Criticizes America 2000 as an archaic document full of facile slogans rather than substantive reform strategies. (SK)

Robinson and Stern describe the Management Training Program introduced by the U.S. Air Force in postwar Japan and its effect on Japanese industry. Roberts compares it with U.S. Training within Industries. Umetani comments that the discussion would have been more convincing had its relationship with other Japanese training programs been addressed.…

Discusses how the Corporation for National Service and its programs have come under fire for being more political than catalytic, being simultaneously too centralized and too decentralized, and pursuing too many unclear goals. Identifies discontinuities between the rhetoric and the reality of reinvention and draws lessons for public-sector reform.…

Mix It Up--founded by Teaching Tolerance, Tolerance.org and the Study Circles Resource Center--is a national program that encourages young people to challenge social boundaries and ostracism. To date, more than 2 million students in almost 7,000 schools have taken part in various Mix It Up programs, including the annual National Mix It Up at Lunch…

The Mission of the National Writing Project (NWP) is to improve writing and learning in the nation's schools. Through its professional development model, the National Writing Project recognizes the primary importance of teacher knowledge, expertise, and leadership. This annual report features seven educators from urban, rural, and suburban…

The "CASE" (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Professor of the Year program recognizes outstanding professors for their dedication to teaching, commitment to students, and innovative instructional methods. It is the only national program to recognize college and university professors for their teaching skills. Three marketing…

Fieldwork forms a substantial part of the International Geography Olympiad (IGEO) both in terms of time and in the nature of the experience in which participants get a chance to explore the "real world" of the host country. Fieldwork offers young geographers an excellent opportunity to explore the regional and local geography of the host…

Just within the past two decades, there has been a proliferation of a variety of literature, both academic and popular, regarding the underachievement and underrepresentation of African American males in U.S. schools. According to the literature, African American males have been disproportionately placed in special education classrooms and…

Education is compulsory for all children in Ireland from the ages of six to sixteen, or until students have completed three years of second level education. At primary level, a range of assessment approaches are recommended including teacher observation, questioning and discussion, samples of children's work, portfolios, projects, tasks and tests,…

Guidelines for the development of national assessment in the Nine-Year Basic School (2000) were designed by the Expert Counselling Committee for the development of national assessment in the Nine-Year Basic School Program founded in 1999. National assessment in nine-year basic schools was carried out for the first time in the academic year…

The American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) Plus 50 Initiative (2008-2011), funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, was created to build the capacity of community colleges nationwide to develop programming that engages the plus 50 learner. The Initiative supported a pilot group of 13 two-year institutions to develop or expand college…

This preliminary guide is designed to help AmeriCorps and other national service programs plan and deliver effective early childhood services. The guide can also be used in community-based planning to incorporate national service organizations in early childhood program initiatives. Following an overview of the roles that AmeriCorps and other…

This paper describes the current state of secondary school computer literacy instruction in the Swiss canton of Vaud and the activities of a nationwide coordinating group concerned with the use of computers in Swiss secondary education. Information is presented on the requirements for instituting computer literacy instruction in Vaud, the types of…

Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) is proposed as a means of expanding and improving library services in Nigeria. (PF)

This paper is an introductory discussion of industrial training, artificial intelligence (AI), and AI applications in training, prepared in the context of the United Kingdom Training Commission (TC) program. Following an outline of the activities and aims of the program, individual sections describe perspectives on: (1) training needs, including…