Reviews research on four dimensions of temperament: positive emotionality/approach, fear, irritability/frustration, and attentional persistence. Applies knowledge of temperament to teachers' approaches to children's mastery motivation, fear of novelty, and ego-based anxiety. Argues that educators' training should include understanding of…

This paper, intended for teachers and administrators of K-12 and two-year college vocational education programs, provides instructions for writing grant proposals. Taking the reader through the proposal from start to finish, it outlines the contents and requirements in a grant proposal. Topics covered include the grant project, layout, contents of…

This handbook presents funding strategies and procedures and techniques that help in the preparation of a competent proposal. It summarizes ideas about proposal development, offering specific information to help proposal writers, provides examples from successful proposals, and presents tips to enhance successful funding. The text focuses on…

Article described an early retirement program designed to provide a creative alternative to the intracability caused by disenchanted or disabled teachers. (Author/RK)

A proposal toward improving competence in teaching remedial courses involved the creation of a particular kind of joint teaching assignment. The factors that should characterize the assignment were explained. (Author/RK)

Article focused on Women's Studies in the curriculum of higher education and examined the field in terms of rationale, program requirements and administration. (Author/RK)

The 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution offers a singular occasion for encouraging renewed scholarly interest in and public reflection about the principles and foundations of constitutional government. Toward that end, this publication presents categories and guidelines within each of the National Endowment for the Humanities…

Work being conducted by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research on the topic of effective secondary schools is described. The first section of this paper contains a summary of planning activities. A 5-year proposal for the Center on Effective Secondary Schools is described as well as an evaluation of that proposal. The second section presents…

The "needs basis" for obtaining funding for research and training grants from foundations is examined, and a model for developing research and training grants is proposed. The most important task is proving that there is an unmet need for the grant. The grant proposal should describe the unmet need, what is being done about the problem, and…

Article aimed at outlining a model for training humanities teachers. (RK)

Article proposed a framework of a new system of education and suggest some ways to get us from where we are now to being truly community-based and performance-oriented. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this article was to call attention and to give broader circulation to the discussion that centered around two topics at a meeting of the AACJC and Council of Universities and Colleges, specifically, scholarly research and cooperative action programs. (Author/RK)

Maintains that the prospectus for student personnel is to create a new environment for education, that student personnel workers in the junior college must become a proactive force rather than a reactive force and identify more closely with the academic role through decentralization of counseling and personnel services. (Author/HMV)

Article focused on the need for universities to turn their attention to those citizens who are older or retired and in need of opportunities to learn and contribute to society. A number of mature student programs were described. (RK)

A proposal from the governor of Pennsylvania for financing all levels of education through a National Education Trust Fund (NETF) that would operate as the present Federal Highway Trust Fund does on a revolving, self-liquidating basis with the cost of an individual's education repaid through a progressive education tax on income. (JT)