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Peer reviewedShepherd, Ron – Clearing House, 1997
Describes the development and implementation of a mandatory training program for individuals wishing to substitute teach in a particular school system. Describes how this program tries to bring out into the open both the school system's and the prospective substitute teachers' assumptions about the role of the substitute, the classroom teacher,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, School Districts, School Role
Peer reviewedWallace, Ray – Clearing House, 1997
Discusses the paucity of useful evaluation measures that administrators making decisions about selective college admissions have to work with. Argues that the implementation of national testing would allow for more formative assessment of college applicants and would encourage increased classroom instruction with a formative focus at the secondary…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Applicants, Formative Evaluation
Peer reviewedHobson, Eric H. – Clearing House, 1997
Presents brief annotations of 20 books and journal articles (published between 1967 and 1997) identified by the contributors to this themed issue as useful for the work they present in this issue. (SR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation
Peer reviewedDraper, Roni Jo – Clearing House, 1997
Describes a jigsaw puzzle activity, a two-part cooperative learning activity useful at any level of mathematics instruction, intended to teach students to become "strategic readers" of their mathematics textbooks. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMc Kenzie, Barbara K.; Mims, Nancy G. – Clearing House, 1996
Reports results of a study identifying effective behaviors for preventing technology accidents, and ineffective behaviors that cause technology accidents in the schools. Offers technology use guidelines for principals and for school media specialists to promote the safe use of technology. (SR)
Descriptors: Educational Media, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers
Peer reviewedKrebs, Sylvia H. – Clearing House, 1996
Discusses how the cult of examinations continues to affect both teachers and students in China, and concludes that any serious reform of Chinese education depends on thoroughly rethinking the role of examinations in learning. (SR)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedO'Dell, Frank L.; And Others – Clearing House, 1996
Reports on a 6-year study and project in Ohio that visited schools to evaluate their guidance programs, implemented revitalization ideas into 10 programs, and evaluated and disseminated the results. Presents eight essential actions for revitalizing guidance programs. (SR)
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidance Programs
Peer reviewedBerry, Robert Q., III – Clearing House, 2003
Posits that African American students receive mathematics instruction that is not consistent with mathematics education reform; furthermore, the mathematics instruction that many African American students receive is in opposition to their cultural styles and learning preferences. Suggests that if African American students receive mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Black Students, Cognitive Style
Peer reviewedUnks, Gerald – Clearing House, 1996
Discusses schools and current AIDS education; facts about AIDS; teaching about behavioral change; the use of condoms; an AIDS awareness curriculum; HIV/AIDS awareness and sex education; and HIV/AIDS awareness and democratic schooling. (SR)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Curriculum, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMilner, Joseph O. – Clearing House, 1997
Describes the three-year development of the Standards Project for English Language Arts. Discusses the context-centered framework, "bad news" from the Department of Education, funding from the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, working with a more linear structure, and uncertainties in the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Peer reviewedCarr, DeBorah A. – Clearing House, 1997
Discusses several real-world cases of teachers who took the lead in working cooperatively with others to create learning opportunities. Describes changes needed in administration and teacher education. (RS)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Peer reviewedHenzey, Debra – Clearing House, 2003
Describes the report "The Civic Mission of Schools," released on 13 February 2003. Discusses four key goals related to civic knowledge and skills; community involvement; political involvement; and moral and civic virtues. Notes that the report also provides practical guidance to K-12 schools and colleges and universities on supporting more…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Peer reviewedMcLean, Russ – Clearing House, 2003
Considers how the closure and consolidation of schools are seen by cash-strapped boards of education as means to save money. Addresses the same "seven red herrings" or arguments that are repeated loudly and angrily to officials as they go through the process of public consultation. (SG)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Consolidated Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends
Peer reviewedSweetland, Scott R. – Clearing House, 2002
Reviews some of the economic reasoning that has been applied to public schooling. Explores the potential consequences of free market public policies for the education system. Concludes that a definitive answer remains elusive as to whether free markets will ultimately spawn improvements in public schooling. (SG)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Enterprise System, Public Policy
Peer reviewedGirvan, James T.; Farrell, Larry D. – Clearing House, 1989
Discusses the need for effective inservice teacher education programs on AIDS in secondary schools. Presents guidelines based on the Joyce-Showers inservice education model. (NH)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Health Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Mission
