This paper on improvement of schools calls for a broad-based coalition of collaborating parties to articulate a clear moral educational mission and to promote for each community a healthy ecology of educational institutions directed toward this mission, redefinition of schools' role in this ecology, and redesign of teacher education. (JDD)

The development of 14 National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER) school-university partnerships to achieve school renewal and educator education is assessed. The first three sections constitute the substance of the general session of the 1988 Indianapolis NNER conference. The papers provide historical overview of the program, a discussion of…