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Smith, David C., Ed. – 1983
Professional teacher educators recognize that the body of knowledge about teaching and learning is today more substantive, consistent, and authoritative than ever before. It should also be acknowledged, however, that too little of that knowledge is incorporated into the preservice education of teachers. This volume, containing 12 papers presented…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Educational Improvement
Eggert, John D. – 1984
In developing a community-based adult literacy program, program planners need to consider who the program will serve, which strategies will best serve the target population of the program, and exactly how much stability and change are to be encouraged in the program. Once the planners of a community-based adult literacy program have answered these…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Community Education
Saint Petersburg Junior Coll., FL. – 1990
In 1989, the Focus on Access, Community, and Excellence in Teaching (FACET) Commission was created at St. Petersburg Junior College (SPJC) to develop recommendations to guide the college into the 21st century. The Commission's work plan included the definition of SPJC's educational standards; open hearings to solicit ideas from students, faculty,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Excellence in Education
Tobin, Judith, Ed.; Sharon, Donna, Ed. – 1984
The final paper in a series of 17 studies on new technologies in Canadian education, this report focuses on the issues raised throughout the earlier papers. It begins with a summary of the educational activities in the use of each technology in education, i.e., film, television, and videotape; radio and audiotape; computer technology;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education
Corbin, Lynda R., Ed. – Forum, 1990
Intended as a marketplace for the ideas and creativity of California community college faculty, this issue of "The Forum" contains not only articles on educational issues, but also short stories, poetry, and musical compositions. Included in this issue are the following: (1) "A Poet's Journey," by Nancy Edwards (poem); (2) "Toward an Effective…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Planning
Davis, Char W., Ed.; Small, LaVeta T., Ed. – Carolina View, 1986
Diverse issues in higher education are addressed in 19 articles. Titles and authors are as follows: "2001: Formulation of a Vision" (Kenneth L. Schwab); Trustees' Roles and Student Issues" (Davis Powers); "What Do Students and Faculty Talk about When They Eat Meals Together?" (John H. Schuh, Neal Edman); "Student…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Alcoholic Beverages, Black Students, College Housing
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1986
The challenge of equal educational opportunity in California and lessons from student affirmative action efforts are considered in a California Postsecondary Education Commission task force report, which also offers recommendations to promote high school and college preparation and educational opportunities for low income and minority students.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies
Caldwell, Melissa B. – 1984
This report summarizes a national invitational conference at which 36 representatives from business, industry, education, and government addressed the ways in which the issues of skill obsolescence, unemployment, illiteracy, displacement, and finance of career development affect adult learners, employers, and providers of education and training.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Development, Cooperative Planning
Altbach, Philip G.; Kelly, David H. – 1985
International and comparative trends in higher education since the mid-1960s throughout the world are addressed in two essays, and a bibliography of some 7,000 works of higher education worldwide is presented. The essays were commissioned by the European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES), a decentralized unit of UNESCO. Philip G. Altbach's…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction
Zelenak, Mel J. – 1984
Cooperation among the various suppliers of consumer education programs and materials is needed. Consumer education has many problems, e.g., lack of substantial support from the federal level and an audience limited mostly to underachievers. But the greatest problem is that consumer educators consider themselves to be home economists or business…
Descriptors: Business Education, Community Involvement, Consumer Education, Cooperative Planning
Hoyle, John R. – 1981
Most constructive critics of education agree that today's students are better than any in United States history. Yet problems like competency shortages and outmoded curricula remain. When schools were basically "socializers" (1885-1957), praise outstripped criticism--until 1957's Sputnik. In response, Congress initiated the National Aeronautics…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Cooperation, Community Education, Community Resources
ERS School Research Forum, 1983
The 10 essays and reports collected here offer various perspectives on elementary and secondary curricula most appropriate to a future of rapid technological change. Articles by the National Science Board, Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), Shirley McCune for the Education Commission of the States…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Curriculum, Educational Technology, Elementary School Curriculum
Worthington, Robert M. – 1981
Since 1971 dramatic changes have occurred in the field of adult education, especially in competency-based adult education and life skills/adult performance level curricula. In the 1080's, adult education will have reduced federal aid. Other changes may include a return of operational authority to the states and localities, a redefinition of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Continuing Education, Economic Development
Banks, James A. – 1981
This paper describes social problems that ethnic minorities are likely to experience in the 1980s and presents guidelines for shaping educational policies and programs that will help ethnic minority youths to experience more educational equity during the remainder of the decade. The minority groups discussed are those that are heavily concentrated…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Lynch, Edward J. – 1982
The largest public community college in Michigan, Macomb Community College (MCC), is located in the county that is most closely tied to Michigan's automobile industry. Because of recent high unemployment in the automobile industry, MCC must now expand its occupational offerings to meet the needs of displaced workers who must either gain new skills…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Employment Patterns, Federal Aid
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