This article reports educational changes evidenced in a selected group of innovative Catholic schools. A study of these schools compared their educational practices with those advocated by the NASSP Model Schools Project. The findings are pertinent to any school contemplating change. (Editor)

Describes a professional development system focusing on seven specific instructional strategies that was developed and implemented at an inner-city high school in San Diego, California. Reports improvement in student achievement. (PKP)

Article shows a logical outline of problem areas in alternative schools and the strategy for dealing with them as demonstrated by one school district. (Editor)

It is Haworth's hope that by 1980 the American public high school will provide many more options for its students in the academic, social, instructional, and human climates where most of their waking time is spent. The survey results presented here indicate that his hope may become a reality. (Editor/RK)

Virginia's high schools are restructuring the state school system. Using the 4 x 4 schedule, four high schools are offering all students up to a year of postsecondary study beyond the full high school program. Postsecondary scholarships will make this world-class education available to all well-disciplined students who attend regularly and learn…

The principal of a new high school in New York City, which is to serve as a model for innovative practices, describes how his school's program is attempting to establish an educational environment that will meet the anticipated needs of all students. (Editor)

Every year, a Vermont high school teacher uses laws of physics to teach students how to design, field test, and calibrate a weapon that fires tennis balls to 100-yard distances. This article explains how the "physics war" grew to accommodate the new Vermont curriculum standards at various organizational levels. (22 references) (MLH)

Describes development of a Multiple Intelligences Theory Application (MITA) model used in high school classrooms to address major content, collaboration, and criteria concerns. The model invites parents to collaborate, from curriculum planning stages to the end stages of learning. The model also provides for student participation and alternative…

Examines why an innovative math curriculum promoted by the math department chair was ultimately rejected by teachers. By the second year, faculty ill will, mistrust, and resentment had begun to undermine the math department's ability to function. Wider participation in the adoption effort was needed. (Contains 16 references.) (MLH)