One government initiative in England and Wales involves moving teacher education away from higher education and into schools; establishing school consortium-administered postgraduate certification in education courses. From a study of one such program, this article reports findings related to weaknesses in program preparation and organization,…

The Portfolio Project was conducted to promote lifelong, self-directed learning in the workplace. The project, which offered courses on basic skills, supervisory communications, and English as a second language, was initiated as a literacy demonstration project by the Casco Bay Partnership (CBP), which brought together government, educators, and…