In Norway, 32 secondary and postsecondary institutions serve as regional centers for continuing education and inservice training for business/industry. Information/communications technology solutions are focused on the needs of participants, not simply on transferring old methods to Internet delivery mechanisms. (SK)

Most current major educational reforms call for extensive, meaningful teacher collaboration. Teachers who have worked together see substantial improvements in student achievement, behavior, and attitude. For teachers, collegiality breaks the isolation of the classroom and brings career rewards and daily satisfactions. Schools benefit for a number…

Plans for building a lower secondary school, the Kuokkala project, in Jyvaskyla, Finland, are described in this paper. The first part describes the background of the project, an experimental school developed in conjunction with the school head and university researchers. The second part discusses ways in which the modern school ensures students'…

Vocational educators have been making notable efforts to serve students with disabilities for many years. For more than 20 years, federal legislation has sought to facilitate such efforts by requiring that a portion of federal funding for vocational education be set aside to serve handicapped students. Disabled students can be educated either by…

Mentor, a law-related program sponsored by the Federal Bar Council, New York Alliance for the Public Schools and the New York City Public Schools, completed its second year of operation in 1983-84. This evaluation report focuses on the 1983-84 program expansion implemented in spring 1983. Mentor consists of a series of one-day activity sessions…

Dr. Larry W. Hughes and Dr. C. M. Achilles of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, conducted a national survey for the Office of Education on educational cooperatives--studying and reporting on the nature and kind of cooperative endeavors, their organization, governance, financial arrangements, services, and personnel. Their study focused upon…

Raising academic requirements for admission to higher education brings about higher academic standards in secondary schools. Describes the relationship between a California high school curriculum and student course selections on one hand and university admission requirements on the other. (MD)

Reports briefly on the conclusions of work groups held during a 1980 educational conference which discussed the role of West Germany in international cultural relations. The following topics were discussed: foreign language education and teaching; cultural export and exchange; international cooperation between scientists; and international…

The English study monitored the first stages of an integration plan involving nine handicapped 12-year-old boys. The study pointed out the need for coordination between the special school and the special unit of the mainstreamed school and for an adequate curriculum for the students at the mainstreamed school. (PHR)

Describes the "Museum in the Schools" program of Cornell University's Johnson Art Museum. To encourage museum use by secondary school students and teachers, workshops are designed and presented by the museum's team, based on the specifications of the classroom teacher. This article focuses on a workshop in drawing and line. (Author/SJL)

The promises made in the name of secondary education today will not be kept until the delivery system of those promises--the high schools--are reformed to act as coordinating units, facilitating the movement of people to where learning experiences are available. (MB)

This paper describes the process of curriculum differentiation for special needs students at a comprehensive secondary school in Great Britain. The differentiation process involved the reorganization of special needs provision, collaborative work between the learning development department and content areas, and assessment of special learning…

A science teacher at an Alaska correspondence school discusses the educational uses of electronic mail (enhancing the relationship between teacher and distant student, encouraging early computer literacy and reflective communication skills, and promoting interschool collaboration) and describes a telecommunications-based science project involving…

Institutional barriers that hinder the collaborative process must be removed for an integrated program such as tech prep to work. A foundation for program development is laid if teachers are made aware of the benefits of integration. (SK)

Discusses the need for vocational educators to work with English-as-a-second-language teachers to contribute to the educational growth of students with limited English proficiency. (JOW)