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Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2005
The rising cost of college textbooks has recently become a topic of intense public debate. It is perceived as a significant barrier to college attendance, and an assortment of legislative remedies has been proposed. This position paper of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges explains that profit is just one of a complex series of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Community Colleges, Integrity, Position Papers
Kowalski, Theodore J. – 2003
This book addresses career-related questions commonly asked by students beginning the study of school administration. As an introductory text, it presents a broad overview of school administration as a specialized field of study and as an applied field of professional practice. Special attention is given to describing the social, political, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education
Lauglo, Jon – 2003
This volume provides an overview of some of the outstanding features of the work of the Norwegian sociologist and comparative educationist, Jon Lauglo. After an introduction, "'It Ain't Necessarily So!': Theories and Observations in Jon Lauglo's World of Education and Training" (Se-Yung Lim and Klaus Schaack), essays and studies are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Career Choice, Decentralization
Ward, Ben, Ed. – American Language Review, 2000
The six issues of this journal cover a variety of topics of interest to the second language professional. Among the topics covered are the following: "virtual" classrooms, staff development, traveling with students, learner self-testing, advice on how to find a job on the Web, online pronunciation aids, language teaching strategies for deaf…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Class Activities
Alghali, A.M.; Turay, Edward D.A.; Thompson, Ekundayo J.D.; Kandeh, Joseph B.A. – Commonwealth of Learning, 2005
The Sierra Leone National Education Master Plan 1997-2006 deals with all aspects of the formal and non-formal sectors of the education system, providing support for basic education, education for the physically challenged, disadvantaged and gifted learners, women and girls' education, technical/vocational and science education, tertiary education,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Equal Education, Special Needs Students, Distance Education
Readings, Bill – 1996
Historically, in Europe and North America, the university has served as the primary institutional reservoir of national culture. This book examines contemporary shifts in the function of the "University" as the inculcator within the nation-state of the concept of national culture, arguing that as the nation-state has lost its power as…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Cultural Influences, Culture
Donato, Ruben – 1997
Challenging conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims of their educational fates, this book examines the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in a California community "Brownfield." It looks at responses of a predominantly White school system and community to the growing number of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Activism, Bilingual Education, Case Studies
McLaren, Peter – 1998
This book describes one individual's reinvention as an educator, from a liberal humanist to an advocate of critical pedogogy. It examines relationships between schooling, the wider social relations that inform it, and historically constructed needs and competencies that students bring to schools, focusing on the social conditions of disaffected…
Descriptors: Black Students, Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth
Cassara, Beverly Benner, Ed. – 1995
This book contains the following papers about development/delivery of adult education through the efforts of multinational and bilateral government donors and the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE): "Preface" (Beverly Benner Cassara); "Introduction: Adult Education and Democracy" (Francisco Vio Grossi);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Role, Cooperative Planning, Democracy
Demetrion, George – 2000
"Contested Ground: Performance Accountability in Adult Basic Education" (ABE) is one of the most important books on adult literacy policy at the turn of the century. In it, Juliet Merrifield examines the critical issues of policy, practice, and theory with which the field is currently consumed. She and her colleagues maintain that the concept of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
National Indian Education Association, Arlington, VA. – 2001
This document outlines the educational programs and issues affecting American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students in early childhood, K-12, adult, and postsecondary education at the start of the 107th Congress (2001). The national American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education agenda requires the formal…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians
Johnson, Jean; Duffett, Ann – 2003
This report presents findings on a series of surveys conducted from 1998 through 2002. The findings: (1) Parents, teachers, and students believe that setting standards and enforcing them promotes learning; (2) standards and promotion policies have changed in recent years, and attitudes about local schools have improved; (3) the majority of parents…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Attitude Measures, Basic Skills
Walford, Geoffrey – 2000
This paper examines effects of public funding for religious and private schools in the Netherlands and England over the last century. These two countries were chosen because both have religious schools fully funded by the state. The paper shows that state funding has disadvantages and advantages. Funding has been associated with considerable, yet…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Porch, Stephanie; Protheroe, Nancy – 2003
The context of school district governance is changing and becoming more complex. The individual roles of school board members and superintendents, and the relationship between school board members and superintendents are becoming increasingly important in light of the recent mandates for high student achievement. This brief looks at issues…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Office of the Deputy Secretary (ED), Washington, DC. – 2003
This document contains the second year of the U.S. Department of Education's 2002-07 Strategic Plan. The plan outlines the strategies and actions the department will undertake to meet its goals, and it defines the measures and targets the department will use to determine success of the plan. Detailed are the six goals, along with their objectives,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adult Education
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