This document was designed for use by professionals concerned with bilingual and multicultural education. It is divided into three sections. The first encompasses various aspects of teaching methodology and materials, history and background, and evaluation problems. Part 2 focuses on the Texas law governing bilingual/multicultural education…

Utah is a member of a nine-state consortium to study competency-based teacher education and certification programs. This paper presents an overview of the nationwide movement for competency-based teacher education, followed by a description of the situation in Utah. The State Board of Education is making an effort through the Teacher Education and…

This document reports the names of the senators, representatives, and other elected officials of the 94th Congress, their states and congressional districts, and each institution of higher education located therein. It includes all institutions meeting at least one of the criteria enumerated below, including new schools certified by the…

This booklet provides members of the National Education Association (NEA) with background information about accreditation and certification so that they can take appropriate action to change teacher education. Part one presents an overview of accreditation and certification in teacher education. Section one of this part contains information on the…

This paper presents a historical overview of teacher education in America. It begins with a description of normal schools, whose function was closely tied to the church (e.g., teaching people to read the Bible). Then it covers the educational revival in the 19th century which established free public schools. James Carter, Samuel Hall, and Horace…

This report reviews the issues raised in revising the existing Texas child care licensing statute. The brief final report gives an overview of the history of the Day Care Licensing Review Project. Position papers concerning the major issues involved in a consideration of child care regulation in Texas form the bulk of this report and include: (1)…

The purpose of this nine-chapter book is to (a) ferret out ideas and recommendations for revitalizing and reconceptualizing inservice education, and (b) replicate or adapt the Workshop on Reconceptualizing Inservice Education for which the first seven chapters were written. Chapter 1 examines the historical forces which have developed and now…

This document describes the Pennsylvania Competency-Based Teacher Education (PaCBTE) program and the Pennsylvania Competency-Assessment Certification (PaCAC) program and their relationship to teacher certification. The PaCBTE program is described as the state department of education's effort to assist colleges and universities in the transition to…

The New York State High School Equivalency Testing Program is for adult residents of the state who have not completed their high school education in the regular manner. An adult who obtains satisfactory scores on the High School Level tests of General Educational Development (GED) Tests is eligible to receive a New York State high school…

Project Teacher Excellence for Economically Deprived and Culturally Differentiated Americans provides for the search for Mexican-Americans living in economically deprived areas of the Southwest who have potential ability but who would not go to college without financial aid. Those identified and selected for aid are admitted to Our Lady of the…

A survey of state laws and regulations revealed that of 46 responding states and the District of Columbia, 27 states provide physical activities to children with various handicapping conditions. Findings indicated that provisions vary from state to state and do not always cover all aspects of adapted physical education or all children with…

This report gives the position of the task force regarding teacher education and certification in Texas, recommendations of directions for the future, and proposed standards for institutional approval for both undergraduate and graduate levels of teacher education. The task force recommends that the state board of education: (a) issue a statement…

The objective of the study was to identify and analyze practices and procedures, rules and regulations, and public laws which hinder or prevent inmate training and postrelease employment and to recommend necessary modifications. Members of the project staff reviewed the literature on the subject and sought information and advice from consultants…

This paper presents the description and several applications of a model which can be used to determine how long a researcher must wait for the return of completed mail questionnaires to be sure the data collected reflect the true values of the parameters of interest. This model proposes to fit two linear time trend lines to a set of mailed…

The data collected on Form Q-1 are used to report all noncredit public service offerings both on and off campus which qualify for the Continuing Education Unit (CEU). Seven standards must be met before CEU can be awarded: (1) a planned response to a specific educational need, (2) stated objectives and rationale, (3) sequentially ordered content,…