Picturing Peace is an ArtsBridge collaboration in which K-12 students learn to use digital cameras to communicate their feelings and ideas about peace. The photographs of three student cultures were analyzed. Both local and universal symbols of peace were found, such as nature, light, community, environment, peace signs, play, spiritual symbols,…

A plan for California's postsecondary equal educational opportunity programs is presented. These programs are designed to: increase academic aspirations and preparation of high school or community college students; inform students about financial aid or about specific colleges; increase college students' academic skills to increase their…

A 3-year cooperative program between the College of Saint Rose (Albany, New York) and surrounding rural school districts has two main goals: to help rural Chief School Officers (CSOs) design staff development activities to meet educational needs of mainstreamed handicapped students and to improve the college's preservice teacher education program…

Techniques designed to improve basic competencies of minority students attending selected, historically black colleges are reviewed. The efforts to improve instruction in targeted subject areas have been implemented with the assistance of the Southern Regional Education Board. Attention is directed to: modification of curricula and instructional…

Existing enrollment and financial assistance data for Frontier School Division and provincial school students were examined to identify trends and factors in secondary and postsecondary school participation and to suggest strategies for increasing postsecondary accessibility and participation. Figures for 1977-1982 indicated that 25-30% of…

During the 1982-83 fiscal year, Indian Resource Development (IRD) continued to work to fulfill its mission of assisting Indian tribes to gain effective control and management of the development of their natural resources by providing a cadre of educated and experienced Indian people to fill technical and management positions. Headquartered at New…

What does it mean to be good at history? At certain times during their formal education students seem to be required to adjust their understanding of what studying history entails. Alan Booth writes from the viewpoint of a university tutor. He has collated "student voice" on the experience of studying history at university and contrasted…

Long-range planning assumptions and goals are presented for Muskegon Community College (MCC) as they were submitted by a committee of area citizens. After introductory material summarizing the committee's mandate and activities, the report discusses the fiscal, demographic, curricular, and administrative changes likely to affect MCC during the…

Recommendations presented to the Southern Regional Education Board by its Task Force on Higher Education and the Schools, as a comprehensive program to improve the quality of teaching and learning at all education levels, are reviewed. Priorities fall into three major areas: improving the quality of teachers and other school personnel, improving…

IN AN ATTEMPT TO CODIFY A PROFESSIONAL OVER-ALL POLICY STATEMENT, THE 1959 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ASKED ITS FOUR WORKING COMMITTEES TO DETERMINE, AS AN INTERIM GOAL, HOW TO MAKE MAXIMALLY EFFECTIVE THE 6-YEAR SEQUENCE OF STUDY FROM GRADE 9 THROUGH THE SECOND YEAR OF COLLEGE. THE COMMITTEE REPORTS COMPRISE THIS…

This document is a curriculum outline for a unit of a course in educational administration; it offers an overview of the educational system in Great Britain, with special emphasis on education of sixteen- to nineteeen-year-olds. The objectives of the unit are the following: (1) to explain the curricular traditions that influence the provision made…

THESE PROCEEDINGS REPORT 19 DISCUSSION DEBATES, EACH REPRESENTED BY A NUMBER OF PAPERS IN FOUR MAJOR AREAS--(1) CONCERN FOR ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR (ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITMENT, COOPERATIVE COLLEGE-SCHOOL SYSTEM EFFORTS, CULTURE SHOCK, STAFF AND STUDENT ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR, AND SENSITIVITY TRAINING), (2) CONCERN FOR PEOPLE (TEACHING ETHNIC GROUPS,…

This publication is intended to serve as a guide to nine elementary teacher education models financed by the U. S. Office of Education in 1968. The authors of the models, gathered at a 2-day conference in April, 1969, wrote the nine summaries of their models which appear in this guide. Each summary is similarly organized (except one not written at…

This document, which is based on the findings of case studies of how four high schools from across the country have successfully implemented the schoolwide career academy model, presents recent developments and best practices in schoolwide career academies. The document consists of a brief introduction describing the case studies and one chapter…

This study investigated whether a Professional Development Practicum (PDP) at Pennsylvania's Millersville University had an impact on the educational values of PDP student teachers, especially those related to middle level school reform. Researchers designed a 2-semester study to assess changes in educational values of student teachers placed in…