As a partner in the Alliance Project with NASSP, Florida State University sought to provide models of administrative excellence by choosing outstanding school leaders to participate in a series of campus seminars and workshops. The program was conceived when financial constraints prohibited adding another full-time professor. The statewide…

Partnerships pose opportunities and challenges for school principals, especially when involving organizations and programs outside education. Collaborative school leaders must be able to appreciate diverse perspectives, understand the big picture, gather and use data for planning, motivate themselves and others, facilitate group efforts, solve…

Author suggests creative partnerships between school and teacher-training institutions to assure better prepared beginning teachers. (Editor)

An Arizona high school's security program includes using teachers as security personnel for campus events, cooperating with juvenile probation officers, and assigning local police to daily patrol and night events. (MJL)

Critiques college admission requirements, pointing out that entrance tests determine what is taught in high school curriculum. For testing to be effective, colleges and high schools must specify the content of college preparatory curriculum. (MD)

Reviews five recent reports noting the complexity of youth problems and demanding cooperation among many agencies and groups. Most reports advocate improving preschool children's welfare and increasing services to young parents. Unresolved issues include comprehensive high schools and a comprehensive youth policy. Omitted were multiculturalism and…

Describes efforts of an Iowa high school principal and a community college tech-prep coordinator to develop a school-to-work program based on working partnerships among the regional education agency, local education agencies, students, parents, community colleges, and businesses. Following development and marketing phases, career maps provided the…

Effective treatment programs for students with serious emotional and behavior disturbances have used several approaches, including continuous assessment and monitoring of progress; systematic, consistent, data-based interventions; provision for practicing new skills; treatment matched to problem; multicomponent treatment; programing for transfer…

The Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota's College of Education is a collaborative effort seeking to meld academic research outcomes with practitioners' real-life needs. The center is involved with core research projects, training and support for research, collaborative research projects,…

Deming's "System of Profound Knowledge" is even more fundamental than his 14-principle system transformation guide and is based on 4 elements: systems theory, statistical variation, a theory of knowledge, and psychology. Management should revamp total system processes so that quality of product is continually improved. Implications for…

An urban Louisiana school system successfully graduated 23 adult dropouts, awarding them real high school diplomas, thanks to the collaborative efforts of various social service agencies, intensive staff development, and sensitivity to students' economic and affective needs. Although schools cannot solve all the personal problems confronting the…

Assessing students' achievement of the new national "Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning" is complex and involves the whole school. Assessment should be tied to content learning; measure students' ability to do and know; test real experiences; consider inquiry's overlapping, recursive nature; involve qualitative measures;…

Full-service community schools may be the most popular examples of public school transformation. The success formula features interventionist, "wrap-around services" for individuals, children, and families. From this model and its lessons arises another model that stresses interdependence, collaboration, and enlightened self-interest.…

Describes the benefit of parent volunteer programs in schools, including maximizing teacher effectiveness and broadening parents' knowledge and appreciation of the educational process. Provides parent and teacher testimony and helpful hints for starting a successful volunteer program. The key is the principal's involvement. (MLH)