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Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1988
This state master plan provides a structure to facilitate the development of an appropriate and effective education system for all students in Utah, including those at risk of dropping out and of failing to achieve literacy. The challenges of ensuring an appropriate and effective education for each student are significant, numerous, and complex;…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Dropout Prevention, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textMiller, Bruce A. – 1988
Small, sometimes multi-cultural, rural schools need specialized preservice teacher education programs to prepare teachers. After outlining the classroom, school, and sociocultural characteristics affecting a teacher's success and survival in a rural community, this paper discusses the apparent lack of rural content in teacher preparation programs…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Elementary Secondary Education, Hawaiians, Multigraded Classes
Carpenter, Don A., Ed. – Focus: A Forum on Teaching and Learning in Utah Community and Technical Colleges, 1984
This collection of articles addresses various aspects of curriculum and instruction at Utah's community colleges. First, "Reflections on the Changing Role and Mission of Utah Community and Technical Colleges," by Don A. Carpenter, considers the colleges' role in meeting needs for comprehensiveness, "practical" general…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Barker, Bruce O. – 1987
High school administrators in sparsely populated rural areas are showing great interest in interactive satellite instruction as a way to resolve teacher shortages and meet rigorous state graduation requirements. Televised classes permitting live teacher/student interaction via satellite communication systems and regular telephone lines provide…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Community Education
Reese, E. Rosalie – 1983
Hearing impaired children from birth to age 5 in rural areas throughout the state of Utah are served by a home-based program which trains parents to communicate effectively with their hearing impaired child. The program is based on the following premises: (1) the preschool years are critical for developing communication skills; (2) the home is the…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Delivery Systems, Hearing Impairments
Texas Water Development Board, Austin. – 1991
The resource persons and program descriptions in this directory came from answers supplied in a 1988 survey mailed to 135 entities having some relationship to or interest in promoting the distribution of water education materials suitable for use in Texas elementary or secondary schools. This directory includes an update on the programs submitted…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Drama, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Carpenter, Don A., Ed. – Focus: A Forum on Teaching and Learning in Utah Community and Technical Colleges, 1986
Innovative programs at Utah community and technical colleges are described and other topics of interest to faculty, staff, and administrators are addressed in this collection of articles. The journal contains the following articles by Utah two-year college faculty members: (1) "Open Access and Academic Excellence at Dixie College," by…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Business Administration Education, College Curriculum, College Faculty
