Steps that physical educators can take to ensure that their gymnastics programs are top notch include asking local experts for help, focusing on student learning and assessment, using solid lead-ups and progressions, emphasizing safety, using teaching situations, providing feedback, managing the class effectively, being budget conscious, and…

This article is not about local governance of education "per se," but rather whether education can be used as a tool to foster citizen participation, particularly that of women. It examines how education might empower women, who are often excluded from local, regional and national governance, to participate in public life. It draws on…

This report describes the model used by the Oregon State System for Higher Education to assess the impact of higher education on the growth and change in students as a result of participation in higher education. The model prescribes assessments of general knowledge and abilities, learning environment, major field knowledge, degree completion,…

This book is an outcome of a project examining how colleges and universities have instituted and carried out changes in their general education programs. The study involved a telephone survey and campus visits. The colleges and universities in the interview sample (N=71) ranged from large regional institutions offering undergraduate and graduate…

A study was done of the possible uses of Total Quality Management (TQM) for enhancing the quality and use of college outcomes assessment in postsecondary institutions in Tennessee. The study involved six meetings of a consortium of assessment coordinators in Tennessee over 3 years, and graduate and employer questionnaire development. Researchers…

This paper offers a vision, referred to as the "network" vision, and a new set of strategies for higher educational institution management to meet the challenges posed by social and economic changes of the near future in the 1990s. This vision conceives of the modern higher education institution as an information-intensive organization…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held a meeting of experts on education indicators to discuss the role of these indicators in the 1991 World Education Report as well as future issues concerning education indicators. The meeting was opened by the chairperson with a review of the usefulness of indicators…

This guide is the first in a series of guidelines designed to be a framework for positive action at the school site and in the classroom through the High Schools That Work program, an effort to raise the achievement of career-bound students. It focuses on the first step for superintendents, principals, and vocational leaders: to introduce the…

This guidebook is designed to serve as a resource and road map for restructuring schools, focusing on the development of a systematic process to implement and manage change. Chapter 1 defines restructuring as the reform of school-organizational relationships and processes to increase student learning and performance, with a focus on the following…

Prospective founders of charter schools must gain the approval of a public organization empowered by state law to grant charters. Common examples of chartering entities include state and local boards of education, boards of public universities and community colleges, and specially created charter-school boards. This guide is designed to help…

"Channel One" is a 12-minute educational television news program broadcast daily to thousands of schools in the United States each school morning. The purpose of this research project was to study and describe how Channel One is used by social studies teachers and their students in the classroom, and what impact this use had on teachers…

Suburban high school administrators should attempt to open lines of communication and cooperation between their schools and inner-city high schools. The quality of inner-city high schools has deteriorated in recent decades due to a variety of reasons; however, this does not mean that they should be ignored. There is still much that is worthwhile…

This annotated bibliography of journal articles and documents on educational quality indicators contains approximately 230 entries arranged by the following topics: (1) indicator systems, including international, local/provincial/state, models, and national/federal systems; (2) interpretive framework (context, inputs, processes), including…

This book is designed to serve as a handbook for early childhood professionals and others interested in improving the quality of early childhood services available to young children and their families. It also serves as a resource for information and tools that can be used to: (1) build a compelling case for improving the quality of early…

Teacher educators and others concerned with the present-day school reform movement may profit from a consideration of the leadership styles, psychological make-up, motivation, work habits, and personal charisma of some of the reformers of the past century. This paper examines the work of Horace Mann and attempts to juxtapose elements of his…