Vassar College (New York) has joined with 10 community colleges to encourage students to transfer to the four-year institution. During the summer, groups of students with high academic potential matriculate in two challenging Vassar classes and live together, coping with academic and social adjustments; a large proportion have transferred. Faculty…

This paper presents preliminary evaluation results of the Comprehensive Teacher Institute (CTI), an experimental, state-funded, five-year teacher preparation program located in a large California urban area. Program features include paid student teaching, two years of beginning teacher support, and recruiting underrepresented minorities. CTI…

A study examined a Scottish council's initiative to mainstream secondary pupils with social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. Classroom observations and teacher interviews at 12 schools indicated that not all departments shared the underlying philosophy, and consultation with community agencies was lacking. Some schools showed progress, but…

Interviews with 16 general special education teachers from the Chicago area were conducted in order to obtain information on their views and experiences with collaboration. An open-ended questionnaire consisting of nine items was utilized during the interviews, which required the participants to give multiple sentence responses to each question.…

Recent calls in the United Kingdom for teachers to adopt evidence-based practices in their classrooms have spawned a number of initiatives whereby individual teachers have been able to bid for funds to research aspects of teaching and learning. These developments have reopened the long-standing debate about the role of higher education tutors in…

Three basic concepts help to describe the author's experience as a school board member whose "real" job is working in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as a part of the academic staff: (1) personnel matters; (2) matters of budget; and (3) university/K-12 collaboration. When school boards decide that the K-12…

This paper describes the elements of university-school collaboration based on several field experiences that university students have had in area schools in connection with education classes often taught in those schools. These elements can serve as a guide to determine a university's or school's readiness for collaboration and identify potential…

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) developed new standards to contribute to reform in teacher education. However, during the first 2 years of implementing the new standards, a large number of colleges were turned down, in part because of a lack of guidelines and conceptual clarity. Significant to these standards is…

The Norwood-University of Southern California Professional Practice School (PPS) project began in 1990-1991. Norwood is an inner-city elementary school in Los Angeles with a student population that is 99 percent Hispanic. Initial efforts to achieve a major project goal--to promote professionalization of teachers--focused on building collegial…

Literacy development was studied among 40 kindergarten students at Lummi Tribal School (Washington). Data consisted of observations during weekly classroom visits throughout the school year, student writing samples, records of "pretend reading," responses to environmental print, and teacher checklists concerning literacy experiences in…

In 1989, in response to declining enrollments and the smallest average school size in the nation, North Dakota legislation provided incentive payments to consortia of four or more school districts that voluntarily collaborated in program planning and implementation. Participating districts were required to vote on a reorganization proposal after 3…

This paper describes the effects of applying research generalizations about inservice teacher education to the practices of a local school district. Generalizations considered include: (1) short- and long-range planning needs; (2) joint planning and participation by administrators and teachers; (3) relationships among inservice and curriculum…

The Fulbright Program in New Zealand funds educational and cultural exchanges with the United States. The program is jointly financed and managed by the two signatory governments. The program is the principal means of academic and technological scholarly exchanges between the two countries. Programs include travel grants to graduate students…

This paper reports on two comprehensive multi-institutional collaborative efforts for school improvement. The two studies demonstrate that collaborative efforts involving multiple agencies and multiple agendas can be successful even when separated by considerable geographical distance. The school systems were concerned with implementing a locally…

This report describes an inservice teacher education program that had special emphasis on multicultural education, initiated by the Teacher Corps at the University of Southern California. The children in the elementary school involved in the project were mainly Spanish-speaking Mexican-Americans. The objectives for the project were to: (1) retrain…