There is a shortage in the number of funded doctoral programs in the field of special education. As a result the number of higher education faculty who are trained in the knowledge and skills necessary to train the next generation of special education teachers is critically low. This article describes a doctoral program funded by the Office of…

This report summarizes the results obtained from the training program for directors of educational research conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1967 to 1973. This program consisted of up to three years of graduate study culminating in the Ph.D. degree. The objective of the program was to prepare persons for leadership positions…

Implementation of a program designed to prepare researchers in social science education, the Research Training Program at the University of Michigan, is reported. The research focus was given to problems relating to the teaching of the social sciences and history and to such topics as curriculum construction, controversial issues, the conduct of…

An internship is required of doctoral programs in vocational-technical education programs funded under Section 552 of the Education Professions Development Act; the programs of the 11 original EPDA 552 institutions were investigated, and the results are presented. The historical background of internship in the United States is developed in a…

The Experimental Program for Opportunities in Advanced Study and Research in Education was a 3-year training program (1979-82) funded by the National Institute of Education to increase participation in educational research of women and minorities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. During the third project year, these objectives guided the…