This paper describes a new social networking site, Cloudworks, which aims to provide a dynamic environment for finding, sharing and discussing learning and teaching ideas and designs. The paper begins by discussing the mismatch between the potential application of technologies in education and their actual use in practice. It considers some of the…

North Queens Community High School serves approximately 200 students, 16-20 years old, as they strive to reach their personal and academic goals. All students at North Queens have previously been enrolled in high school elsewhere and are over-age and undercredited. Small class sizes, student-centered support, and an accelerated credit acquisition…

Education leaders across the country confront a growing challenge: too many students are not college ready when they leave high school. Although indicators exist to identify students at risk of dropping out of high school, few indicators of students' college readiness are currently in place, and few districts have linked indicators to practices…

To address key policy and programmatic questions and help improve student and system performance, states must work to link data across the early childhood, postsecondary and workforce (P-20/workforce) spectrum and share this information with appropriate stakeholders. This issue brief highlights current efforts in California, Florida, Indiana, and…

Using Leeds & Northrup Development Institute as an example of a corporate university, the authors discuss ways in which the medium-sized corporation can establish a successful, low-cost effort to serve as an educational delivery system. (TA)

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Focuses on admissions policies, program services (including diagnostic testing and prescriptive planning, program advisement, and instructional assistance), and the preparation of high school students for college experiences. (CL)

Discusses the development of the National Center for Developmental Education (NCDE), from its conception as a regional consortium to its expansion as a national resource center. Describes the NCDE's mission of teaching, service, and research. Reviews the Kellogg Institute, providing advanced training for experienced developmental educators, and…

Describes major features of the peer tutoring program at State University of New York, College of New Paltz. Presents specific suggestions for hiring and training tutors, maintaining staff morale and program visibility, and conducting program evaluations. (DR)

These three papers explore ways to use television for instructional purposes. "ITFS for Lifelong Learning--'The Development of a System'" (Leonard J. Bathurst) provides a brief historical overview of the background and some of the experiences at California State University, Fresno, as an Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS)…

The paper describes the structure, curriculum pattern, teaching strategies, and program impact of a teacher education program designed for minority students preparing to teach handicapped children. (CL)

Reviewed are the implementation strategies and the policy trends of national and regional (western Pacific) population education programs along with the identification of new program goals and emerging needs for cooperative action among the countries in Asia which participated in the UNESCO-sponsored population education consultative seminar in…

This directory of consultants is intended to provide a reference tool to rural educators seeking advice and assistance in adapting existing programs or building new programs to serve the rural adult. Introductory material notes that the process used to locate these professionals included a national survey of rural model programs conducted by the…

This paper begins by delineating common characteristics of nannies and indicating aspects of England's nanny training programs. The discussion then focuses on efforts begun in 1985 in Wisconsin to develop nanny training programs through the Vocational, Technical and Adult Education's post-secondary system. Particular emphasis is given to findings…

Prepared for use by teachers, guidance counselors, administrators, and career education personnel, this source book is designed to stimulate ideas for program planning, to help them become acquainted with the kinds of activities other schools have found to be successful, to provide personnel from other school districts to contact who have worked…