Education may seem to some so stable as to be stodgy, but in its basic aspects the change has been deep and constant. (Editor)

Article investigated world-wide efforts to study educational change and implement new ideas into the educational mainstream. (RK)

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Adapted from a longer essay, "Schooling and Education, published in the 1969 edition of "The Great Ideas Today.

Reveals the author's extensive work in educational planning and indicates the complexity, frustrations, and rewards of effecting change in educational practice. (Editor/RK)

Paper presents a model designed to identify factors to be taken into account in effecting educational improvement within the context of schooling. (Author/CB)

The National Network for Educational Renewal is committed to cultivating and connecting all the essential components of a healthy teacher education enterprise: the partner schools (clinical or professional development schools); subject specializations of university arts and sciences departments; and the part of teacher education commonly provided…

The author expresses his agreement with the recommendation that teacher education be upgraded--suggested in the preceding article by Gideonse in the same issue--but sets forth some additional problems to be overcome. (Author/JM)

The central theme of this paper is that countries, at all levels of development, must engage in systematic educational planning leading to the continuing determination and fulfillment of priorities. (Author)

To enculturate the young and help them reason successfully, teachers need appropriate pedagogical and school renewal skills. An interview-based survey disclosed chronic prestige deprivation in the teacher education enterprise, lack of program coherence, theory-practice separation, and stifling bureaucratic regulations. Three promising…

Discusses the need for the development of school-university collaboration in the school reform movement. Describes three successful collaborative projects showing the positive effects gained from such collaborations. Includes a sidebar outlining the essentials for such partnerships and a list of references. (MD)

Improving our schools involves reconstruction of two interacting ecologies--that of the total array of educating institutions and that of the formal system of schooling. There is a need to link teacher education and schools simultaneously in improvement. (IAH)

The ultimate purpose of curriculum planning is to arrange an array of stimuli or opportunities to extend or modify the knowledge, skills, or attitudes of identifiable learners. A curriculum might be defined, then, as a set of intended learnings. Three kinds of decisionmaking realms and three corresponding perspectives for inquiry make up the…

Examines the preservice teacher education role of professional development schools in the context of school-university partnerships. The necessary joining of K-12 and university cultures raises numerous problems, including dealing with cultural clash and schools of education, sustaining leadership and commitment, providing adequate resources,…

This book about the relation of education to society has as its thesis that the proper context for education is a politically and socially democratic one. The first chapter considers what education is and is followed by chapters discussing the relationship of education to democracy, community, schooling, its conditions, and the self. Throughout…