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Goodrum, Denis; Rennie, Leonie J. – Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training, 2007
In 2001, the Australian Government released a report, commissioned by the then Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, entitled "The Status and Quality of Teaching and Learning of Science in Australian Schools" (Goodrum, Hackling, & Rennie, 2001). Its recommendations included actions to address raising community…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Supply and Demand, Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy
Springer, Matthew G.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Gardner, Catherine G.; Ghoshdastidar, Bonnie; Lopez, Omar S.; Patterson, Christine H.; Taylor, Lori L. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2007
This report presents findings stemming from the first-year evaluation of the Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program, one of several statewide performance incentive programs in Texas. In the fall of 2006, the GEEG program made available non-competitive, three-year grants to 99 schools ranging from $60,000 to $220,000 per year. Grants…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Economically Disadvantaged, Research Reports
Eckardt, Mary Ellen; And Others – 1993
A program to train volunteer teachers of English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) is described and evaluated. The program was designed to enrich skills for teaching listening, reading, and speaking, and increase volunteers' appreciation and understanding of the multicultural backgrounds of the students in one adult basic education center. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Awareness
Fletcher, Ann – 1993
Based on a recent study of Israel's higher education, this publication describes the organization of higher education in Israel, makes placement recommendations at U.S. institutions based on Israeli credentials, and describes individual postsecondary institutions in Israel. Part 1 explains the organization of higher education in Israel where…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Art Education, College Admission
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1976
This package of handbooks on the Far West Laboratory version of Experience-Based Career Education provides information on the distinctive features of the Far West model. Part 1 on management has four handbooks: program overview; administration (attendance, budget, insurance and liability, schedules, staff, troubleshooting and problem solving);…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1995
This report provides a summary and assessment of the Priorities, Quality and Productivity (PQP) efforts during 1994-95 of Illinois community colleges and independent colleges and universities, collectively, and of individual public universities. Emphasis is on implementation of recommendations of the Illinois Board of Higher Education of November,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Instruction, College Outcomes Assessment, Colleges
Coley, Richard J., Ed. – ETS Policy Notes, 1995
This issue focuses on teaching for diversity, reviewing some strategies designed to increase the supply of minority teachers and to prepare all teachers to work with students of many different races, cultures, and backgrounds. These strategies are being piloted in programs across the United States. One strategy for increasing the supply of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Citizens for Missouri's Children, St. Louis. – 1994
This Kids Count report presents current information on adolescent pregnancy rates in Missouri. Part 1, "Overview of Adolescent Pregnancy in Missouri," discusses the changing pregnancy, abortion, and birth rates for 15- to 19-year-old adolescents, racial differences in pregnancy risk, regional differences suggesting a link between…
Descriptors: Abortions, Adolescents, Birth Rate, Births to Single Women
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1995
This publication describes the 12 winning programs and the 9 semifinalists of the 1995 U.S. Secretary of Education's Awards for Outstanding Vocational-Technical Education Programs. The awards program was established in 1981 to recognize excellence in local school-to-work and vocational-technical education programs, services, and activities that…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Apprenticeships, Auto Body Repairers, Awards
Ihde, Thomas W., Ed.; Stenson, Nancy, Ed. – Journal of Celtic Language Learning, 1996
The journal for teachers of Celtic languages in the United States and Canada contains six articles. "Motivation and Gender: A Welsh Case Study" (Christine M. Jones) examines data on characteristics of one group of students of Welsh, focusing on gender-related motivational differences. "Morphological Objects" (Annette…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational History
Hough, Ruth A.; And Others – 1996
The curriculum guide for the Academic Language and Literacy Training Project (ALLT) developed at Georgia State University is presented in this report. ALLT was a federally-funded training project designed to improve and extend the specialized training of Georgia teachers of limited-English-proficient students in the core curriculum areas of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, English for Academic Purposes
Wergin, Jon F. – 1994
This monograph examines issues in faculty and departmental collaboration in colleges and universities, focusing on structures and environments that support collaboration and reward productivity and progress toward institutional and disciplinary goals. An introductory chapter outlines four key issues: how colleges and universities can develop a…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, College Environment
Giroux, Roy F., Ed.; Mezei, Katherine E., Ed. – 1990
In June 1988, the heads of Staff Development of each institution of the Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology were invited to submit brief descriptions of 5 to 10 outstanding programs or practices designed to develop human resources within the college. This directory of exemplary practice provides a selection of the colleges'…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Articulation (Education), College Administration, College Faculty
Doucette, Don, Ed. – Leadership Abstracts, 1991
"Leadership Abstracts" is published bimonthly and distributed to the chief executive officer of every two-year college in the United States and Canada. This document consists of the 15 one-page abstracts published in 1991. Addressing a variety of topics of interest to the community college administrators, this volume includes: (1) "Delivering the…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Change Strategies
Martinez, Art; Gonis, Marla – 1992
The High School Equivalency Program (HEP) at Milwaukee Area Technical College, in Wisconsin, is designed to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents obtain General Educational Development (GED) degrees, and gain employment or enroll in postsecondary educational programs outside of the agricultural setting. Before enrolling in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
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