With a view to facilitating good practice and enhancing further exchanges and collaboration with the Open University UK, the Open University of China initiated a joint programme of training to offer online tutors and academic management staff three courses: Student Support, Tutoring On-line, and Course Design. The programme brought in not only a…

Policymakers and researchers have focused on improving the quality of our nation's 3 million teachers to raise the achievement of students in key academic areas, such as reading and mathematics. Given the importance of teacher quality to student achievement and the key role federal and state governments play in supporting teacher quality, GAO's…

Examines issues related to organizing the teaching of reading in secondary schools, such as the lack of liaison between elementary and secondary schools and the confinement of reading instruction to only English or remedial classes. Suggests that secondary school faculty cooperate in using all available resources to produce literate adults. (AEA)

"Planning Your Partnership," a statewide teleconference presented by the California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP), is described and evaluated in this report. Teleconference objectives included the solicitation of high-quality proposals for CAPP grants, increased information dissemination, and expanded experience with teleconference…

Implementation and evaluation of the "Building Your Partnership" teleconference, presented by the California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP), is described in this report. Information on CAPP's second teleconference includes background and objectives; planning, reception, and convening; and conference evaluation. A conclusion is that…

The paper examines the status and issues involved in collaboration between special education and regular education, a relationship critical to the implementation of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. A model for interagency collaboration is applied to the situation, with responsibilities, utilization of resources, and…

The importance of collaboration between professional research and professional personnel in the classroom and school office is described, and suggestions are made for overcoming barriers to effective collaboration. Crandall's conditions for effective collaboration are: that the participants possess substantive competency; that both organizations…

In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of homeless students enrolled in US schools. This report explores collaborative efforts of schools and social service agencies working with homeless children and families. The project's goals were to identify frequently encountered barriers and successful strategies to overcome…

There is a need for a multiprofession approach to human services undergraduate programs. Because most human service workers in entry level positions function as "teachers," teacher education programs should participate in interdisciplinary approaches and cooperate in developing the best possible curriculum and faculty. (CJ)

The report describes the University of Florida Multidisciplinary Diagnostic and Training Program (MDTP), jointly administered through the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Special Education. It functions as a diagnostic, training, and consultative resource to local school districts in north central Florida and provides short-term…

Information on school/community partnerships in Virginia is provided in this resource guide, which is divided into five sections. The first section, "Building Community/Classroom Partnerships Through Coalitions," by Jane Asche, discusses recent findings that point to the need for coalitions to improve public education. Successful…

Increased attention to inservice teacher education needs has isolated four major structural dimensions associated with the design of effective inservice programs. The INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION REPORT I: ISSUES TO FACE (ISTE) explicates an early model of program construction, utilizing these four concepts. Governance, concerned with the…

Evaluation results are reported for a gifted education consortium, involving seven rural school districts and Purdue University's Gifted Education Resource Institute. Positive change occurred in teachers and other school personnel in knowledge level and attitudes toward gifted education. High satisfaction with goal achievement was indicated by…

Real progress toward large-scale comprehensive service delivery to children and their families is possible only when community agencies move beyond cooperation to genuinely collaborative ventures at both the service delivery and system level. The following factors that affect the success of collaborative efforts were developed from an analysis of…

Outcomes of a parent/teacher action research project, the League of Schools Reaching Out, are described in this paper. The League is a group of nine schools working with the Institute for Responsive Education and the Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children's Learning as a resource exchange network. Project goals are to: investigate…