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Building a Productive Partnership: A Meeting for Senior Executives from Community Colleges, Institutes of Technology and Federal Government Departments (September 25-26, 2001). Synopsis.
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Association of Canadian Community Colleges. – 2001
This document discusses how in September 2001, 60 college presidents and 40 senior federal officials met in Ottawa, Canada to discuss different ways to improve Canada's educational system. The meeting was planned in order to strengthen Canada's ability to compete with other nations in the global market. The following are the three main goals of…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Community Colleges, Developmental Stages, Developmental Studies Programs
Adolescence and Stress. Report of an NIMH Conference on Research Directions for Understanding Stress Reactions in Adolescence (Rockville, Maryland, September 15-17, 1980).
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Moore, Charlotte Dickinson, Ed. – 1981
This volume, a report of a National Institute of Mental Health Conference, presents a synopsis of the informal presentations and discussions along with a summary narrative and quotations from each of the three sessions. The first section of the book deals with adolescent personality, socioemotional, biological, and cognitive development. The…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Coping
Curriculum for Early Childhood Education: A Report of a Workshop Held at the Kenya Institute of Education (July 16 to August 3, 1979). Volume 1.
German Foundation for International Development, Bonn (West Germany). – 1980
A workshop on "Curriculum for Early Childhood Education," held in the summer of 1979 at the Kenya Institute of Education, aimed to familiarize participants with the problems facing early childhood education in Africa. Specific workshop objectives were (1) to familiarize participants with the psychological, social, political, and economic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Computation, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
The Lipman Papers: Appropriate Programs for Four-Year-Olds. Barbara K. Lipman Early Childhood Research Institute Symposium (1st, Memphis, Tennessee, May 22-23, 1987).
Woolner, Rosestelle B., Ed. – 1987
Speakers at the Lipman Research Institute's inaugural symposium examined research and issues related to appropriate programs for 4-year-olds. David Weikart described the Perry Preschool Project, an ongoing study begun in 1962 of 123 black youths at risk of failing, and the High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Study. Jane Stallings covered short-term…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Conferences
A Research Agenda for the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience: Report on the Social Science Research Council's Conference on the National Longitudinal Surveys, October, 1977. Parts I to IV.
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Social Science Research Council, Washington, DC. Center for Coordination of Research on Social Indicators. – 1978
This report of the Social Science Research Council's Conference on the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience (NLS) begins with a description of the rationale and background for the conference. In the first of four parts, the conference objectives are stated: (1) review previous research based on the National Longitudinal Surveys…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Blacks, Career Change, Child Rearing