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Seline, Richard – Community College Journal, 2006
Five trends are emerging that will not only change the role of human capital in the United States but will also challenge the legacy system of workforce development, skills and competency-focused institutions, and assuredly, community colleges. Workforce investment boards, for example, are currently geographically constrained in environments that…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Labor Force Development, Competition, Science and Society
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Shroyer, M. Gail; Wright, Emmett L.; Ramey-Gassert, Linda – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1996
Details a collaborative reform effort between a school district and a university that includes an elementary teacher preparation program with an emphasis on science, mathematics, and technology. Contains 48 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
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Matsumura, Molleen – Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 1999
Presents the results of two newspaper polls conducted in Kansas concerning the teaching of evolution. Finds that the majority of the state's citizens do think that evolution should be taught in the public schools. (WRM)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Creationism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evolution
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Finson, Kevin D.; Enochs, Larry G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
Reports on student attitudes toward science-technology-society (STS) after visiting a science-technology museum and considers what variable factors of the visitation impacted these attitudes. Results indicated that significant differences in attitudes were present between visiting and nonvisiting students and between grade levels. (TW)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Field Trips, Grade 6