This document is one of three products developed as part of a 2-year project designed to increase the motivation of minority young women to pursue occupations and careers that will be in demand in the future. It is hoped that these products will help schools and businesses to cooperate in conducting a mentoring program. It provides guidelines for…

This document offers three papers that were commissioned by the Executive Committee of the Minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (MACTE) for presentation at the organization's April 10, 1987 meeting. The challenge to each author (one representing the Minnesota State University System, one the University of Minnesota system, and…

The last in a three-part series, this report highlights Oregon's most pressing child care needs and suggests actions to be taken to realize Oregon's commitment to children's futures, a commitment evident in the fact that 30 of the state's 36 counties have designated high quality child care as a top priority. In this report, recommendations are…

Twenty-one local education agency teacher incentive programs from seven north central states--Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin--are described in this report. Methodology involved mail surveys of certified staff (which yielded an overall response rate of 78 percent), telephone interviews with program leaders and…

Three phases of any change effort include initiation, implementation, and continuation. This seventh guidebook in a series of nine video conferences addresses later stages of implementation and continuation (initiation and early stages of implementation are discussed in the sixth guidebook.) In the guidebook are definitions of the three phases of…

To assure accountability to educational policy developed by elected and appointed leaders, agencies and organizations must adopt high quality evaluation designs tailored to meet three basic tenets: (1) different processes for policy formation and demonstration of accountability; (2) clear accountability expectations built into policies; (3)…

Twenty-nine recommendations were compiled from ideas generated by participants at the National Conference on Self- Determination, which was called by the United States Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, with over half the participants having disabilities of some kind. The participants came with different perspectives, but…

This position paper was written to answer a series of basic questions frequently asked about attrition and retention at Empire State College (ESC), New York. The questions addressed in the report are: (1) What is the attrition rate at ESC? (2) How does ESC's attrition rate compare to other colleges? (3) Who are the leavers? (4) When does attrition…

This paper describes and analyzes five conceptual orientations that have dominated the thinking of teacher educators in this century: (1) academic; (2) personal; (3) technological; (4) practical; and (5) critical/social. Loosely connected to views of teaching, learning, and/or learning to teach, these conceptual orientations represent sets of…

Conceptual guidelines for the design of new secondary school French second language programs are outlined, in response to the need for an instructional model to accommodate Alberta's increasing anglophone enrollment in French immersion programs. The first section chronicles the evolution of the concept of language and second language instructional…

Principals can effectively confront the problem of student drug abuse by working with public and private resources, school and community leaders, law enforcement, and treatment and counseling professionals. The most effective school drug education programs include a well-orchestrated K-12 curriculum. The "Just Say No" approach provides students…

This document begins with a paper titled "Accommodating for Greater Student Variance in Local Schools" by Jacqueline Thousand and Richard Villa, which identifies the fundamental characteristics of successful heterogeneous public schools and describes specific examples of educational and organizational practices that enable schools to accommodate…

An anti-bias, multicultural approach to family day care is presented in this book. Part A provides a rationale for such an approach; Part B outlines ideas for children's anti-bias, multicultural projects; Part C describes children's books and adult resources, and lists sources of hard-to-find items such as multicultural dolls and puppets.…

A task force report on education for gifted and talented pupils in Alberta, Canada, provides information on the need and status of such programs. Three main sources of information were tapped: written and oral submissions, the research literature, and the knowledge and experience of task force members. Findings are reported in six general areas:…

The inservice project described in this case study involved three role groups--leaders, consultants, and teachers--in a collaborative effort to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate an inservice program. The program combined strategies for teaching writing with strategies for teaching reading in the content areas, while maintaining the integrity…