Explores philosophies and practices of playwriting for young people, focusing on contemporary U.S. plays and projects that are aimed at improving the quality of theater for young audiences. Describes the New Generation Play Project. (PRA)

Notes that living creatively and fluidly often depends on an adult's ability to play. Describes a workshop designed to enhance awareness of the importance of play for adults and to provide imaging strategies helpful to therapists, teachers, and poets. (RS)

Presents eight teachers' accounts of professional growth activities designed to empower teachers to make choices for professional renewal according to their individual needs and interests. (RS)

Outlines the challenges of film and video production teachers. Describes "The Collaborative Film Project" of Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, which adapts the theater model of production training to film and video. Asserts that this project enables students to experience the organization, complexity, problem solving,…

Profiles GeVa Theatre's (a regional theater based in Rochester, New York) education programs, which offer student matinees to 5,000 students a year. (SR)

Describes how a graduate student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln uses his distance education courses to improve production on his family's farm. (EV)

Describes the course-credit system in the United States, the standard means of measuring academic work. Discusses how the system is a means of measuring the time spent on study and not the quality of work; since the 19th century, the course-credit system has been the major "currency" in American higher education and has proven quite…

Describes how telecourses may be educating more people than online courses do, and that the Internet provides opportunities for further growth and improvement in such courses. (EV)

Presents a dynamic method of supporting new faculty through a peer support group led by a facilitator. Group members participate in ongoing self-assessment, individualized goal setting, and activities that reflect the changing needs of the group. Explains the history and activities of one such group and the benefits for institutions considering…

In an effort to improve student services and increase student satisfaction, Carnegie Mellon University embarked on a mission to re-engineer its enrollment process. Discusses the steps involved and the lessons learned over the course of this transformation. (EV)

Redefines service learning as a valuable instructional tool that can be applied across a variety of disciplines and content areas. Presents a set of steps for using it and examples of successes and failures. (EV)

Describes features of a new system of compensation, classification, and performance appraisal for employees at Boston College developed by a performance management team at the college in association with outside consultants. (EV)

Describes Belfry 101, an arts partnership-in-education between the Belfry Theatre and both private and public senior secondary schools in and around Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Notes the partnership seeks to address questions of cultural literacy and its relationship to audience education in the professional arts. Addresses six…

Describes and evaluates the undergraduate pharmacy programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and New Zealand's University of Otago. The programs broadly represent "American" and "British" models of pharmacy education. Discusses their similarities and differences, including extensive in-course…

Describes how early childhood professionals can help young children avoid getting involved with violence or being exposed to violence. Presents information on the ACT [Adults and Children Together] Against Violence campaign, a national, multimedia campaign and a community-based training program developed in partnership by the National Association…