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Berry, Mary F. – USA Today, 1979
Citing the nation's need for an environmentally aware citizenry, the author discusses federal and international efforts toward environmental education, particularly UNESCO's First Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education, held in Tbilisi in October, 1977. She proposes methods by which the United States could implement the…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Policy, Environmental Education, Federal Programs
Download full textFederal Resource Center for Special Education, Washington, DC. – 1998
This document reports on a 1998 conference on technical assistance and dissemination attended by representatives from the Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) projects, and regional resource centers. The conference was intended to increase knowledge concerning…
Descriptors: Conferences, Disabilities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Page, Stephen, Ed.; Shaw, Danielle, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004
Beginners in many disciplines learn that correlation never proves causation, but sometimes, even in public health, correlation, mistaken for causation, becomes the basis for policy and great expenditures of public and private money. "True experiments" with random assignment to experimental and control groups hold a special place in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, Statistical Studies
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
School-family partnerships (SFPs) have been the focus of research, policy, and practice efforts for several years. Increasing the interest in SFPs has been the finding that when schools and families cooperate closely, children benefit. The more supportive links there are between settings, the more potential there is for healthy development. Such…
Descriptors: Conferences, Politics of Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
Work-based education (WBE), including traditional vocational education and other career-focused programs, was an important curricular component in American schools for most of the 20th century. The 1990s was a period of substantial change for work-based education (WBE). Spurred on by a concern about the international competitiveness of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Tech Prep, Education Work Relationship
DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, Pleasantville, NY. – 2000
The first meeting of the National Literacy Summit 2000 convened 150 leaders from adult education and literacy and other related fields for a 2-day intensive working meeting to begin building a national consensus on how to move adult and family literacy forward in the 21st century. Comments and suggestions offered by summit participants were…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies
