One important aim of social science research is to provide unbiased information that can help guide public policies. However, social science is often construed as politics by other means. Nowhere is the polarized nature of social science research more visible than in the heated debate over charter schools. In "Spin Cycle", noted political…

The programs of the two back-to-basics schools in Jefferson County, Kentucky, are briefly described in this speech. The two schools, one high school and one elementary school, are alternative programs. The emphasis is on traditional curriculum, patriotism, respect, competition, and citizenship. Recitation, drill, and homework, along with…

Research supported through the Cooperative Research Program of the U.S. Office of Education.

Provides background to the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education seminar held in February 1985. The problem, according to the author, is how to get status for adult nonformal education when status traditionally is awarded by the universities that promote formal education. (CH)

A study, focusing on teachers from five elementary schools in a single school district, defined teacher attitudes, single teacher practices, multiteacher practices, individual student practices, and small-group practices for both traditional and open instructional space facilities. (Author/MLF)

Describes classroom progression from traditional to transitional to open. (ST)

Presents a quick overview of British Educational System based upon the author's year of experience in a British Grammar School under Teacher Exchange Program. Significant points to note are: student selection procedures for universities, examination system, and physics teaching. (PS)

Describes the Teacher Drop-Out Center, an agency that helps innovative administrators find like-minded teachers, inside and outside the system. (Author)

Discusses a study that examined the provision of handicapped children in ordinary schools and identified factors which lead to successful integration. Examined facility needs, staffing, curriculum, practicalities, the social dimension, and parents. (Author/JOW)

Most research on charter schools, and the most intense public debate over their desirability, has focused on the impact of these new schools on the students who attend them. But charter proponents also hope that the threat of students' leaving will spur traditional schools to higher levels of achievement. In the long run, such system-wide…

Distance education systems are being used in along with the traditional education systems in order to respond to the demand for higher education. Technological advancements, interactive learning possibilities are forcing the traditional universities to make more use of the distance education systems and technologies. Most of the traditional…

The price of teacher attrition is high, not only financially, but also in terms of human and institutional costs. The inability to retain beginning teachers contributes significantly to teacher shortages. This study investigates the effect of the preparation program on teacher attrition. Attrition rates of elementary teacher graduates from two…

Perhaps what is needed for the entire educational system is to find and utilize a special group of people to operate nontraditionally at all levels within that system. Perhaps that group of people should have a special name -- what about teachers? (Author)

Permanent education, with its functional requirements and its own development, is beginning to be an agent of radical change in the whole traditional educational system. In the future, the schooling of youth will be more and more devoted to acquisition of methods of thought, adaptive attitudes, critical reactions and disciplines which teach how to…