An excerpt from Forward Plan for Career Education: Research and Development,'' prepared by the Career Education Development Task Force, National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, April 1973. (Author/JM)

Seven qualitative factors discussed as key possibilities for those crucial variables that shape and determine a school's effectiveness. The factors are (1) objectives, (2) impact of arrangement of resources and activities in learning outcomes, (3) impact of expectations on learning outcomes, (4) impact of interaction patterns on learning outcomes,…

Drawing on research literature concerning administrative support of educational change and on findings from two research projects, the author defines administrative support to include promoting project interests through verbal statements, providing clarity and steadiness to participants, definding project goals and activities, and giving projects…

Discusses how college administrators can begin to restructure their institutions so that they spend less as the students learn more. Looks at redefining academic quality, enhancing faculty productivity and student learning, student learning and the restructuring of faculty roles, and restructuring implications for academic processes and…

Analysis of information technology's role in higher education looks at pressures to use technology, the slow pace of adoption, current directions in technological advancement, and its impact on institutional policy and resource requirements. Its impact on teaching and learning without a new paradigm for instruction is seen as limited. (MSE)

Australian research funding, with increased emphasis on social and community relevance, is criticized inappropriately by both traditional and radical segments of the humanities and social sciences. Higher standards of research planning may promote more equitable and rational funding, and there is still room for humanities research in the new…

Schools and school systems will improve their chances of making a good choice of school reform program if they determine: (1) the program's goals and objectives; (2) the program's research base; and (3) the resources, in terms of money and human effort, required to make the program work. (SLD)

Reviews four publications comprising a vivid testimony to current dilemmas and challenges facing reconstruction of Palestinian education. Critical policy issues have arisen concerning the broader meanings attached to educational resources and their relation to economic and civil opportunities. National-collective issues have eclipsed equity and…

During the last few decades, the concept of equivalence has assumed an increasingly important role in Swedish educational policy, and at the same time the actual meaning of equivalence has been given different authoritative interpretations. The shift in significance which the concept has undergone seems to be not only an aspect of the social power…

School reconstitution, the process of restaffing schools as a mechanism for school improvement, has become an increasingly popular component of education accountability systems across the country. This paper provides an analysis of the impact of one district-sponsored school reconstitution reform on the capacity of schools for improvement. We…

For those concerned with school improvement, resource-oriented mechanisms are a critical facet of efforts to transform and restructure daily operations. Resource-oriented organizational mechanisms focus specifically on ensuring the appropriate use of existing resources and enhancing efforts to address barriers to student learning. This report…

The emergence of accelerated learning as a strategy to simultaneously motivate and challenge secondary students offers a prime example of reform driven by the need to better align schools and colleges with economic and social realities. Accelerated learning is a cluster of programs, such as Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate,…

The requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) have presented special challenges and opportunities for rural schools (Reeves, 2003). Researchers have suggested that one way rural schools may be able to overcome these challenges is through an increase in the level of technology integration in their school (Collins & Dewees,…

In this article, the authors present Edwin Diaz, superintendent of California's Gilroy Unified School District and discuss the common challenges and strategies among those education leaders who take on--and succeed at--the role of change agent and reformer. When Edwin Diaz became superintendent of California's Gilroy Unified School District in…

African teachers in general and South Africans in particular face tremendous challenges, several of which are curriculum related. These challenges manifest themselves at various levels and in various areas, that is, from national level to within the classroom. There are various role players who may make a contribution towards overcoming these…