A pilot version of a School Capacity Assessment (SCA) was developed in 2002 to assess the degree to which schools possess the potential to become high performing learning communities. The SCA was part of AELs School Capacity Development project. The pilot version of the SCA was intended to be administered to K-12 professional staff to assist them…

Despite their progress, most schools in Kansas' Quality Performance Accreditation (QPA) System fall short of the philosophy and practice envisioned by QPA. What has been accomplished and what remains to be done in QPA is detailed in this two-volume report. It was found that teachers working together were at the center of improvement. Schools where…

This paper explores issues of social context and interaction between digital and physical museum visitors, using as a focus of discussion the "City" project, itself set within a larger interdisciplinary project called "Equator." The paper looks at collaborative environments that span different media, in particular handheld…

The advent of welfare reform in the United States has provided new challenges in preparing adults to become economically self-sufficient. As one response to this challenge, the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) in Louisville, Kentucky began the Family Independence Initiative in 1997 to promote family literacy as one solution for assisting…

The pilot project in career education developed at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham for grades K-6 is described. It is centered around the concept of the USOE's School-Based Model. (MS)

The present study endeavored to ascertain responsesof children to some of the forms of behavior previously assessed by adults and considered to be within the range of children's experience. (Author)

The Knitting, Lace and Net Industry Training Board has developed a training innovation called fault diagnosis training. The entire training process concentrates on teaching based on the experiences of troubleshooters or any other employees whose main tasks involve fault diagnosis and rectification. (Author/DS)

Four "support" teachers are the stars of a program instituted in a desegregated Colorado district under the Emergency School Aid Act. (Editor)

Sixty prereaders were trained to discriminate the graphemes within words by having them assemble the words using only those graphemes that corresponded to the phonemic structure of the words. (Author)

A group of deaf students attending North High School, Oskosh, Wisconsin, need little or no prodding in their graphics arts class. The students have varying degrees of hearing and speech impairment but they are all hungry for education. (DS)

Project seeks out individual learning initiatives from the educational community for support, dissemination and adaption. Teachers are encouraged to share their ideas in the project newsletter, descriptive articles, exchange visits and periodic Saturday meetings. Resources multiply as educators organize and extend their ideas through such methods…

In order to facilitate more effective exchange between Canada and developing countries, a selective inventory of educational inventing in Canada has been compiled. A pilot survey produced a large number of educational innovations some of which were chosen for distribution in the inventory based on choices made by planning officers in developing…

Explains how administrators can plan and manage specially funded educational projects. (Author/DN)

The present study, designed as a pilot study to provide an empirical basis for modifying the PEP testing program, investigated the possibility that teachers could accurately evaluate learning progress without formal testing. (Author)

Guides for a systematic scientific approach to the appraisal of instructional materials. A related article is EA 503 988. (Author/MF)