About "The Changing Classroom"
This web site represents the work of students in CyberJournalism, a seminar held in Winter 1998 at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. The theme the class chose to examine is education reform, a topic of great interest and growing importance in Oregon as well as the rest of the nation.
Oregon's role
The state of Oregon has long had a national reputation for innovation in its schools, and its transformation of K-12 education places the state in the forefront of reform efforts nationally. Plans set in motion by the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century are wide-ranging, complex, and, in some ways, little understood. Reform efforts focus on elementary and secondary schools, but their impact will be felt in higher education and the world of work beyond the classroom.School change is occurring in other ways as well, and this web site also examines one such innovation--a "Cyberschool" based in Eugene that delivers courses anywhere via the World Wide Web.
The goals of the class in developing this site were threefold:
- to use the opportunities afforded by the web to explain school change
- to interview people involved in transformation efforts and report on a variety of issues raised by school reform plans
- to point readers to the best additional information available online.
We hope you find this site useful, and we welcome your suggestions and reactions.
-John Russial, assistant professor
Members
of the class
ReportingKara Barrett
Andrew Blazier
Lisa Hollingsworth
John Monahan
Kristina Rudinskas
Jim Seckler
Michelle Webster
Design and Graphics
Sally Abu-Bakar
Morten Bustrup
Brian Deka
Matt Garton
Hak-Sun Kim
Ryan Frank
Shelley Jelinek
Front page art by Matt "The Kid" Garton
Other art and Java scripting by Morten Bustrup