This essay presents infrastructuring as a useful construct for guiding efforts to support more equitable implementation and sustainability of resources developed to support student learning in design-based research. "Infrastructuring" refers to activities that aim to redesign components, relations, and routines of schools and districts…

The Common Planning Time Project of the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group (MLER SIG) of the American Educational Research Association provided an avenue through which researchers from throughout the United States could investigate numerous aspects of common planning time in schools. Although several studies have investigated…

Using the wealth of sites available in the Chicago metropolitan area, online learning technologies, and classroom interactions, Roosevelt University's seminar "The Sustainable City" takes a multidisciplinary approach to urban ecology, waste management, green design, climate change, urban planning, parklands, water systems, environmental…

THE PLANS, DECISIONS, AND EVENTS WHICH TOOK PLACE DURING THE FIRST STAGES OF FOUNDING A NEW COLLEGE IN A CHICAGO SUBURB WERE DETAILED. THE INVESTIGATOR EXPECTED THAT ACCOUNTING FOR ALL THE INITIAL FOUNDING OPERATIONS IN A SINGLE CASE STUDY WOULD REVEAL SPECIFIC PATTERNS OF INTERACTION. THESE COULD THEN BE USED FOR IDENTIFYING MOST OF THE FACTORS…

The recently identified Illinois state standards associated with the newly designated technology specialist (TS) endorsement required graduate faculty to explore the issues associated with addressing those standards and ensuring curriculum alignment. Endorsement standards require a balance between knowledge and skills that can be used as a…

A project was conducted in Illinois to determine what basic skills were needed in vocational education and how they should be taught. A multiple methods approach incorporating interviews, observations, surveys, and document analysis was employed to obtain data from the literature, and from practitioners, administrators, and experts in the fields…

The first sections of this Master Plan outline the history of the Illinois Public Community College System and its mission and scope. The next section deals with enrollment projections in terms of the changes in the state's population, and implications for enrollments; the decreasing college-going rate of high school graduates; increased…

As part of the effort of the Illinois Community College Board to develop and implement statewide and regional planning of occupational programs, input from community college administrators, presidents, and trustees was sought in order that policies, procedures and guidelines for statewide and regional planning could be formulated. Additionally,…

Describes how four Illinois school districts have dealt with declining enrollments and teacher shortages by developing an interactive system using local cable television systems to broadcast courses that are shared between schools. The evaluation of the first two years of programing has been encouraging. (MD)

To be effective, curriculum change must be understood and accepted by the teachers who will ultimately implement it. The Downers Grove experience in developing an Individually Guided Education concept offers a model for involving instructional personnel in curriculum development. (Editor)

In fiscal year 1989, the Illinois community colleges conducted the first review of the general education component of their baccalaureate/transfer degree programs. This review, to be performed every 5 years, involved an extensive and diverse range of activities, and many colleges had difficulty completing the first review in a year's time. As a…

Traces the development of curricular diversity in community colleges and reviews the control and coordinating functions of curriculum governance in the community college systems of several states. Highlights the system of curriculum administration in Illinois, examining state-level and local processes. Contrasts formal definitions and…

Describes a plan of action developed at an Illinois high school that involved staff in communicating needed improvement in curricular programs. (MD)

The proceedings of the 1972 Illinois Junior College Conference are presented. Sessions on the following topics are summarized: (1) Illinois Junior College Faculty Association Welfare Committee; (2) two meetings of the Junior College Directors of Learning Resource Centers--on establishing criteria for evaluating program priorities and on statewide…

Institutional distinctiveness is an important consideration in establishing state priorities, enhancing quality, and improving productivity in Illinois public universities. This report compares and contrasts Illinois' 12 public universities on 24 characteristics to illustrate the diversity among these schools. The characteristics are arrayed in…