Outlines how the Writing Response Groups function. This is a cooperative learning atmosphere where trained student peers respond to other students' writing with the Praise-Question-Polish technique. Includes references. (MD)

A school-business partnership in Indianapolis (Indiana) has had significant results in raising student test scores, increasing attendance and reducing tardiness, and meeting schools' curriculum objectives. (Author/MLF)

Curriculum over the last 20 years has systematically been divorced from subject matter. Four models are described that exemplify satisfying and successful working relationships between the scholarly community and curriculum planners. (Author/MLF)

A work-study team is the core of a school-university collaboration benefiting everyone involved. (Author)

Beset by bitter budget and teacher-salary disputes, a northern New Hampshire school district engaged citizens in thoughtful dialogs about children's learning by adopting an educational town-meeting format. Success hinged on courageous leadership; educators' listening attitude; a safe, respectful debating environment; teacher and union…

Aurora (Colorado) Public Schools staff found that empowering students meant teaching students what enhances and what impedes learning; helping them recognize and develop their own personal learning strengths; teaching them specific thinking and learning strategies; and passing on learning responsibility to them. The key is willingness to share…

Describes the "Across the Lines" project involving an interchange between students and teachers of two racially isolated schools in the Hartford (Connecticut) area. A racial mix of 50/50 was achieved through planned science museum visits, randomly paired pen pals, and an MCI electronic mail connection between schools. (MLH)

Describes the development of reciprocal teaching--an instructional procedure originally designed to improve poor readers' text comprehension--and its application in Springfield, Illinois, schools. Research is clustered into three types of studies: effectiveness, efficiency, and feasibility. Program implementation, evaluation, and success factors…

Only a cooperative approach to teacher growth can effectively satisfy the compelling need to retrain and upgrade existing personnel. (Author)

The collaborative school provides a climate and a structure that encourage teachers to work together with the principal and other administrators toward school improvement and professional growth. (Author)

Cooperative learning focuses group activity on preparing all members to succeed on individual assessments. Research findings show significantly greater achievement for the cooperatively taught class. Describes the elements of two comprehensive cooperative methods and proposes a model of a cooperative elementary school. (MLF)

A training model for prospective teachers of cooperative learning involves teachers creating a cooperative classroom for themselves in a workshop setting. The model combines experience, perception, cognition, and behavior. (MLF)

Elements included in a recent publication of the College Board's Educational EQuality Project (establarehed in 1980) that defines what students need to know and do to succeed in college, "Academic Preparation for College" or the "Green Book," is currently being implemented in 13 model high school-college collaboratives across…

Children experiencing the trauma of divorce often feel alone and ashamed. This article describes a Virginia elementary principal's provision of school support groups to give children a chance to acknowledge their problems and discuss their feelings. The project was developed in cooperation with a community family services agency. (MLH)

The conventional U.S. picture traces the Cold War to Soviet violation of wartime agreements, while the U.S.S.R. defends its actions as responses to American violations and foreign adventurism. An understanding of how ideology is shaped by national self-interest will help students see beyond propaganda and myth in interpreting past and current…