This publication describes what approximately 100 groups around the country are doing with regard to food, housing, energy, and health to beat inflation on the neighborhood level. The book is intended as a resource for citizens wishing to take the kind of consumer action that will save them and their neighbors money. Some of the programs featured are saving families hundreds of dollars annually. For instance, several groups are promoting community and backyard gardening. In 1979, backyard and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Community...
This booklet presents a variety of materials concerning the first part of Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes." After a brief introduction to the play, the booklet presents a description of the principal characters in the play, a profile of the playwright, information on funding of the play, an interview with the playwright, descriptions of some of the motifs in the play (including AIDS, Angels, Roy Cohn, and Mormons), a quiz about plays,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Acting, Cultural Enrichment, Drama, Higher...
More than 200 projects and programs, representative of current environmental education projects and programs in the United States, are described in this directory. They cover the gamut of operation and orientation from financially well supported projects to "shoestring" operations conducted by one person in his spare time; from classical nature study to modern urban studies. Information accompanying each entry outlines the following: project title, director's name and address,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Directories, Elementary Schools, Environmental Education, Program Descriptions,...
The Project on Student Values was a curriculum development effort in value education. The Project was intended to develop innovative and demonstrative programs and materials for enabling teachers and schools to work with values in the classroom. Results of the Project include: (1) development of numerous strategies and materials for assisting students in clarifying their individual value systems; (2) involvement of many educators in experiences to help them more effectively use the new ideas...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Instructional Materials, Moral Values, Program Descriptions,...
The document contains information on adult education in India, consisting mainly of a collection of previously published articles from professional journals and other related communications focusing on: input factors, nonformal education, voluntary organizations, literacy, community development, urban education, worker education, Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, and adult education organizations. (EA)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Anthologies, Communications Satellites, Community...
This eight-part book contains 69 articles which address topics related to helping students become effective thinkers. The articles are organized under these categories: (1) the need to teach students to think; (2) creating school conditions for thinking; (3) what is thinking? deciding on definitions; (4) a curriculum for thinking; (5) thinking pervades the curriculum; (6) teaching for thinking; (7) teaching strategies; and (8) assessing growth in thinking abilities. The book lists other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Critical...
This directory of allied health programs in junior colleges was compiled to provide a comprehensive source of allied health training programs in two-year colleges and to provide data on which to establish national, regional, State, and local priorities for health manpower education. It may also serve as a supplementary reference for guidance counselors and for professional organizations. Information was obtained from a questionnaire sent to all the institutions (1,038) listed in the "1970...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Directories, Health...
This anthology is a compilation of 59 articles that includes items previously published in the "Journal of Experiential Education" and presentations given at conventions of the Association for Experiential Education. Based on John Dewey's belief that "all genuine education comes through experience," this book aims to inform educators, administrators, and researchers in schools and institutions of higher education as they seek to put experiential education into practice....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Educational...
This concise, easily understood manual of information and resources concerning the migrant education program is intended to encourage more effective use of the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS). The first section is written to familiarize non-migrant funded personnel with MSRTS health and education records. The section includes definitions of terms, national goals for migrant education, and line-by-line explanations of information provided on MSRTS forms. The second section, on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary...
This volume of proceedings of the 1990 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) provides a record of the state-of-the-art in the use of computing in a variety of educational settings. Special sessions, panels, projects, 153 abstracts, and 44 papers are reported here on subjects including: elementary and secondary educational software, higher education applications, multimedia programs, hypermedia, ethics, computer education administration, interactive video, computer-assisted...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks,...
The English Language Institute at Gallaudet University participated in the Electronic Networks for Instruction (ENFI) Project in 1989. The purpose of this paper is to do a literature review of the ENFI Project within the scope of Gallaudet University and to contribute content that is specific to the English Language Institute. The research design is based on two interviews conducted in November 2011 with instructors at the English Language Institute. The discussion includes a comparison of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Deafness, College Instruction, College Students, Special Needs Students, Interviews,...
In efforts at improving the quality of education and at justifying expenditures for compensatory education and school desegregation, we are increasingly dependent upon the data of evaluative research. Yet the data from many of these evaluation efforts conducted over the past 12 years are confused and inconclusive. In an effort at gaining a better understanding of some of these programs, this project was directed at describing selected programs thought to be exemplary of quality, progress,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Desegregation Methods, Educational Assessment,...
This collection of program descriptions consists of case studies of 47 programs that contain promising approaches to sex-fair vocational education. The case studies (which represent programs in 39 states and the District of Columbia) describe programs that address the educational and job-skill training needs of such groups as displaced homemakers, pregnant teenagers and teenage parents, handicapped persons, minority women and men, vocational educators, administrators, and women and men...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Disabilities, Displaced Homemakers, Educational Needs, Educational...
This directory of selected early childhood programs sponsored by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) includes project grants in the following program categories administered by the Office of Special Education Programs: the Division of Innovation and Development (DID), the Division of Personnel Preparation (DPP), and Early Education Program for Children with Disabilities (EEPCD). The EEPCD projects described include demonstration projects, information management...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention,...
This document describes innovative programs in education for various professions including law, health services, social work, teaching, agriculture-related professions, architecture, business, and engineering. Programs of health services are further divided into those for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and dentists. Information is provided concerning program title, location, sponsors, funding, size, contact personnel, objectives, and program description. A framework for examining...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Innovation, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Legal Education,...
This monograph is intended to provide English teachers, department heads, and administrators in two-year colleges with program descriptions and guidelines indicating the variety of materials and methods currently in use. The contents of this monograph include "English at Forest Park Community College,""English at Hinds Junior College,""Reading and Writing at Staten Island Community College,""Graduate Departments and Community College English Teachers,"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Programs, Community Colleges, English Instruction, Guidelines, Higher...
Volume 19 of the newsletter of the National Association for Bilingual Education, which spans the period from September 1995 to August 1996, contains a variety of articles on issues and developments in bilingual education policy and programs, including: two way bilingual education; language information from the 1990 Census; cultural influence and learning styles among Korean students and Korean-Americans; American Indian and Alaska Native education; affirmative action; federal policy formation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affirmative Action, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans, Bilingual...
For more than 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of
Topics: ERIC Archive, Benchmarking, Mathematics Curriculum, Science Curriculum, Educational Policy,...
Special education teachers must have the skills to design and deliver intensive interventions for students with severe and persistent learning and behavioral needs. To ensure effective instruction for these students, preservice preparation programs must provide their teacher candidates with opportunities to learn, apply, and practice intensive intervention skills. Teacher preparation faculty play a critical role in ensuring the next generation of teachers have these opportunities. This guide...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Hayes, Lindsey, Intervention, Guides, Special Education Teachers, Special Needs...
Robin (n.d.) defines digital storytelling as "the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories", stressing that "they all revolve around the idea of combining the art of telling stories with a variety of multimedia, including graphics, audio, video, and Web publishing" (n.p.). While engaging in digital storytelling, learners practise the target language in a potentially highly motivating context, use the target language and other linguistic resources to engage in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Buendgens-Kosten, Judith, Story Telling, Multimedia Materials, Second Language...
This bibliography was compiled by the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) as a resource guide for the Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET). Part I contains descriptive information on materials developed under NET funding, organized by audience level (e.g., kindergarten through grade 6, teacher education, or food service training). Each citation contains an informative abstract, format description, language of the publication, and FNIC number. If the items may be purchased,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Resources, Elementary...
This monograph presents an overview of all educational programs approved for national dissemination by the federal Joint Dissemination Review Panel since l974. It provides basic information on exemplary products and practices in the described projects. The projects are divided into 16 sections: (1) adult education; (2) administration/organizational arrangements; (3) alternative schools/programs; (4) basic skills--language arts/writing; (5) basic skills--mathematics; (6) basic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Costs, Program...
This proceedings contains 36 papers presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Experiential Education. Papers are: "The Woods and the Trees: Interpreting Experiential Education for Schools and a Greater Audience" (Joanna Allen, John Hutchinson); "Adventure Programming & Prevention of Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Applying Research and the Public Health Model of Prevention" (Charles Ayers, David Shavel); "Are Those Families Swinging from the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Adventure Education, Corporate Education, Disabilities, Elementary...
Texas educates the second-most students in the country with a home language other than English. Students are identified as English learners (EL) based on a state language assessment that evaluates a student's primary language other than English to determine if the student qualifies for additional support to develop the English language skills necessary for success in school. Students with the EL classification -- also known as emergent bilingual students (EB) -- are able to acquire additional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Sikes, Chloe Latham Villanueva, Chandra Kring, Bilingualism, Bilingual...
This publication consists primarily of several hundred charts, graphs, and tables that present a wide variety of educational statistics for the United States through and including the 1975-76 school year. Section 1 provides a broad demographic and social context for examining education and traces the scope of the educational enterprise. Section 2 pursues in some detail three topics--participation in education, immediate and long-term outcomes of education, and financing the public elementary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphs, National Surveys,...
A listing of courses and programs offered by selected universities, colleges, and technical institutions in the United States and Canada is provided to assist students planning careers in the marine sciences and others who need current information on marine-related programs. Institutions included offer programs of at least 25 semester hours in the marine education field. In addition to traditional courses and programs, programs in marine law, fisheries and food science, the maritime field, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Science, Course Descriptions, Degree Requirements, Ecology, Engineering...
This volume records the presentations made at the Symposium on Research Applied to National Needs. The three major problem areas of energy, the environment, and productivity serve as a focus for the papers. The 14 papers in the first section deal with energy programs; energy under the ocean; energy conversion and transmission systems; and geothermal, wind, and solar energy. The second section includes 10 papers covering threats to man and his environment, environmental programs and projects,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economics, Energy, Environment, Program Descriptions, Public Policy, Scientific...
The Professional Semester program in the College of Education at Northeast Louisiana University originated in 1975 when a need was recognized to integrate practical applications of what was being taught in the required methods courses of the elementary education program. Program accreditation was received in Fall, 1998. This study was conducted to ascertain the effects of accreditation on preservice teachers' attitudes toward the competencies gained during elementary methods courses. It was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Attitude Measures, Education Majors, Elementary...
Background information on the Higher Education Act and issues and options for each title of the Act are considered in this report, which was prepared to help the U.S. Congress in its consideration of the reauthorization legislation. Included are basic data about higher education in the United States and an overview of research and development (R&D) activities being conducted in higher education institutions. The following topics are addressed: institutional purpose, enrollment trends,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Libraries, Continuing Education, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged,...
This guide provides descriptions of 2,008 summer and short-term academic and language study-abroad programs that range in length from one-week to several months. Introductory sections provide information on the Institute of International Education (IIE), IIE publications, the use of the guide, planning study abroad, and 78 publications and 34 websites on study and research abroad and funding opportunities. The majority of the guide consists of individual program descriptions, arranged...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Colleges, Eligibility, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher...
This report describes a major project in African curriculum development for public School teachers in the three state area of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. Included in the report is a discussion of the project's background, recruitment, staffing, the program, and evaluation results. The project has three major objectives: (1) to improve the skills of teachers in the African humanities by teaching them to diversify approaches to the study of Africa, to develop curriculum units, and to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African Culture, African History, African Literature, Art, Curriculum Development,...
This document consists of all 25 issues of Volume 12 of "The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education," a biweekly journal that addresses issues in higher education for Hispanic Americans. Each issue contains several feature articles, a policy update column called "Outlook on Washington," a description of an exemplary program, and a sample student success story. Among topics addressed in feature articles in each issue are: (1) public education and Hispanic Americans; (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Admission,...
This Northern Illinois University College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) initiative represents the authors' first attempt to prepare engineering and technology professors for teaching to improve student learning and the Scholarship of Teaching. This college portfolio is nontraditional in that it combines a learning paper approach with a literature study, the presentation of two interdependent research endeavors, design and methodology, results, full faculty development program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Worksheets, Teaching Models, Program...
This project was coordinated and funded by the California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS). Cal-PASS is a data sharing system linking all segments of education. Its purpose is to improve student transition and success from one educational segment to the next. Cal-PASS' standards deconstruction project was initiated by the faculty serving on the math intersegmental councils after reviewing data on student transition. A deconstruction process was devised by the participating...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Outcomes of Education, Articulation (Education), Algebra, Geometry, Calculus,...
This report describes the early childhood degree programs offered in Tennessee, focusing on variations in program content, age-group focus, student field-based learning, and faculty characteristics, as well as the extent to which Tennessee early care and education (ECE) higher education programs are incorporating early math, family engagement, and working with dual language learners. This report is part of our Early Childhood Higher Education Inventory. The "Early Childhood Higher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Edwards, Bethany Copeman Petig, Abby Austin, Lea J. E. Montoya, Elena, Early...
In the context of a large-scale randomized controlled trial, our team investigated "front line" teaching issues as schools implemented a fully digital, blended learning curriculum in mathematics. This paper focuses on observations of instruction within schools that were assigned to use the new digital resources. Compared to a business-as-usual control group, classroom activity and teaching practices changed in the treatment group. Observers, who were blind to student achievement...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Roschelle, Jeremy Herman, Phillip Bumgardner, Karen Shechtman, Nicole Feng,...
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of Uncommon Schools in a turnaround setting. Uncommon was awarded a 2016 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) to support TurnNJ, a project intended to support Uncommon's whole-school turnaround efforts in Camden and Newark, New Jersey. The study used a propensity score matching approach to examine the effects of two TurnNJ elementary schools and one TurnNJ middle school on student outcomes. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Burnett, Alyson McCullough, Moira Williams, Breyon, School Turnaround, Grants,...
This document consists of all 26 issues of Volume 9 of "The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education," a biweekly journal that addresses issues in higher education for Hispanic Americans. Each issue contains several feature articles, a policy update column called "Outlook on Washington," a description of an exemplary program, and a sample student success story. Among topics addressed by the feature articles for each issue are: (1) ethnic studies, urban educational improvement,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Career Choice,...
Focusing upon the role of the United States government in furthering educational and cultural relations with other nations, the book presents a history of cooperative exchange between the United States and Latin America from 1936-48. The report, based upon primary source material in the form of communications between the Department of State and foreign service posts in Latin America, is presented in six major sections. Section I investigates origins of the Pan American Movement in the early...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American History, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Culture Contact,...
What does it mean for students to be in a gifted program? While about 7% of students nationally participate in gifted programs, relatively little is known about the experiences of students in these programs or how they vary across districts. Combining administrative and survey data, we describe the structure of gifted programs across nearly 300 school districts in Washington State. Using covariate adjustments and student fixed effects, we find that participation in gifted programs increases...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Backes, Ben Cowan, James Goldhaber, Dan, Gifted Education, Academically Gifted,...
This project was coordinated and funded by the California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS). Cal-PASS is a data sharing system linking all segments of education. Its purpose is to improve student transition and success from one educational segment to the next. Cal-PASS' math deconstruction projects were initiated by the faculty serving on the math Professional Learning Councils after reviewing data on student transition. An Algebra I deconstruction process was devised by the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Outcomes of Education, Geometry, Trigonometry, Educational Objectives, Mathematics...
Spark NH is New Hampshire's governor-appointed Early Childhood Advisory Council (hereafter called "Council"), a private-public partnership that works to create a comprehensive, coordinated system of programs and supports for young children and their families. Workforce development is an essential Council strategy for improving early childhood education services. Specifically, the Council's Workforce and Professional Development Committee is working to enhance the state's capacity for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Kipnes, Fran Austin, Lea J. E. Sakai, Laura Whitebook, Marcy Ryan, Sharon,...
Different technologies have been used for decades to support adult education and learning. These include radio, television and audio and video cassettes. More recently digital ICTs such as computers, tablets, e-books, and mobile technology have spread at great speed and also found their way into the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy skills. The large spectrum of ICTs, which can be applied to different contexts, includes satellite systems, network hardware and software as well as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Technology Integration,...
Since 2007, nineteen Houston Independent School District (HISD) campuses have partnered with Literacy Now to offer the Reading Intervention program. The Reading Intervention program provides individualized, small group reading tutorials for at-risk students in kindergarten to second grade to create proficient readers by the end of third grade. Literacy Now also supports literacy development at home (Parent Engagement Workshops, Book Distribution, Family Literacy Night, and monthly newsletters)....
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Graham, Georgia, Literacy Education, Reading Programs, Kindergarten, Elementary...
The way that college students are introduced to research fails to encourage the ethical practice of open-ended curiosity so desperately needed in today's complex information environment. Drawing from a decade of Project Information Literacy's rigorous research studies, one surprising finding is especially concerning: A large majority of recent graduates from top U.S. universities and colleges reported that they felt that college failed to prepare them to ask questions of their own. The past two...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Fister, Barbara, College Students, Information Literacy, Ethics, Information...
This catalog lists exemplary field-based program improvement products identified by the Dissemination and Utilization Products and Services Program (D&U) at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. It is designed to increase awareness of these products among vocational educators and to provide information about them that facilitates effective use. Products are selected by D&U staff by screening various databases and by soliciting product nominations from vocational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Guidance, Communications,...
This catalog, the seventh in a series of annual listings of special adult education projects, was developed to facilitate the exchange of programmatic information among adult education practitioners about projects funded by states under Section 310 of the Adult Education Act. This catalog contains 382 project abstracts from 46 states. The abstracts appear in the catalog under 19 subject categories: administration, adults with disabilities, adult basic education, adult performance level/life...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Community Resources, Correctional...
This compendium of resources is designed for use by teachers, art educators, museum staff, youth leaders, program planners, and folklorists. Organized in the following way, chapter 1, "Folk Arts in Education," provides an overview of the development of folk-arts-in-education programs; chapter 2, "Reports from the Field," contains short reports from individuals who have developed or participated in a variety of folk-arts-in education projects and programs; chapter 3,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Education, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Guides, Educational...
Tennessee is home to more than 463,000 children under the age of six. Sixty-three percent of these young children have all available parents in the workforce and, thus, potentially need child care. Stakeholders and advocates in Tennessee remain committed to advancing strategies that improve early care and education (ECE) services, including workforce preparation and development in order to ensure that early educators have what they require to meet the complex needs of young children. Critical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Edwards, Bethany Copeman Petig, Abby Austin, Lea J. E. Montoya, Elena, Early...
This resource notebook is intended to assist vocational educators and minority business development center representatives working at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels in developing, improving, and expanding entrepreneurial training programs by developing program models, training strategies, and bibliographies of resource materials. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: what entrepreneurship is and why it is important, where entrepreneurship...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Education, Community Resources, Community Services, Educational Cooperation,...
