Extended learning opportunities have emerged as a useful way to rethink how schools are organized and funded. That includes reconsidering who teaches and how they go about their work. That effort should be guided by four key policy considerations and goals: 1. Reengineer the role of teacher. 2. Rethink K-12, higher education, and community-based…

Examines the fate of 25 innovative instructional programs implemented in 1971-73 as a result of state legislation. Arrives at seven conclusions about why some programs (seven) were still in existence eight years later and why others were not. (IRT)

A company of professional actors perform scenes from history, act in plays, and do improvisations and poetry readings in university classrooms. Describes Illinois State University's unique program for enlivening the humanities. (Author/JF)

Argues that we should be more tolerant of the educational innovator, that innovation, particularly in these times of diminishing resources and back-to-basics, must be preserved. (Author/IRT)

The "Ingrowns" are traditional doctoral programs, the "Newcomers" are nontraditional doctoral programs. (IRT)

The alternatives suggested here are options that school districts could consider without committing additional resources and without extensive preplanning. They suggest a variety of approaches to introducing greater creativity and flexibility in a school system. (Author)

Discusses the British experiment with use of multimedia for instruction. (JF)

Perhaps what is needed for the entire educational system is to find and utilize a special group of people to operate nontraditionally at all levels within that system. Perhaps that group of people should have a special name -- what about teachers? (Author)

Discusses need for development of higher education study programs that give due recognition to America's extensive black sub-culture and are designed to help Negro Americans realize their legitimate social goals of recognition and achievement. (JK)

Outlines the concepts in and the implications for educators of the Club of Rome's new study, "No Limits to Learning: Bridging the Human Gap," which asserts that the human learning system lies at the heart of the world's troubles and at the heart of the answer to those troubles. (Author/IRT)

Through the use of such support services as interpreting, note-taking, and tutors, deaf college students at California State University at Northridge compete with 25,000 hearing peers in an urban, liberal arts university setting. (Author)

If teacher education programs are to have an effect on the structure of the schools their graduates teach in, they are going to have to reorient themselves to focus on the modification of organizational factors rather than focusing solely on the professional development of school personnel. (Author/IRT)

Characterizes the University of Massachusetts School of Education Program as dynamic and creative and as offering a quality program based on change and innovation. (Author/DW)