Common Ground High School in New Haven, Connecticut, has made student voice and leadership not only a philosophy, but a universal principle. The single-site charter school sits on 20 acres of land and houses an urban farm that produces more than 10,000 pounds of local food each year. Students are encouraged to become local changemakers by serving…

As we work to educate our children in effective ways, supporting their efforts to make a positive difference reaps benefits for both students and society.

Acknowledging the general difficulty of new e-learning pedagogical approaches in achieving wide acceptance and use, the study described in this article examines a class of MBA students' adoption of a proposed online interactive learning environment. To this end, a web-based, case-based constructivist learning environment was developed, embedding…

The series of studies in this monograph examined the adoption of model-based instruction (MBI) as an innovative approach to teaching physical education. This innovation must be learned and used by preservice teachers, and then ultimately accepted by pupils in schools where student teachers plan for and implement MBI. Decisions by student teachers…

The list of recognized creators is constantly changing with the passage of time. An up-to-date list of recognized Chinese creators emerges from a survey of a large sample of Chinese students in various places in China. To understand the sustainability of the creators' fame, this study examines how the creators' personal characteristics affect…

To begin meeting the challenges of change and dissent, the counseling profession will have to develop theories and practices that get to the roots of the social situations that create difficulties for individuals rather than treating individuals who are defined as social troublemakers. (Author)

The events of the five years 1967-1971 stimulated some of the best thinking the student council movement had seen to that time. This anthology is an attempt to capture some of that thinking. Important themes emerge from these articles: (1) a humanistic concern for the people student councils are meant to serve, (2) the reform movement, and (3)…

Purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of the change-agent concept in the public school setting of Walla Walla, Washington. (Authors/CB)

Observations about academic reform movements against a background of Erich Fromm's philosophies on human relationships and behavior. (Editor)

This paper uses diffusion of innovation theory as a framework for studying why United States college students who attend study abroad information sessions fail to take advantage of such educational opportunities. Surveys were administered to two groups of undergraduate students--those who studied abroad and those who did not. Students ranked their…

THIS PAPER RECORDS THE EXPERIENCE OF SOME EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS, REVIEWS THEIR OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR OWN EXPERIENCES, AND DISCUSSES THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT FOR INNOVATION. THE TIME OF THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT AS AN EDUCATIONAL INNOVATOR HAS PASSED AS A RESULT OF THREE MAJOR FACTORS DIFFERENTIATING PRESENT ACADEMIC CONDITIONS…

This document reports the results of The Oregon Mathematics Teachers of Middle School (TOMTOMS) project focused on improving the curriculum and the teaching of mathematics in middle school in support of recent calls for mathematics education reform. Twenty seventh-grade teachers, representing the geographic regions in Oregon, were chosen from a…