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Dixon, Kathryn – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Language education policy has been a controversial and ongoing issue throughout the U.S., particularly in the state of Texas. This paper reports on a frame analysis of the five bills that amended the Texas Education Code to implement or expand bilingual education and English as a second language programs. Analysis focused on problems and solutions…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, English Only Movement, English (Second Language)
Milar, Katherine S. – 2003
In 1928, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial granted funds to the University of Cincinnati to establish a child study and parent education program for African-Americans. This paper traces the origin of the idea for this program to a special relationship between the family of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and Spelman College, an African-American…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Nonprofit Organizations, Parent Education, Philanthropic Foundations
Barnes, Melissa – 2002
This paper discusses how the Career Services Office at Allegheny College has shifted its emphasis over the last five years to programming related to internships. Although the office has not stopped providing the career counseling, resume critiques and on-campus interview schedules that are traditionally provided by career services offices, all new…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Students, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Worth, Charles E.; Worth, Maria M. – 1986
To provide an understanding of the issues and essential elements involved in developing effective inservice programs for administrators, information from research on teacher inservice programs was adapted in light of the insights of several administrators attending the 1986 national conference of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Hughes, Selma; Brewer, Jeanne – 1985
The paper provides an overview of issues in postsecondary education programing for adults and adolescents with learning disabilities. Information provided is derived from a literature review and research and clinical experience. Definitional distinctions between learning disabled (LD) and underachieving students are noted and characteristics (both…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Postsecondary Education, Program Development
McAnany, Emile G. – 1978
The successful application of communication or educational technology in developing nations is dependent upon a favorable mix of planning factors and the more predominant contextual factors of local settings. Planning strategies should be adopted to search for those contexts that promise the best results from a rationally planned application of…
Descriptors: Communications, Cultural Context, Developing Nations, Educational Planning
Wu, Wu-Tien; Schaffer, Eugene C. – 1981
The paper traces the history of special education programs for gifted students in Taiwan and describes the current goals and nature of gifted programs. Four areas of support from the Ministry of Education are noted: program design, teacher education, resources (publications and instructional materials), and research. The identification procedure…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Gifted, History
Dosa, Marta L. – 1987
Focusing on the role of information in the planning and managing of intergenerational programs, this paper argues that two types of information--formal/objective and personal/subjective--must be addressed in relation to the problems of aging members of our society. These two types of information are characterized via illustrative stories: the…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Cultural Context, Gerontology, Information Transfer
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Poulton, Nick L. – 1978
Typical characteristics of program reviews, illustrations of to whom the reviews relate in a university setting, and conditions and expectations that may enhance the use of the results of program reviews are described in this report. It is argued that program reviews do not serve all levels of a university equally; the primary beneficiaries of the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Decision Making, Departments
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce – 1984
The paper examines key issues in the future of gifted education, first noting the emphasis in the current literature on the need for restructuring the curriculum, particularly in science and mathematics. Findings regarding definitions of gifted children are examined, noting the frequent practice of arbitrarily identifying those dimensions of…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Gifted
Roedell, Wendy C. – 1982
The author describes how intellectual and academic strengths develop in young children and how children's daily behavior can reveal the presence of extraordinary capability. The relationships between the emergence of advanced intellectual skills and development of physical and social competencies are discussed. The implications of children's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Gifted
Feral, Crystal-Helen – 1999
To help mitigate the impact of multi-environmental degradation, the model program for emotionally at-risk children that uses nature to enhance emotional well-being (or intellect) has been constructed, implemented and researched. The six sessions that compose the program are designed to impart social-emotional understanding and prime perceptions by…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Children, Counseling Techniques, Elementary Education
Cosky, Alicia C. – 1987
High-quality leisure education programs for the elderly are few in number considering the size of the older population. Most existing programs are probably inappropriate for the elderly age group. Better perspectives and understanding on the part of leisure educators is needed. Leisure education programs for the elderly may become more plentiful…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Financial Support, Leisure Education, Older Adults
Ellerman, Gary – 1986
The need to establish teacher education programs which inculcate at least the basic principles of multicultural education has been recognized repeatedly by both the profession and governmental agencies which administer programs of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education. What is crucial to this matter is the model selected by a given…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Global Approach, Higher Education
Tanner, C. Kenneth; Young, I. Philip – 1983
Systematic investigation of processes involved in needs analysis would improve current knowledge of the procedure and would bring analysts closer to the goal of generalized validity rather than situational validity. This article deals with two phases of the needs assessment process: selecting participants and defining needs and alternatives in…
Descriptors: Criteria, Evaluation, Needs Assessment, Participant Characteristics
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