None of the pressures from alumni, citizenry, or students is sufficient to maintain an activity (big-time football) which contradicts the aims of a university unless there is solid support from within the ivied walls. Athletics are under faculty and administrator control. (Author/EA)

Because past educational reform movements were stimulated by events not directly related to schools, the movements' leaders have lacked dependable information about schools' actual effectiveness. This article faults past commissions for their omissions and impractical solutions. Real school improvement happens when school staff and parents…

Examines the background and the action and potential effects of the Supreme Court's June 1984 decision that prohibits the National Collegiate Athletic Association from controlling college football television rights. (MCG)

Outlines a fictitious but ideal school in which staff work cooperatively and are encouraged to develop their talents. (MD)

Since both having the teacher visit the students' homes and having the parents visit the schools for conferences poses problems, the telephone is suggested as a relatively unexploited resource for solving the parent/teacher conference dilemma. (Author/JN)

Describes a program in which a resource center in a college of education offers services to public schools in the areas of curriculum development and evaluation, advisory services for public school administrators, psychological services, and innovative field-based approaches to in-service education. (IRT)

Points out that the bridge between theory and practice in teacher education has not yet been built and offers suggestions for how we should go about building it. (IRT)

School districts such as Dade County, Florida; New York City; Petaluma, California; Hammond, Indiana; and Boston have restructured their schools and are using some form of win/win bargaining to achieve this goal. If the schools, unions, the teaching profession, and collective bargaining can continue to evolve together, restructuring could become a…

In 1985, Indiana University established the Cummins Engine Foundation Writing Project, a writing-across-the-curriculum project for nine school corporations in the Columbus (Indiana) area. This article presents 14 conclusions and observations drawn by seminar directors after the project's first three years. Includes a bibliography of 20 books. (MLH)

Insists that too many marginal students are wrongly classified and segregated from regular education programs. Special education classification programs have many problems, such as lack of validity and reliability, invidious causes, and inescapable isolation. Vast sums are spent without providing institutional benefits to children. Includes 17…

Key school reform dimensions require new forms of labor/management collaboration exemplified by Teacher Union Reform Network (TURN) affiliates. TURN promotes new union models to build and sustain high-achieving schools through improving instructional quality. Three subcommittees tackle professional development, preservice education issues, and…

The present structure must be modified so that athletics will again be self-initiated, fun-oriented, and player-controlled, with equal opportunities for girls and women. (Editors)

The pursuit of knowledge should include collegial relationships between faculty and students that allow collaboration in the process of inquiry. A graduate student laments how little of this happens in graduate school. (MD)

Emphasizes the organization, governance, and decision-making structures in teacher training and the relationship between colleges and the schools. (IRT)