Project HERMES is characterized by participation of publishers, industrial and public libraries, and national government, and by use of Teletex for both document ordering and delivery. Provision of three facilities (electronic document ordering and delivery, automatic document delivery, electronic mail) to pilot group of 60 organizations is…

Presents a sequence of assignments that provides an inductive method for preparing students to write a formal proposal by imitating the grant review and proposal process. Describes the process and results of peer review of the resulting proposals.(HTH)

An adjusted study program can provide relief to both problem students and their teachers. This article tells how, at minimal cost, improvement can be realized in student attitudes and achievement. (Editor)

Article discusses reforms for the preparation of teachers adopted by the Ohio State Board of Education which involved fundamental structural redesign of teacher education institutions. (Author/RK)

The United States Office of Education, in cooperation with the Alliance for Arts Education of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is administering a program of grants and contracts to encourage and assist the establishment of arts education programs. Guidelines for qualifying for a grant or contact are provided. (Author/RK)

As a strategic effort to advance the way schools address barriers to learning and psychosocial concerns, a consistent resource request has been for an example of a formal proposal for new directions (e.g., to present to a Superintendent, Student Support Director, Principal, Board, etc.). This report provides a draft of a design proposal that…

The Basic Education and Policy Support Activity (BEPS), a new five-year initiative sponsored by United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Center for Human Capacity Development, is designed to improve the quality, effectiveness, and access to formal and nonformal basic education. BEPS operates through both core funds and buy-ins…

This report reviews a proposal by the Riverside Community College District and the California Community College Chancellor's Office to convert the Norco Education Center to college status. The center is situated in the western section of Riverside County on 144 acres of land that had been occupied by the U.S. Navy until it was donated by the…

There is a concern that the field of art education will be imposed upon by programed instruction as a means of improving education thereby destroying individuality and the creative process. Article reassures such fears. (RK)

Described a course whose primary objective would be to give meaning and significance to individual lives by relating them to their collective history, a period from the early part of the twentieth century until the present, in which older people have lived.

Author projects increases in Florida's career employees and assesses their training needs. (Editor/RK)

Developing the winning proposal for a grant for a district is an enterprise that calls for creative thinking, planning, and the principles of grantsmanship. Describes the process of generating ideas for grant proposals and outlines techniques for writing the proposal. (Author/JN)

Teacher education was modified through an Innovative Program fostered by the University of Hawaii, whose staff, participating teachers, and student interns gathered at a summer workshop to implement the program. (RK)

The in-service effort described here was an Institute Program sponsored under Title IV, section 404, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to assist those school personnel faced with the myriad of problems occasioned by desegregation-integration activity. (Author/CB)