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High School Gifted.
Drum, Jean, Ed. – Communicator, 1993
This theme issue on gifted high school students presents several feature articles, a California legislative update, and an editorial. In "Summer Seminar '93--California in the 21st Century," Janis Van Dreal describes a 2-week residential program in which gifted high school students examined California's future. "Visiting a Gifted…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Gifted, High Schools
Middle School Gifted.
Drum, Jean, Ed. – Communicator, 1993
This theme issue discusses the special needs of gifted students at the middle school level. It presents several articles, editorials, a California funding update, a program spotlight, an educator profile, a column on educational technology, and a book review. An article by Terry A. Thomas, titled "Middle School Madness," discusses middle schools'…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Adolescents, Curriculum Development, Educational Practices
Long Range Planning in Student Affairs.
Pillinger, Barbara Baxter; Kraack, Thomas A. – OSA Research Bulletin, 1980
The concept and implementation of long-range planning for student affairs is considered, and a simple model for planning that could be useful to chief student personnel officers is presented. Several issues are considered in this process: the conditions and premises crucial to planning, a systematic approach to planning, the locus of the planning…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Environment, College Planning, Decision Making
Identifying and Serving Diverse Populations.
Hiatt, Evelyn Levsky, Ed.; Covington, Jeanette, Ed. – Update on Gifted Education, 1991
This document is a "theme" issue of a quarterly serial publication. It focuses on identifying and serving gifted children from diverse populations. The first article, "Eliminating Four Barriers to the Identification of Gifted Minority Students" by Mary Frasier, notes that: (1) not every impoverished home is illiterate; (2) limited opportunities…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Development
Profiles: Programs & Products. Numbers 1-14, September-November 1981.
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Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1981
Profiles of 14 educational programs and products are presented which focus on competency- and goal-based education. Each report contains a description of the background, goals, and methods of the program or product, as well as the address of a contact person. The programs described are: (1) Project Write, designed to improve composition skills of…
Descriptors: Administration, Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education, Continuous Progress Plan
Inschool Suspension Programs for At-Risk Students.
Leatt, Desmond J. – OSSC Bulletin, 1987
Research findings and examples of inschool suspension programs in Oregon are combined in this bulletin. An introduction defines "at-risk" students as those having behavioral or attendance problems. Unlike traditional out-of-school suspension, alternative programs attempt to keep at-risk students at school. Chapter 1 surveys three…
Descriptors: Attendance, Behavior Problems, Consultation Programs, Cooperative Planning
The New Basic: Oral Communication.
Boileau, Don M.; McBath, James H. – Updating School Board Policies, 1987
School systems are increasingly following national reports' recommendations that oral communication instruction in the high school curriculum should develop students' everyday academic competencies, personal confidence, and research and employment abilities. This report discusses instructional applications of oral communication and offers course…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Competence, Creative Expression