To improve its reading program, a Pennsylvania district involved its teachers in retaining consultants who would work collaboratively with them. This model has been used in each of four elementary schools for the past seven years. The district allocates $1,800 per school for consultants, instructional materials, and substitutes who release…

Describes the reading program at Lafayette Township Elementary School in Sussex County, New Jersey, one of several designated by the International Reading Association as exemplary. (SR)

Describes the reading program at Pope Elementary School on Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, one of several school reading programs recognized by the International Reading Association as exemplary. (SR)

Describes a problem-based learning strategy which helps train principals for an increasingly demanding job. Conceptualizes problem-based learning; provides a rationale for this strategy; and uses a real example from a course in problem-based learning taught at the University of Georgia. (RS)

Discusses national teacher certification efforts by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). Notes responses from governors, school districts, and in educational journals, and mentions three booklets available from NBPTS headquarters. (SR)

Describes the School of Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University and its recent successful effort to include a focus on international education by establishing a new PhD joint program with Bangkok University. (SR)

Explains that despite recent objections to standardized testing, a repeated call for national standards continues, which, in turn, has given rise to the (apparently fictional) Humane Assessment Coalition (HAC). Uses subtle satire to outline the HAC's theoretical posture and presents a hands-on case study that demonstrates the organization's…

Reports classroom observations of Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) as implemented in a southern California elementary school. Discusses the complex set of requirements that curriculum integration must meet to fulfill its considerable promise. (RS)

Suggests that by linking storytelling with children's garden programs, public gardens may serve to educate children about the processes that underlie and interweave diverse cultures' seasonal traditions. These ideas have been developed and tried in programs since 1988 at San Francisco's Strybing Arboretum's Children's Garden. (LZ)

Describes the Older Adults Network of the International Council for Adult Education and its efforts to identify educational needs common to older adults worldwide. Offers brief descriptions of 12 exemplary programs funded by the network, which focus on such concerns as literacy, retirement, social action, vocational training, and cultural…

Describes how three groups of educators (in a medical school, a psychology department, and a journalism school) are helping instructors and students to recognize, manage, and use ignorance to promote learning. (SR)

Describes a performance art project conceived and carried out over several weeks with ninth grade students at San Francisco School of the Arts, relocated in a building without an equipped theater space. (SR)

Presents annotations of 13 conference papers, journal articles, and other documents from the ERIC database (published between 1988 and 1991) that discuss general aspects of writing across the curriculum and writing to learn, as well as strengths and weaknesses of specific programs. (RS)

The importance of investigating the sun's interior is discussed. One method for probing the interiors of some pulsating stars is described. The relationship between the sun's solar oscillation frequencies and the sun's solar cycles is discussed. A project to place six instruments around the world to observe the sun's oscillations (GONG) is…

Identifies a program design sequence for establishing a faculty mentoring program. Outlines Western Carolina University's New Faculty Mentoring Program: goals, eligibility, key features, benefits, mentor's roles, participant's responsibilities, what has been learned, and on-going issues. (SR)