This is the second Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee hearing this year focusing on college affordability. The focus is on institutions that are breaking with "business as usual" to implement promising strategies and practices, innovations, and initiatives to improve college affordability. The panel emphasizes efforts at…

The theoretical background of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) is examined, CLS is advocated as part of a jurisprudence course, and some possibilities for content of such a course are discussed. (MSE)

The National Education Commission on Time and Learning (NECT&L) is an independent advisory body authorized by Congress through the Education Council Act of 1991. It has been asked to make a comprehensive review of the relationship between time and learning in elementary and secondary education, including international comparisons, the use of…

Author discusses objectives, programs and evaluation of National School Lunch Act and Child Nutrition Amendments. Analyses present nutritional education training programs and their possible future effects. Proposes teaching strategies, methods of curriculum design and course content for nutritional education are proposed. (SMB)

Performance theorist Herbert Blau's "The Audience" (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1990) is an important yet neglected theoretical text on theatre audience. Deconstructive, dense and allusive in nature, Blau's text creates a real challenge for his reader. This paper presents a study of "The Audience" employing what I am calling…

One of a series of implementation documents prepared in conjunction with the revised minimum standards adopted in 1983 by the Ohio State Board of Education, this document suggests ways to develop economic education programs in Ohio high schools and identifies issues certain to be encountered in developing such a program. Each of the five sections…

This report is intended to provide school authorities with information useful in arranging courses of study and in providing proper conditions, to assist teachers in choosing instructional materials and in handling them according to the best teaching methods available, and to lay a foundation for articulating the movement for improved teaching of…

This document presents Volume I of the California Community Colleges Curriculum Standards Handbook, detailing legal and procedural requirements for college curricula. Following a prefatory description of the role of the standards in college accountability, section 1 provides state education codes related to the approval of community college…

This document provides standards of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification relating to the development, content, and periodic review of teacher education programs. It is also a guide for institutions planning revisions of existing programs or seeking to develop new teacher education programs. Chapter one…

The model course content standards for foreign language instruction in Colorado's public schools, K-12, provide guidelines, not curriculum, for school districts to design language programs. An introductory section presents some basic considerations in program design. The two general standards for foreign language performance are that: (1) students…

This handbook, published for the use of Alberta administrators, counselors, and educators, serves the following purposes: (1) to communicate information useful in organizing and operating schools and early childhood services programs; and (2) to identify program requirements specified by Alberta Education and the foundation on which these…

Curriculum rules for the state of Texas, grades K-12, were mandated by the 67th Texas legislature (legal reference: Texas Education Code Par. 21.101; 19 Texas Administrative Code 75 (Curriculum)). The rules are organized under seven headings: (A) general provisions; (B) essential elements, grades K-6; (C) essential elements and list of approved…

Early Childhood Education (ECE) Tech Prep is a partnership among Washington's Centralia College, secondary schools, business, and the community to prepare students and workers through logically sequenced courses leading to successful transition from high school to postsecondary education and/or work. This articulation agreement describes goals and…

This publication provides the General Requirements and Minimum Standards developed by the National Court Reporters Association's Council on Approved Student Education (CASE). They are the same for all court reporter education programs, whether an institution is applying for approval for the first time or for a new grant of approval. The first…

This order presents regulations on the teacher training requirements for the Danish Folkeskole (municipal primary and lower secondary school). The document is organized into seven chapters. Chapter 1 presents the 4-year program's objectives: to provide preservice teachers with subject-related and pedagogical insights; to train them to cooperate,…