Describes the Graduate Induction Program, a collaborative effort by Winona State University (MN) and the Rochester (MN) Public School District, designed to encourage graduates entering the teaching program and renew veteran teachers. Graduate fellows earn a master's degree as they teach elementary classes, and the veteran teachers serve as…

This report discusses forces that are shaping alternative approaches to the delivery of postsecondary education, particularly distance education and open learning. One of these forces is the ever-changing composition of the student body, whose demands are increasing and whose needs are becoming more disparate because of a more and more…

This report of the "Listen '95: Kids Can't Wait" conference presents the lives and concerns of Minnesota youth as described by the youth who participated in it. The issues of alcohol and drug abuse, violence, and education were the top concerns of the youth that participated in the first statewide conference in 1994. In focusing on these…

This report summarizes the work of Minnesota's Legislative Commission on Children, Youth, and Their Families (LCCYF). The commission was established in 1991 to study state policy and legislation affecting children and their families, and to make recommendations to promote the present and future well-being of these groups. The report begins with an…

Designed to assist Minnesota educators and mental health professionals in developing comprehensive mental health services for children, this report summarizes research findings and issues in the area of primary and secondary prevention of emotional disturbances in children. It begins by reviewing factors found to contribute to emotional…

Teacher education is quickly evolving, reflecting the dynamic complexity and heterogeneity of U.S. society. Collaboration of state licensing agencies and university/college and school personnel is essential in pursuing creative options to meet student needs. This collaboration requires a careful examination of the roles played by each of the three…

This document provides the case studies for an original report on the status of coordination among job related education and training programs. The document contains case studies of state-level coordination in Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Washington. It also includes a section on coordination in selected California…

In May 1987, the Legislative Audit Commission for the State of Minnesota directed the Program Evaluation Division to examine noninstructional expenditures for elementary and secondary education. This report, the first of two, focuses on two questions: (1) Has the commitment of resources in Minnesota to instructional activities declined relative to…

The partially annotated bibliography provides an overview of recent literature (1971-79) and data sources regarding the needs and conditions of Chicanos and Latinos living in Minnesota. The research cited generally appears to be directed either to state and local decision makers or to service providers and focuses on socio-economic conditions,…

This booklet contains the 14 exercises that are used in the Bloomington, Minnesota, school system's writing assessment program. Depending on their applicability, the exercises may be used to assess the writing performance of fourth-, eighth-, or eleventh-grade students. Thirteen of the exercises are from the National Assessment of Educational…

This summary of the Bloomington, Minnesota, public schools writing assessment program includes background information about the selection of exercises that assessed fourth-, eighth-, and eleventh-grade students' writing abilities, a list of these exercises that were used, and information about the students who were assessed. The results of the…

The study surveyed the perceptions of selected male public senior secondary students relative to the specialized and comprehensive types of public two year post-secondary schools in Minnesota. Their perceptions of both school related and non-school related factors were determined. Further, the relative importance of these two types of factors, as…

An attempt was made to gather information about working women and to learn what provisions they made for the care of their preschool age children while they worked. In the pursuit of this information, the following tasks were performed: (1) documentation of where and how children are cared for while their mothers work, (2) finding out what working…

Recently the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) completed a project to connect the scale of the MCA and BST with NWEA's RIT scale. Six Minnesota systems participated in the study, using test information from a group of over 13,000 students enrolled in third, fifth, and eighth grades who took these Minnesota Assessments and NWEA tests in the…

This report explores a range of issues related to the successful instruction of literacy-level English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) adults. The paper describes types of programs as well as factors that affect this population. Through a series of teacher interviews, the unique characteristics of these learners as well as suggested curricula are…