Focused on undergraduate education, the debate about the curriculum in higher education in the 1980s has been carried on primarily by the higher education system itself. Various national reports and national politics have, at most, provided the environment within which the college and university citizens make the real decisions on campus. However,…

This essay discusses collective bargaining at a small college in Illinois. After a historical review of the conditions in the 1960s that gave rise to collective bargaining units in higher education, recent alternatives and adjustments to the bargaining process are presented, as typified in the recent experience of Carl Sandburg College in…

Ten rural school improvement clusters involving 63 districts, 7 colleges and universities, and 6 state departments of education have been developed in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and North Dakota through the work of the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory's Rural Education Project. Four essential steps appear necessary for…

Schools of choice, established to respond to varying student and parent needs and interests, have unique features that require special teacher attributes. Programs preparing teachers for these schools include more emphasis upon: (1) content preparation, (2) the context of schools and classrooms; (3) the psychology of human growth and development;…

Reviews the Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) from the director's point of view, including the origins and basic structure of the program which ran for six years. The collaboration of teachers, advisers, and trainers is emphasized, research and evaluation procedures are discussed, and learning processes, computer studies, and distribution…

This report is based on a survey of U.S. higher education institutions and national exchange organizations. It highlights significant changes since 1989: (1) substantial growth in number of exchange programs and U.S. institutions sponsoring exchanges; (2) decline in predominance of long-term, broad-range reciprocal exchanges; (3) increase in…

The Cleveland Collaborative for Mathematics Education (C2ME) intends to change the role and status of teachers of mathematics in Cleveland's public secondary schools. This report presents the perceptions, beliefs, and practices of the teacher members of the collaborative project. This research is based upon descriptive and historical data gathered…

This handbook is designed to assist local boards of education, postsecondary educational institutions, and local advisory councils (LACs) in establishing LACs on vocational-technical education. (LACs are a mandatory prerequisite for receiving Federal funds in support of local vocational-technical education programs, services, and facilities.)…

A 9-month project examined the potential for technology to assist rural schools in their programs, identified exemplary programs using technology in rural school districts, and resulted in the production of a guide for rural administrators and teachers on successful uses of technology (issued separately). Technologies investigated included…

Motivated by the widespread assumption that voluntary, independent inter-district resource sharing is a strategy for improving educational opportunities in rural areas (with little or no cost to the operation of the school district), this paper critically examines resource sharing in New York State. A review of the literature between 1960 and the…

Reports on a study of the extent and nature of collaboration in music teacher education between K-12 schools and 204 higher education institutions. Finds significant relationships between the degree of collaboration and: the number of music education majors, the institution's size, and graduate study in music education. (CFR)

Asserts that the national geography standards must be relevant to everyone associated with educational reform. Argues that the special advantage enjoyed by geography during the Reagan-Bush administrations is slipping away. Suggests that one way for geography to demonstrate its relevance is to strengthen its ties with environmental education. (CFR)

Five mission statements for proposed National Institute of Education-supported research centers on postsecondary education are presented to the Director of the National Institute of Education (NIE). Mission statements are provided for the following proposed centers: Center for Research on Postsecondary Learning, Center on Investments in Education…

A 2-year pilot demonstration project was undertaken in two U.S. regions to clarify the concept of regionalism and its application to postsecondary education. This concept was tested in two natural planning and service regions that were artificially divided by state boundary lines: The Upper Allegheny Region II (New York and Pennsylvania) and the…

New England's economic competitiveness in a global economy and the role of the area's colleges and universities in contributing to that competitiveness are discussed, including a review of a similar analysis from the perspective of the state of Maine. The report examines information developed from a study having three research components: (1) the…