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Bruder, Isabelle – Electronic Learning, 1988
Presents results of the annual survey of state education departments, which is conducted to provide an assessment of interest in and commitment to educational computing in elementary and secondary schools. Highlights include state funding; requirements for computer courses; hardware and software policies; additional technology usage; and teacher…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Educational Technology
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Paulson, Pamela – Arts Education Policy Review, 1993
Asserts that dance should be included as an integral and basic part of the school curriculum. Presents a case study of how dance educators and others worked to include dance in the K-12 Minnesota curriculum guide. Discusses change strategies and attitudes of teachers and administrators toward the effort. (CFR)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Art Teachers, Change Agents, Change Strategies
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Johnson, Howard G. – Journal of Geography, 1995
Maintains that the National Geography Standards provide university geographers opportunities in the areas of program assessment and development. Describes a process that can strengthen programs and maintains that it will enhance geography's role in the preservice education curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Departments, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Butterfield, Barbara S.; And Others – CUPA Journal, 1995
An incentive program that rewards and encourages desirable work traits can improve college or university effectiveness, customer satisfaction, and employee morale without excessive cost. Processes needed, benefits to the institution, costs, program design, challenges to successful implementation, and organizational communication needs are…
Descriptors: College Administration, Compensation (Remuneration), Departments, Higher Education
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Wyche, Karen Fraser; Graves, Sherryl Browne – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1992
Reviews how ethnicity, race, and gender affect women's professional participation in academia, particularly in psychology departments. Examines minority women's inclusion at undergraduate, graduate, job entry, and senior level positions within academic psychology; and reviews economic and social-psychological processes that unjustly serve as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Rank (Professional), Career Choice
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Roulet, Eddy – Higher Education Management, 1994
Main features of the cyclical procedure used by the University of Geneva (Switzerland) to evaluate 75 teaching and research units (TRUs) over a 6-year cycle are that it covers teaching, research, and services simultaneously and combines self-evaluation, peer assessment, and use of a database on TRU resources and achievements. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Instruction, Databases, Departments
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Lee, Lina; Debevec, Sylvie – Foreign Language Annals, 1999
Describes a team teaching program for first-year French and Spanish courses at the Plattsburgh State University of New York. Goals were to (1) facilitate pedagogical cooperation between college foreign language and literature faculty and local middle and high school students; (2) improve articulation between secondary and postsecondary foreign…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Class Size, College School Cooperation, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Byrnes, Heidi; Kleinhenz, Christopher; Mignolo, Walter; Pratt, Mary Louise; Vieira, Nelson; James, Dorothy – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Five brief essays are presented in response to an earlier article on leadership in college foreign-language departments. They address issues of curriculum redesign, pedagogical change, the nature of language teaching, the professional identity of language teachers, the role of professional organizations, and the traditional departmental model. A…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Development
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Anderson, Melissa S.; And Others – Journal of Higher Education, 1994
A study of 1,261 doctoral students in chemistry, civil engineering, microbiology, and sociology investigated student experiences with research, employment, and personal misconduct in academic departments, including the effects of departmental structure, department climate, and academic discipline. No disciplinary differences were found, but…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Comparative Analysis
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Mollo, Arlene Black – Arts Education Policy Review, 1996
Maintains that a more thorough understanding of the complex relationship between state government and local schools would greatly benefit arts educators. Presents an examination of the structure of this relationship in Massachusetts as a model. Examines government funding, staffing, delegation of powers, and various shared responsibilities. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Administration, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
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Sommer, Robert – Change, 1999
The head of a research university studio art program outlines the potential benefits and challenges associated with maintaining a first-rate program. Problems include high costs, a faculty merit review system, lack of faculty socialization to university norms or participation in campus affairs, lack of leadership incentives, a patronage mentality,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Art History, Change Strategies, Department Heads
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Abdullah, Maria; Jacobs, George – TESL-EJ, 2004
This article describes a four-step programme designed to promote the use of cooperative learning among teachers at a Singapore primary school. In the initial step in the programme, teachers at the school were asked if they would like to participate in the programme. Six came forward. In the second step, an outside consultant did a brief workshop…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Rose, James – Economics of Education Review, 1985
Describes the impact in Colorado of the shift from categorical federal aid to block grants under the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Covers Colorado education's demographic, socioeconomic, and political context; variations in program impact among school districts; the shift's effects on redistribution of federal aid; and selected…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Demography, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1985
The responses of 1,866 faculty are reported on trends in staffing, funding, course offerings and enrollments, majors, personnel policy, library holdings, and supplies and equipment in their departments. (MSE)
Descriptors: Budgets, College Faculty, Degree Requirements, Departments
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Egnor, David – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1996
Reviews the major substantive amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act being proposed by the U.S. Senate, including changes in state and local educational agency eligibility; least restrictive environment; private school placement; evaluations, reevaluations, and Individualized Education Programs; discipline procedures;…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Discipline, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
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