Focusing on the use of advanced technologies in classrooms to reshape the educational environment in which students learn, this report on Phase II of the Learning Tomorrow program contains brief descriptions of the most promising educational practices submitted by teachers in response to two nation-wide calls for Innovation in Practice. The report…

Collected in this textbook are approximately 30 brief articles and related materials concerning the traits, development, nurturing, and education of children from infancy through early childhood. While varied, material in each of the six sections generally centers on (1) characteristics, traits, and developmental issues in infancy, preschool and…

The fifth in a series of biannual surveys of educational research in Norway is presented. It covers 190 projects conducted in 1979 and 1980. Projects are grouped and cross-referenced according to the facets and subfacets of the European Documentation and Information System for Education Thesaurus (EUDISED). Identification numbers are followed by…

Findings of a 1983 survey of York Region (Ontario) elementary school music programs are presented. Staff committees from a sample of 28 schools responded to questions concerning music qualifications, budgets, music instruction timetables, student participation rates, program achievements, and useful resources. Among the findings were the…

Providing an historical and current account of Israel's early childhood care and educational system, this report depicts a state-supported system that has emphasized, through both home and classroom techniques, early intervention for the Jewish disadvantaged and handicapped child and family. Focusing on the goals, methods, and realities of child…

Dissatisfaction with schools results directly from the failure to explain, understand, and change educational practice within a critical theoretical perspective. School renewal and the potential for change must be based on critical inquiry--a technique which utilizes qualitative and quantitative empirical procedures as catalysts for formative,…

This article begins by drawing on literature to examine the various definitions of "technology" and "technique." Following a discussion of the origin of technology in education, the remaining sections of the article focus on the relationships and interaction between: (1) machines and technique; (2) science and technique; (3)…

Teaching laboratory science in a high school setting has never been easy. Time is available in short blocks; laboratory facilities are often quite limited. In most American high schools, teachers are responsible not only for preparation of their lesson plans, but also for ordering and preparing any materials to be used in a lab, with little or no…

A long experience in undergraduate vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) process design projects is shared in this paper. The VCM process design is shown to be fully compliant with ABET 2000 criteria by virtue of its abundance in chemical engineering principles, integration of interpersonal and interdisciplinary skills in design, safety, economics, and…

A new kind of public school -- the conservative alternative -- stresses discipline, achievement, and old-fashioned virtues. (Author)

The brochure provides an overview of the components of vocational assessment used in many Cooperative Services Model (CSM) projects in New York State. Federal and state requirements for vocational assessment for students with handicapping conditions, the purpose of vocational assessment, and a suggested vocational assessment model are discussed.…

There have been reports in the literature for several years that there are hundreds of independent neighborhood schools in existence, meeting the academic and social needs of Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Native American children who live primarily in urban areas all across this nation. They have long been an important expression of self-help…

This packet describes 12 promising practices identified in small and rural secondary schools in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and New York. Descriptions of the following innovations are presented: (1) two small school districts and local and state businesses that cooperated to provide a Mathematics Education for Gifted Secondary School Students…

This report supplements the final evaluation of the State Dissemination Grants Program (SDGP), a major initiative within the mission of the National Institute of Education to assist state educational agencies in implementing, strengthening, and institutionalizing dissemination services that improve educational practice and equity. The introduction…

This paper provides curriculum makers with an overview of developmental theory and relates the theory to instructional strategies. The section on socioemotional development addresses Erikson's eight ages of man, Kohlberg's stages of moral development, motivation and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Taylor's stage model of creative development, and…