The Families as Allies Conference was held to promote collaborative working relationships between professionals and parents of seriously emotionally handicapped children and adolescents, at the case level as well as the service delivery system level. This working conference was designed to involve equal numbers of parents and professionals,…

Three reports on further education and a new training initiative in Great Britain are presented, based on a 1982 meeting of the Association of Vice Principals of Colleges, England. In "The New Training Initiative," Graham Kendall considers the philosophy and the development of vocational preparation. Three aspects of the new training…

A state-of-the-art convocation brought together a select group of 30 American Indian leaders to discuss national goals for American Indian education. The conference was held in order to clarify the role of the National Indian Education Association, to unify the major national organizations and agencies involved in Indian education, and to…

Papers are on the topics of: perspectives on the place of institutional research in policy, programs, and politics (William H. Faricy, Virginia P. Mitchell, Paul L. Kenepp, Dwight C. Smith, Jr., Wendell G. Lorang, Jr., Ronald H. Stein); assessment and management in higher education (Jerry W. Brown, J. Barton Luedeke, Adolph Katz, James J.…

Conference proceedings are presented which explored the relationship of cultural pluralism to citizen education. Discussants included members of federal offices, national organizations, state departments of education, and private foundations from the U.S. Office of Education, the Office of Bilingual Education, the Council of Chief State School…

Proceedings are reported of a conference for Illinois occupational teacher educators designed to share with them information and materials developed in selected projects and to involve them in long-range planning for program improvement. Following a brief introductory section, the report presents summaries of the conference presentations given by…

This proceedings contains the full texts of five keynote speeches: "The Continuing Challenge of the Disadvantaged Student" by Nolen Ellison; "Fostering Creativity in the Teaching-Learning Process" by Norman Watson; "From Junior College to Community College and the Significance of the Change" by John Dunn; Robert Heinich's "From Learning Theory to…

On March 4, 1977, the Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE) of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Board of Education of the City of New York co-sponsored a National Conference on Minimum Competencies: Trends and Issues. Six papers were presented: "An Overview Regarding Minimal…

The conference speakers addressed themselves to the general themes of assessment and policy in education. Each speaker approached the subject in his own way. In broad terms, Albert Quie and Harold Ruvoldt, Jr. emphasize the urgency of measuring the needs of school children and finding effective ways to match resources to those needs; Henry Dyer,…

The 1976 meeting of the Education Commission of the States (ECS) concerned ways to relate education more effectively to the world of work. If states and localities decide to orient education increasingly toward career and occupational goals, changes will be necessary in governance and administration as well as curriculum and teaching approaches.…

Presents responses of seven U.S. business leaders (G. Ball, J. Hume, S. Ingram, D. Kearns, T. Peters, D. Roberts, and T. Roeser) to questions about the six national goals for elementary education and secondary education by the year 2000. Highlights enhanced accountability, educational vouchers, structural reform, and resource allocation. (JB)

Representatives of 11 organizations playing a leading role in agricultural education (AE) attended a conference to discuss their vision of AE in the year 2000. During the conference, the issues of greatest concern to AE were prioritized, specific strategies/solutions to accomplish each priority were identified, an action plan to achieve desired…

This document contains papers from 35 symposia as well as 2 keynote presentations at the 1996 Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) conference. The symposia are on the following topics: (1) HRD town forum; (2) HRD and business outcomes; (3) action learning; (4) evaluation issues in HRD; (5) rethinking diversity; (6) HRD in selected nations;…

The theme of the 1993 conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education was "Pathways to Partnerships: Coalitions for Environmental Education." Speakers on environmental issues represented government agencies and legislative houses, international institutions, businesses, and academia and included U.S. Representative Karan…

These highlights and recommendations from the 1992 National Training Institute and Spring Issues Conference are the result of a consensus building activity that took place on the final afternoon of the conference. Conference participants used an Instantaneous Response Interactive System to enter their responses to questions. Responses were…