Describes a collaborative Purdue University and Twin Lakes School Corporation (Indiana) project to specify and demonstrate research-based instructional models facilitating the development of students' higher thinking skills. The project has developed a special site where student teachers can observe and practice teaching these skills. Includes 10…

Concern over communication between schools and colleges spurred three organizations to sponsor a national conference to examine school/college relationships. (MD)

Schools across the country are pressured to reform by federal and state mandates. Because resistance is a major factor in reform failure, it is crucial for principals to discover why teachers resist change. This article explores the leadership and organizational change literature regarding some common barriers to change. Research-based strategies…

Reports the results of a study examining the goal-setting process within the School Improvement Model, which evaluates relations between school goals and personal goals and between school goals and inservice interests. (MD)

Chairman presents highlights of several of the Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education's positions, including teacher training, rank-in-class, the Carnegie Unit, and alternatives. (GB)

This article describes an effort by principals and university researchers to create student co-research groups at several high schools. The authors describe the student co-research team concept, how it provides principals with ways to actively engage students in ongoing school-reform efforts, and how it assists them in gathering and analyzing data…

Feeling angry and abandoned over losing a cooperative training center, South Carolina high school educators began a series of "what next?" conversations. Following two information-sharing conferences, 17 high schools and the University of South Carolina formed a school-university partnership called the South Carolina High School Renewal…

Despite recent criticisms, U.S. society is getting a good value for its education dollar. High schools are beset by college influences on the curriculum; special education requirements; overemphasis on student activities; unreasonable international comparisons; the influences of TV, teenage employment, and pathological behaviors; and the…

The author discusses a project that affords high school principals an opportunity to create collaborative relationships between members of their school communities and college-based teacher education programs. In its 13 years, this collaboration has been shown to increase student and teacher engagement: Students gain perspective on what goes into…

A commission established by Ohio to reduce the number of first-year college students requiring remedial courses recommended updating and standardizing the college preparatory curriculum, improving teacher education, and enhancing communication between students, parents, and educators at all levels. These recommendations, responses to them, and…