Discusses Alaska's Centralized Correspondence Studies program which offers arts electives to the state's rural, isolated, secondary students. Examples of student art work and poetry are included. (SJL)

This paper explains a college-level journalistic writing project based in Kotzebue, Alaska (called Chukchi News and Information Service) which publishes primarily Eskimo, Indian and Aleut student writing in newspapers and magazines throughout Alaska. The first part of the paper discusses the philosophical underpinnings of developing a publishing…

Describes a pilot program in Alaska (in six remote rural schools from highly diversified regions) that attempted to train high school teachers to teach journalism as they established classes to produce school newspapers as a unit in an English class. (SR)

Data for this study were gathered from primary sources (interviews, government records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and tapes of programs), as well as secondary sources including the two reports "The Action Study of Educational Uses of Satellite Communications in Remote Alaskan Villages" and "The Educational Satellite…

Finds most successful students in University of Alaska-Fairbanks rural field-based teacher-education program over a three-year period show worst performance when conventional standards for course completion are applied. Reviews implications for innovation and change in higher education. (NEC)

Communications satellite technology has for the first time given Alaska the capacity to deliver television broadcasts to the state's isolated regions. The ATS-6 Health/Education Telecommunications Experiment has given the state an opportunity to: (1) acquire experience with new forms of technology; (2) involve the state's culturally diverse…

An overview is provided of the University of Alaska's Rural Education Division, which was created in 1975 in the wake of the discovery of oil on the North Slope, the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and the recognition of the need for more access to higher education by native and other rural residents. Introductory material…

Designed to help Alaskan Native communities and organizations, State and Federal officials, citizens of Alaska, and professional educators in dealing with changing educational situations, the report provides a reliable and succinct history of Alaskan education from the time of the area's purchase from Russia in 1867. One of the major problems in…

Designed to celebrate rural teachers' inventiveness and stimulate teacher thinking about opportunities that small schools offer, this booklet is a collection of ideas and resources that have worked in specific Alaska school settings. An introductory chapter challenges teachers to use small size to advantage. Chapter 2 shows what rural teachers are…

The result of 18 months' work, this guide to developing and implementing a competency based curriculum for Alaska's North Slope Borough School District is designed to provide personnel in other rural Alaskan districts with information, materials, and planning procedures that can be replicated and/or adapted. Each portion of the North Slope project…

In fiscal year 1983 nearly 1,500 Alaskan children under the age of 6 received Head Start services from a total of 262 staff members--149 of whom were classroom personnel--and 1,473 volunteers. Over 700 Head Start children received medical screening, and more than 100 needed and received medical treatment through Head Start. Over 800 Head Start…

The Eighth Annual Bilingual/Multicultural Education Conference, sponsored by the Alaska State Department of Education and supported by 36 additional organizations and school districts, was a major activity of the department in providing training assistance to all persons involved in bilingual-bicultural education programs in Alaska. The conference…

During the first phase of this project, from June 1964 to November 1965, the effectiveness and feasibility of centralized training in offsetting the employment problems of rural Alaska were tested. Recruitment was handled through mail contacts with village councils and subsequent recruitment trips to the villages. Training at a state vocational…

Key points of presentations are captured in this report of a conference which addressed issues of concern to educators in Alaska's small schools. A total of 119 presentations are briefly summarized. Contents are organized under five headings: effective leadership strategies, curriculum and instruction, computers and telecommunication, assessment,…