Career pathways (CP) has gained prominence as a strategy to ensure that high school students and displaced workers acquire the college and career readiness skills needed in a fast-changing, globalized economy. In an effort to ensure future success for CP, Stephen F. Hamilton examines the School-to-Work (STW) movement of the 1980s and 1990s and…

This booklet contains four papers on teacher center governance, each written from a different perspective, and each dealing with a different aspect of teacher centers. The first paper discusses issues concerning the governance of teacher centers and deals specifically with (a) collaboration, (b) affiliation, and (c) parity. It is written from the…

This three-part book is part of a series exploring educational policy planning, published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Education Committee. The articles in this collection, resulting from a January 1973 conference, focus on pedagogical and organizational dimensions. The first part of the book presents a…

Asian universities are facing problems of maturing institutions. Having built up their resources, they must now find means of sustaining these resources and of matching their capacities more closely to Asian needs. This process is complicated by the status of many Asian universities as hybrid institutions largely based on Western models. As useful…

The model of a cluster community college is described in this book. The chapters of the book are as follows: 1. Need for a New Organizational Model (Three Structural Anomalies, The Department: A Critical Analysis, The Department: A Status Study); 2. Dynamics for Change (Creative Tensions, Pre-Conditions Required for Planned Change); 3. Some…

This booklet explores the purpose and function of teacher organizations. It discusses teacher organizations as advocates functioning not only to support and protect teacher interests but also to actively seek attainment of improved curriculum and more adequate instructional materials. The booklet documents the thinking of teacher organization…

This book contains papers discussing inter-sectoral educational planning in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Intersectoral educational planning is interpreted as educational policy formation by any country which takes into consideration influences generated by that country's social and…

This monograph deals with the subject of school-community-based teacher education, and states that it is designed to broaden the future teacher's clinical experience and is oriented toward involving more concerned and knowledgeable groups in the community power structure. The monograph is written in the form of 18 questions with detailed answers,…

This book provides an historical assessment of educational cooperation within the British Commonwealth, during both the imperial and postimperial periods. However, the author makes no attempt to examine the educational policies or institutions of the individual territories or countries, except as they have affected the development of international…

This monograph examines some suggested guidelines as they relate to what happens when agents of change, from within and without the schools, collaborate with common goals in mind. The experiences from developing a cooperative model for a university and a school district are summarized in the form of guidelines which can be helpful to others who…

A general paradigm for ideal collaboration between schools and universities is proposed. It is based on a mutually collaborative arrangement between equal partners working together to meet self-interests while solving common problems. It is suggested that reasonable approximations to this ideal have great potential to effect significant…

The social and institutional arrangements in higher education that are likely to favor the development of lifelong education are examined in this book. The focus is the role of higher education in lifelong education, which presupposes a certain basic level of educational attainment from participants. The educational system should become part of an…

This monograph is the result of a conference held on the subject of governance by consortium. The purpose of the conference was to listen, discuss, and react to four position papers prepared by individuals with differing points of view relative to the shared management of teacher education. This monograph begins with a general discussion of…

This paper briefly discusses relevant issues related to teacher education in New York State from a viewpoint consistent with the purpose of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in New York State (AACTE/NYS). The introduction describes the purpose of the AACTE/NYS and states that teacher education should be multiform rather…

This book describes one of the somewhat paradoxical consequences of the development of the education market place--the development of collaborative relations and infrastructures between competing institutions. Fourteen chapters written by participants in collaborative arrangements describe and analyze their responses to the market place and…