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Katz, Michael B. – 2001
This reissue of the seminal 1968 study of the origins of mass popular education in 19th-century Massachusetts is considered one of the first radical revisionist interpretations of U.S. educational history. This new edition retains the original text but includes a new introduction by the author. The study looks at the relation between reformer…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy
Download full textHilborn, Robert C., Ed.; Howes, Ruth H., Ed.; Krane, Kenneth S., Ed. – American Association of Physics Teachers (NJ1), 2003
Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics (SPIN-UP) set out to answer an intriguing question: Why, in the 1990s, did some physics departments increase the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in physics or maintain a number much higher than the national average for their type of institution? During that decade, the number of…
Descriptors: Physics, College Science, College Programs, Science Education
Learning, 1982
Reports are given on the use of computers in elementary and secondary schools in five states. An analysis of the reports discusses various educational trends and implications evolving from computer use, including misapplied technology and the proper amount of learning and teaching via computers. (CJ)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Programs, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedRoach, Virginia; Caruso, Michael G. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1997
Examines the intersection of policy and practice in the areas of systemic reform and special education. Provides examples of statewide system reform efforts in Kentucky, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Vermont, as well as examples of how children with disabilities are included in the total reform efforts. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedDaly, John L. – Journal of Geography, 1990
Describes an approach used by the Wayland, Massachusetts, middle school to organizing students into instructional teams. Explains that each instructional team is organized into a "house" named after a significant individual around whom the curriculum and theme for field trips is designed. Highlights the Rachel Carson House activities of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Experiential Learning, Field Trips, Geography Instruction
Havelock, Ronald G. – 1976
This report describes a study of one-year educational innovation projects funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Focus of the study was not on the content of the projects but on how they were conducted, with particular emphasis on the role of the project directors. Data for the study were gathered through…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, Demonstration Programs
Sullivan, John Joseph – 1973
The study examines selected characteristics of the innovator, the innovation, and the school system as related to attempts at educational innovation through ESEA Title III proposals in 1966 in Massachusetts. An attempt is made to identify those characteristics, associated with successful institutionalization, in the hope of indicating implications…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies, Doctoral Dissertations
Dignan, Patricia J.; Schelkun, Ruth – 1988
Educators concerned with effectiveness outcomes have become increasingly involved with participative organizational and teaching practices designed to improve school climate. Since schools have traditionally emphasized "top down" management and decision-making procedures, few school districts have the experience or expertise to develop…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Innovation, Interpersonal Competence
Merrimack Education Center, Chelmsford, MA. – 1977
This report, the second of three prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Education, focuses on a formative evaluation which identifies descrepancies between innovative Title IV-C educational programs as planned and as the programs operated. Contents are organized in five main chapters each of which represents a different perspective but all…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Diffusion, Educational Innovation, Educational Programs
Peer reviewedSeldin, Clement A.; Maloy, Robert W. – Journal of Education, 1979
Describes an innovative secondary schools project which did not initially succeed, despite a collaborative approach, shared decision making, local control, and a decentralized structure. Contends that preexisting expectations and assumptions about change, shared by participants, can inhibit a progressive, elaborately preplanned change model.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Decentralization, Decision Making
Guenther, William – Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2003
Mass Insight Corp, a public policy and communications firm that organizes public-private initiatives to support economic growth in Massachusetts, recently issued a new report, titled "An Economy at Risk," making the case for a Massachusetts economic development strategy organized around higher education and science and technology.…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Innovation, Public Policy
Widmer, Jeanne Maguire – 1975
This study describes models of diffusion that combine the efforts of a State agency with the efforts of local school systems to effect change and examines the most recent research on innovation adoption. It provides a paradigm that describes the following elements: (1) the optimum installation process for an innovation, (2) the kinds of school…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Diffusion, Educational Change
Lydiard, Beverly, Ed.; Simon, Beverly Silver, Ed. – 1974
Media projects in Massachusetts schools are described in a special issue of a Massachusetts Department of Education periodical. Media programs are classified under filmmaking and film study; mass media; television/video; selected media centers and special resources using media. In addition, the guide lists and describes museums, theaters, learning…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Communications, Directories, Educational Innovation
Direct linkSchmidt, Steffen – Journal of Political Science Education, 2005
Although Terminal C at Logan airport does not look like a classroom, for about fifty minutes on this author's way back from Boston it was for him. Like many public spaces, Logan now has a very robust Wi-Fi wireless network and this enabled him to take advantage of a departure delay to "teach" his class. In 1970 when the author started…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Distance Education, Air Transportation, Educational Technology
ASBELL, BERNARD – 1967
IN RECENT EFFORTS OF THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AND ADAPTATION OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE, VISIBILITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO COMMUNITIES WHICH HAVE INTRODUCED NEW CURRICULUMS, TEACHING METHODS, AND INSTITUTIONAL PATTERNS. FIVE LOCALLY-INITIATED PROGRAMS WHICH HAVE ATTEMPTED TO PROVIDE A FLEXIBILITY OF THE…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Allied Health Occupations, Case Studies, Educational Change
