The California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) recognizes the importance of educational centers as a cost-effective means for meeting increased student demand. Educational centers are an economical way of serving a region's educational needs because they often involve collaboration and shared facility use with high schools, university…

With most parents now in the workforce, the demand for high-quality out-of-school time (OST) opportunities for children and youth continues to grow across the country. An estimated 14.3 million children and youth return each day to an empty home unsupervised, and with no opportunities to constructively occupy their time. By building strong,…

American public schools are growing increasingly diverse and are in need of refining practices to meet the needs of all students. Annually new groups of refugees are resettled in the United States and their children enroll in public schools. Educating refugees who may have experienced an adverse past such as war, trauma, oppression, persecution,…

This article offers a critical reflection upon underlying theoretical and philosophical inclinations which manifest themselves through the type of courses introduced in higher education institutions to meet what is perceived to be students' educational needs. Given the fact that this article seeks to promote an understanding of the nature of…

Retention rates and stress levels of beginning teachers are of concern. Well-planned induction programs can assist beginning teachers to make the transition successfully into the profession, which may increase retention rates. This qualitative, year-long study aims to explore and describe the induction experiences of eight beginning teachers as…

Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the teaching and assessment strategies for an organisation-centred curriculum. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a case study. Data were collected from interviews and a focus group with worker-learners enrolled in a Graduate Certificate in Education (Educational Leadership) course. Findings: The…

Recommendations are made in this discussion concerning priorities for action by early childhood educators, and the history of early childhood education is selectively reviewed to identify patterns supporting these recommendations. It is argued that the experiences of educational pioneers reveal the need to work for program funding from a variety…

The author explains why she disagrees with the International Word Processing Association statement that "shorthand skill is becoming an archaic job requirement." (BP)

Discusses the formation of new programs aimed at expanding the level of alcohol education and manpower training while making these activities more responsive to local and area requirements. (BD)

Sales, service, and production activity training programs might benefit from utilizing the matrixed reference piece, an inexpensive information and reference organizer well adapted to comparative procedural concepts. (Author/LH)

If business data process education is to meet the needs of industry, it is imperative that existing professional business education associations provide strong leadership in such areas as funding, establishing guidelines, guiding teacher education, and providing a method of communicating information nationally. (Author/BP)

The digest examines issues related to curricula for gifted and talented students. Schools should be prepared to meet the special needs of this population in a variety of ways, including identifying their learning needs, making equipment and resources available, providing for flexible progression through learning experiences and grades, and…

The report notes the existence of secondary programing for learning disabled students of widely divergent goals, emphases, organization, and intervention strategies. They propose seven major programing goals which constitute a holistic approach. Each goal is considered in terms of obstacles to its implementation and suggestions for intervention:…

The president of the Association for Field Services in Teacher Education looks ahead and projects the direction of the organization for the future. (HMD)

An international symposium dealing with functional literacy in the context of adult education held in West Berlin in August, 1973, concerned the government's role in establishing and financially supporting programs, the coordination of programs, institutional roles, and the identification of adult learning needs. Twenty-nine conclusions were…