Early last week the U.S. Department of Education announced an unexpected 16 finalists for the first round of Race to the Top (RTT) funding--a veritable traffic jam in the Race to the Top. The finalists have requested a total of $6.5 billion in funds, but only $4.3 billion is up for grabs, and that needs to be spread over two rounds of competition.…

The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the finalists for the second round of the Race to the Top (RTT) competition, with the winners to be announced in September. Round one of the competition yielded just two awards earlier this year, with Delaware and Tennessee claiming approximately $600 million of the available funds. Thirty-five…

In this document a regional review of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) is presented. The technique used for the review was the structured interview in which each regional office program manager was asked the same set of questions, all dealing with the administrative aspects of the ESAA program. The questions contained in the interview covered…

A need exists for the National Institute of Education (NIE) to extend the range of its concern with measurement into a number of new areas. While the measurement of basic cognitive abilities is well-advanced, accurate measures of affective and higher-order cognitive abilities are not generally available. Measurement could also be extended into…

This article reports on methodological approaches to evaluate the relevance and quality of educational research publications. In the first section it focuses on the ISI Social Science Citation Index and shows that this standard instrument for bibliometric measurement is insufficient for the representation of European educational research. In the…

Article provided a series of recommendations for the revitalization of the university as a center for preparing teachers. (Author/RK)

Presents guidelines for technology grant writing. Focuses on preparing a Request for Proposal, which is issued by a funding agency. Describes how to address the following basic categories: introduction, goals and objectives, plan of operation, evaluation plan, budget, and supporting documents. (AEF)

Reviews research on four dimensions of temperament: positive emotionality/approach, fear, irritability/frustration, and attentional persistence. Applies knowledge of temperament to teachers' approaches to children's mastery motivation, fear of novelty, and ego-based anxiety. Argues that educators' training should include understanding of…

Through successive rounds of negotiations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) encourages countries to commit their higher education system to the mandates of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The WTO is an organization committed to the aggressive trade liberalization of services like higher education. This ideology, known as…

Guidelines and references are included for developing proposals to be submitted to the Occupational Research Coordinating Unit. Outlines and criteria for evaluation are included for (1) research type proposals, (2) training type program proposals, and (3) experimental, developmental, or pilot type program proposals. Also included are (1) a budget…

Responses derived from 152 of 219 schools and dormitories operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) are presented in this assessment of the Native American Indian Women's Association recommendations considered by the Assistant Area Directors for Education to be immediately implementable. Each report is presented in terms of a code…

Discusses the characteristics of applicants, their experience, satisfaction with proposal review, and the analysis of survey results. (CW)

Describes an effort by the Illinois Library Association to encourage and coordinate the continuing professional development of Illinois librarians through a Mentoring Network. The pilot project proposal is outlined, and the current situation is described. (eight references/notes) (EA)

This report summarizes the recommendations of a panel evaluating the draft proposal prepared by the International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm) for the development of a network for terminology and documentation. These recommendations, which have been incorporated into the final study (see related document) include: (1) the…

Historical and present-day developments indicate that the continuing education of physicians is one of the most important problems in medical education today. The gap between scientific knowledge and application is increasing, largely because of the rapid advance of research, imbalance in the quantity, quality, and availability of opportunities…