Describes the planning, leadership, and organizational strategies that formed the basis for the Houston School District's efforts to implement standards-based reform. Identifies some reform initiatives that need to be expanded, such as new uses of online instruction and new approaches to the recruitment and training of teachers. (PKP)

Doubts among some teacher educators about progress toward reforming teacher education and problems in recruiting members of minority groups to the teaching profession are discussed. The establishment of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is described. (MLW)

Consists of nine articles discussing the necessary characteristics of agriculture teachers of the future. Includes viewpoints from both experienced and beginning teachers. Topics include certification, recruitment, and the balance between activities and classroom instruction. (CH)

Comprehensive reform in the ways teachers are recruited, trained, evaluated, and rewarded is required if the status of the teaching profession and the present quality of education is to be improved. A new career structure, simplification of certification, and reconceptualization of the teaching role are possible remedies. (KH)

Explores how competency tests and other measures can be used to improve the quality of teaching in the current context of teacher preparation. Proposes a teacher education model aimed at early motivation toward teaching careers, stronger subject-matter competence, and master's degree level preparation. (GC)

Proposed federal legislation is aimed at improving pre-college science and mathematics instruction, discovering factors important in shaping perceptions of science/mathematics in pre-school children (particularly television), and federal/university financial support for new science/engineering faculty members, and allowing government labs to…

This article reviews reasons for official reform of teacher training in Luxembourg. Includes information about past laws, elaborates on aspects of teacher education that need further attention, and concludes with proposals for actions that meet these needs. (AEM)

Presidents and chancellors from all sectors of higher education discussed how they might help in the improvement of the nation's schools. Commitments to speaking out for education, school collaboration on the attractiveness of teaching as a career, teacher preparation improvement, and minority teacher recruitment are discussed. (MLW)

Since 1979, the Education Information Network in the European Community (EURYDICE) has been conducting seminars designed to improve understanding of the different educational systems of the member states and to facilitate network cooperation. The papers in this document were given by speakers both from the Irish Department of Education and other…

The United Republic of Tanzania was perhaps the first African country to give urgent attention to adult literacy. One of the immediate results of educating adults was to make them insist that schooling be provided for their children. The literacy campaign that started in 1971 reduced the 1969 illiteracy rate of 69 percent to 9.6 percent in 1986.…

Due to rapid social changes, the government of the Republic of China instituted in 1979 the "Teacher Education Statute," which incorporated the training of both elementary and secondary school teachers. This was followed by legislation in the form of bylaws that prescribed the ways and means of the program's implementation. Revision of…

One of the reasons for the rapid advancement of literacy activities in Ethiopia is that different nationalities learn in their own mother tongues in their own cultures. The literacy rate before the 1974 revolution was 7 percent. The 1990 literacy rate is 75 percent. Literacy instructors in the current literacy campaign do more than instruct…