Standard 2 from the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Standards focuses on the importance of partnerships between P-12 schools and universities to enhance student learning and teacher candidate preparation. In the midst of discussions on how to improve partnerships between P-12 schools and universities, this article adds to…

Basic education is universal education, which aims to improve the basic quality of a nation's people. In the three decades since reform and opening up, earth-shaking changes have taken place in the quality of China's basic education. This article describes the path of development and changes in China's basic education over the past thirty years…

The 2010 Professional Development Schools National Conference recognized the professional development school relationship between Towson University with its dual certification major and the Howard County Public School System for its outstanding collaborative accomplishments, naming the Towson-Waterloo-Ilchester-Bellows Spring PDS as a recipient of…

The importance of including the development of prosocial behavior as an integral goal of the school curriculum is discussed and illustrated through the case of the Susquehanna School--a small, privately run elementary school in Binghamton, New York. (MP)

A district-wide language arts program for kindergarten through grade eight that emphasizes aesthetic expression in addition to a basic skills component is described in this booklet. The booklet also presents a statement of the goals of the school district's board of education, a list of overall program goals, and information on general program…

Describes the recent SAUCER Project at Edith Cowan University which was designed to answer questions such as what mathematics should really be taught, and what mathematics adults actually do in everyday life. (ASK)

This monograph attempts to answer some of the most commonly asked questions concerning career education: (1) What is career education?; (2) Why do we need career education?; (3) When and where does career education take place?; Also outlined are the goals of elementary education and how the development of career education awareness can fit into an…

Discusses how six fundamental goals of education are attainable through education in the arts. An elementary teacher education training program designed to produce teachers who are effective at incorporating arts into general education is described. (AM)

National studies of the progress being made toward the universalization of primary education in 12 Asian countries are reported in this collection. Begun in 1983, the studies were conducted to analyze the stage reached by the participating countries and the problems encountered by them in providing educational opportunities to all children at the…

This paper argues that to be successful, a reading program must incorporate a synthesis from Robinson and Rauch (1965) which states that a reading program should be planned cooperatively by the total school community; integrate the language arts with all subject areas; plan for continuity of reading interests, achievement, and development; provide…

The Career Education Model of the Orange County Consortium (OCC), consisting of two school districts and a community college district, is a comprehensive educational program focusing on careers, which begins in the preschool years and continues through adult education. The interim report on this model opens with a brief summary of the goals,…

Describes a program which focuses on the care and study of animals. The program, part of a grades K-6 science curriculum, emphasizes science process skills and encourages students to develop a questioning attitude about the world while they gain a sizable amount of background information about the animal world. (JN)

Describes an exemplary project in career education in South Carolina. (GB)

Summarizes the background conditions and rationale for the creation of the Aesthetic Education Program of CEMREL, Inc., and reviews its activities and accomplishments since its inception. (Author/RK)

Industrial arts education is designed specifically to help prepare individuals for meeting the requirements of a technological culture. It is an integral part of education from kindergarten through higher education which provides representative experiences in industrial skills and processes. This planned program requires special facilities which…