Triple T, a graduate project to educate (train) teacher trainers, allows participants to view the schools as a total system and gives educators a means of training people to change that system. It offers an opportunity to develop an alternative means for graduate education. An important element in this program is parity. While parity is more a…

These essays concentrate on the challenge that adult education faces in helping the urban poor develop meaningful paraprofessional careers in the human services. In one essay, the reformist approach to improving access to credentials is compared with the radical approach, which questions the validity of the credentials process as well as its…

Strategies and materials for reading instruction in adult basic education are covered, together with psychological and sociological characteristics of undereducated adults. Demonstration centers, curriculum materials programs, and related efforts are described. Such innovations as basal series for sequential reading skill development, programed…

With the loss of the original religious foundation of education and its increasing secularization, there has been a shift in definition of the teacher's role. In attempting to prepare persons for assuming the responsibilities of this role, education has relied on teacher training programs as external elements of control instead of the earlier…

Creating more differentiated, specialized work roles within teaching can be viewed as a response to a structural lag in school systems. Organizationally, differential staffing attempts to correct inefficient use of human resources by providing a more individualized program to maximize the use of teacher talent. This paper discusses aspects of…

A new professional discipline in the area of library media is emerging. This discipline does not merely represent a merger of the fields of librarianship and educational media; it is, rather, a new profession which is concerned with the design, development and analysis of instructional systems through the effective use of the most appropriate…

Beaverton is one of five school districts in the nation in the advanced stages of adopting a differentiated staffing program. This packet of three brochures describes their program. One report reflects the recommended job descriptions made for and by the staff of an intermediate school. Another report summarizes written reaction reports submitted…

The items in this instrument are designed to represent NSPRA Program Standards. The instrument is intended to serve as a basis for evaluating the extent to which an organization has made provision for organizing and conducting a formal public relations program as advocated by NSPRA. The standards adopted by NSPRA appear in boxes and the evaluation…

A composite profile of the current academic librarian is created based on a survey of the library literature of the 1980s. Specific topics considered include faculty versus academic status, evaluation criteria, tenure, research support, released time, pressure for and productivity in publishing, and librarians' attitudes toward faculty status.…

Compares two high school chemistry teachers with two elementary science teachers from case studies from the Exemplary Practice in Science and Mathematics Education Project in Australia. Concludes that both pedagogical and content knowledge are important ingredients for outstanding teaching. (CW)

An analysis of five dimensions of perceived stress (reward and recognition, time constraints, departmental influence, professional identity, and student interaction) among university faculty and their relationship to personal and professional characteristics is reported. (MSE)

The effects on female ministry students of a theology program that has a humanistic ideology and a professional role inclusive of women were examined. Although the female students valued the ideology, they found it of little use in legitimating themselves to clients or in working out their family and career plans. (Author/RM)

Summarizes 10 research projects that competed for the American Association of School Administrators'"Outstanding Research Presentation Award." Topics included early entry to kindergarten, Project SHAL, reading approaches, superintendents and school boards, preferred learning styles, gender bias, teacher evaluation, administrators' brain…

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) was created in 1987 to foster the success of the Baldrige National Quality Program. The award program, sponsored by the United States Department of Education, is a public-private partnership dedicated to improving national competitiveness. The National Institute of Standards and Technology…

A forum was conducted to give workplace education practitioners (WEPs) from across Canada the opportunity to have an initial discussion on WEP development and recognition. The forum included presentations by forum participants, forum discussions, and brainstorming sessions on the following and other topics: roles and working contexts of WEPs in…