The purpose of this study was to Local Governments' Education Strategy on the Public Service Delivery for Learning City. This study uses case studies to collect and analyze data, generate inductions, empirical observations, and SWOT analysis. Driving Thailand's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) policy showed that the area conditions were in…

Scholarship about the growth of educational development has charted major shifts in developers' focuses and roles through time and, especially in recent years, has explored the professionalization of the field around the globe. This essay uses a lifecycle analogy to consider the development of one organization, the POD Network (The Professional…

This case study of the development of the Norwegian compulsory school curriculum of 1997, "Laereplanverket 1997," parallels a study of the development of the "Illinois Learning Standards" of 1997. The pair of case studies is designed to explore the administration of state-based curriculum-making and, in particular, the use in…

The unique features and educational affordances of Web 2.0 technologies pose new challenges for conducting learning and teaching research in ways that adequately address ethical issues of informed consent, beneficence, respect, justice, research merit and integrity. This paper reviews these conceptual bases of human research ethics and gives…

Although multilingualism is the norm in Africa the degree of linguistic complexity varies from one specific national context to another. While some countries are highly multilingual, others have fairly few languages. Similarly, whereas in some countries a good number of languages enjoy majority status; in others, we have a myriad of primarily…

One serious purpose of the Program Development Committee is to share ideas about education with Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) Branches around the world. Benefits of sharing ideas include: (1) Making connections with others who share interests, and thereby enrich and strengthen your ideas for helping children; and (2)…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to seek to appraise regional compliance to decentralization laws establishing Education Boards and Committees since the Nigerian Government has for some time now been making efforts aimed at reforming her educational system. Design/methodology/approach: Employing ex post facto design, the study uses survey…

Prepared for educators interested in correspondence, broadcasting, and other media, this newsletter summarizes recent events in extension education programs around the world. This issue contains: (1) a cost analysis of duplication processes; (2) notices for several on-going international projects; (3) an article on educational reforms in Peru; (4)…

Author reviewed formal decision making processes that have transpired over the past 3 1/2 years in considering an affirmative answer to the elementary-school-accreditation-now question. (Author/RK)

Relates how the Standing Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) came together and worked together to develop guidelines on English and language arts teacher education which will stand from 1996-2006. Discusses getting from drafts to a published document. (PA)

Author, a Senior Master at Abbey Wood School, is chairman of the Primary-Secondary School Liaison Committee which has pioneered an experiment in cooperation between the comprehensive and its neighborhood primary schools. (Author/RK)

This report contains the collective views of an international group of experts presented at a meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Education of Engineers in Environmental Health held in Geneva, 1967. Attention of the Committee focused on environmental health in terms of the relationship between man and the…

Poland's entire educational structure is being revamped as part of far-reaching plans to "build a second Poland in 15 years". Article discussed the plans of the Committee of Experts on the State of Education in Poland. (Editor/RK)

This article provided a description of a particular scheme initiated by the City of Birmingham's education committee. (Editor/RK)