Some schools in South Dakota have gone one-to-one, and other schools have one computer cart for two grade levels. Some teachers refuse to use their computers for anything but email, and others are incorporating web 2.0 tools into their project-based learning curricula. But one thing that is consistent across the board is the need for…

We conducted a series of summer workshops on bioinformatics to increase educators' knowledge of this new field of inquiry with the assumption that their knowledge will, in turn, impact student achievement. The workshops incorporated experiential learning and self-reflection (Loucks-Horsley et al. 1998). Educators demonstrated significant increases…

From 2004-2007, the University of Memphis carried out the NSF-funded Tri-P-LETS (Three P Learning Environment for Teachers and Students) project to improve local high-school computer science curricula. The project reached a total of 58 classrooms in eleven high schools emphasizing problem solving skills, programming concepts as opposed to syntax,…

Since its inception in 1990, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Teacher at Sea program has enabled more than 460 teachers to gain first-hand experience of science and life at sea. By participating in this program, it becomes possible for teachers to enrich their classroom curricula with a depth of understanding made possible…

This document describes the East Caroline Islands lying in the Ponape District and the development of a Teacher Corps inservice program to aid public school teachers in professional development. Program objectives were to: (1) up-grade basic and professional skills of Micronesian interns; (2) implement a University Without Walls baccalaureate…

This article talks about the Australian Government "Summer School for Teachers" programme which was announced as part of the 2007-08 Budget Package: "Realising Our Potential." Funds earmarked for this initiative totalled some $102 million over four years, and it was sold to the Australian public as something that would both…

In 2001, the U.S. Department of Education and the Ministry of Education in China entered into a bilateral partnership to develop a technology-driven approach to foreign language learning that integrated gaming, immersion, voice recognition, problem-based learning tasks, and other features that made it a significant research and development pilot…

This report describes a demonstration project whose instructional design implemented sociolinguistic concepts in bilingual education and compared two approaches, the New Concurrent and the Language Separation approaches. The first section is a review of research studies concerning this instructional design. The second, third, and fourth sections…

THIS REPORT CONTAINS EVALUATIONS OF 22 TITLE I PROJECTS IN THE MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THERE WERE PROGRAMS IN SIX AREAS--(1) SUMMER AND AFTER-SCHOOL COMPENSATORY EDUCATION WHICH PROVIDED ENRICHMENT AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT, (2) CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION, (3) HEALTH AND WELFARE, (4) SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR PHYSICALLY…

This document is divided into five parts. In Part 1, the reader is introduced to the discussions that follow by an account of the effect of school crime on school climate, and the response of the Teacher Corps and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in creating a joint program in youth advocacy to improve conditions in the…

For the 1973-74 school year the California Career Education Task Force decided that expanded activities would be most productively developed at six previously funded sites plus two additional sites. Since the eight project sites differed in geographic location, socioeconomic level, size, ethnic composition, and school organizational pattern, a…

Discussed is a program that awards money to institutions that want to develop teacher training programs with national significance. Information on how the funds can be used and how the funds are distributed is included. (KR)

A training program that allows scientists and educators to experiment with new ways to improve student performance in science and mathematics is described. Scientists and educators are encouraged to work together to develop projects for in-service education and projects that can be worked on by students in the laboratory. (KR)