rationale for the strategic action taken, and evaluates the first-phase implementation, including the politics of…

Reviews a collaborative process established at the University of Calgary in the earliest stages of strategic planning and maintained throughout undergraduate curriculum redesign and implementation. Offers some lessons learned by the change agents operating within a reluctant environment, including: start with serious self-reflection, understand…

Briefly examines trends and changes in Latin American education policies in 1990s and provides overview of related articles. Examines various education reforms seeking to advance system accountability and promotion of school autonomy; identifies strategies used to implement these goals. Concludes reforms had "very limited positive…

Discusses five core reasons why reform efforts in institutions of higher education so often fail. Roadblocks to reform are identified as: 1) lack of agreement on problems to be solved; 2) unclear time frames and structures; 3) lack of evaluative criteria; 4) failure to articulate changes to the rest of the campus; 5) cultural exhaustion and system…

Discussion of technology integration into the curricula focuses on the needs of teachers who don't want training or are not prepared to learn from it due to lower levels of skill and confidence. Considers how instructional designers can build teachers' self-efficacy and proposes a model that is responsive to teacher's needs. (LRW)

Describes how, after a concentrated period of universitywide cooperation and collaboration, Georgetown University's information technology environment has become world-class. (EV)

Synthesizes articles in this special issue, highlighting the increasing public policy response to connecting child welfare and substance abuse services that will simultaneously serve children and their families affected by substance abuse. Considers challenges faced by these cooperative efforts, including the need to improve administrative data,…

Examined how student's strategies and associated conceptions emerged and changed over a 6-session tutoring curriculum designed to develop conceptual knowledge of linear functions. Found that the student did not erase his original conception or replace it with a conception supported by instruction, but instead refined his initial strategies and…

This article operates from an understanding of diversity as an ontological and moral phenomenon. As such, diversity evolves between people rather than something that is possessed. It can therefore be best achieved through dislocation and evolution. Toward that objective, aspects of the intellectual and pedagogical status quo that depoliticizes…

Replacing the association's longtime leader, David G. Imig, Sharon P. Robinson knows she has a weighty and sometimes unenviable task in front of her. Politicians and education leaders have new expectations of the nation's teacher-preparation programs. It's not enough that they run aspiring teachers through a specified number of courses during…

In this paper, the authors critically examined the problems of admission into Nigeria Universities; and expressed the view that about seventy percent of Nigerians are not aware of the essence of the present system of education, which is geared towards producing individuals with adequate knowledge and skills needed for self-reliance or employment…

Ownership and articulation of general education can transform an institution.

The Penn-Delco School District in Pennsylvania uses a walk-through process focused on looking at student work and talking with individual students. The purpose is to ascertain what those students are able to express about their own learning. At the beginning of each year, a committee of teachers at each of the district's schools meets to identify…

Practitioner inquiry offers a strategy for creating systemic change thus increasing opportunities for all students' academic achievement. Too often, school counselors are considered ancillary in schools rather than an integral member of the practitioner base. However, school counselors are being included in the equation for all students' success.…