Three years ago, a coalition of three Washington State districts, Peninsula, Tacoma, and Issaquah, began cooperating to help one another implement programs and policies fostering a service ethic. This article describes each district's progress at implementing its Project Service Leadership program. (MLH)

Despite commission reports and journal articles advocating mastery learning and effective instruction, grassroots influence is conspicuously missing from the current reform movement. Creative teachers continue to leave the profession, and top students refuse to enter it. Teachers remain essentially powerless, while open education enthusiasts await…

Parent participation in elementary school classrooms provides teachers with a valuable and varied resource, but also requires deeper teacher involvement in students' private lives and skill in managing time. The growth of a parent participation program in Salt Lake City, Utah, proves such programs can succeed. (PGD)

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)

This article discusses a recently developed teacher education program that has more than 20 alternative programs from which students can choose. (Author/DN)

Several potential innovations in teacher preparation are suggested as means for improving the spirit and process" of education. (JH)

Describes how Wayland (Massachusetts) High School implemented the Trump Plan for team teaching in the early 1960s and how the school gradually abandoned the program because of staff turnover, teacher dissatisfaction, lack of administrative support, and loss of funds. (RW)

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)

Supported by its local school board and unimpeded by innovation-blocking rules and regulations, the Minnesota New Country Charter School launched a nationally recognized program featuring a course-free structure, individualized learning, and an emphasis on technology. This charter school has helped stimulate improvements in the other district…

Second-graders and a new teacher came up with an approach that showed him how much fun reading can be. The students voted on reading privileges; peer pressure maintained discipline; students shared books that their parents had read to them and invited "guest readers" to read with their class. (MLF)

Discusses four complementary interventions required for principals to improve classroom visits: Provide clear, grade-specific curriculum proficiency targets; develop results-oriented, teacher team-planned curriculum units; adopt Japanese lesson study approach to teaching; and use data to improve teaching and learning. (PKP)

Despite ongoing school improvement efforts, there are more factors at work to stabilize schools than to change them. Stabilizing factors pervade school organization, curriculum context, unadventuresome textbooks, teacher isolation, and standardized testing practices. Educational innovation is predicated on change in form, content, and goals and…