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Education Resource Strategies, 2012
"School Budget Hold'em" is a game designed to help school districts rethink their budgeting process. It evolved out of Education Resource Strategies' (ERS) experience working with large urban districts around the country. "School Budget Hold'em" offers a completely new approach--one that can turn the budgeting process into a long-term visioning…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Central Office Administrators, School Districts, Games
Cox, Caroline – Journal of Pesticide Reform, 1991
Ways teachers have used insects in and out of the classroom to help nurture children's fascination are discussed. Projects for elementary, secondary, and college classes are described. (CW)
Descriptors: Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning
Duke, Daniel L., Ed. – Spotlight on New Learning Environments: A Journal of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design at the University of Virginia, 1998
A two-issue volume presents articles describing innovative schools, classrooms, and alternative learning arrangements found in some of today's schools. Issue one contains three articles offering glimpses of an elementary school committed to the Core Knowledge curriculum of E. D. Hirsch, a renovated school devoted to early childhood learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Core Curriculum, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Myers, David E. – Music Educators Journal, 1992
Maintains that the need for music educators to provide services for adult learners is increasing. Discusses modifying music teacher education programs to meet this need. Reviews theories of developmental education and the special needs and concerns of older learners. (CFR)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Creative Activities, Developmental Stages
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Roebuck, Douglas; Hochman, Arthur – Social Education, 1993
Reports on an experimental program in which preservice education students worked as Junior Achievement consultants in elementary schools. Discusses successful results and aspects of the project that could be improved. Concludes that the program could be replicated successfully in teacher education programs throughout the country. (CFR)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Services, Curriculum Development, Economics Education
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Rhys, Gwen; Vidler, Chris – Economics, 1992
Describes a two-day field experience in which college-level business and economics students visited businesses and municipal government organizations. Contends that preparatory experiences were essential to the program's success. Concludes that students were more optimistic about the economy and more enthusiastic about their future work in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Hutcheson, Polly, Ed. – 1999
This report highlights the various strategies used to relate cooperative education (CE) work experience to students' academic programs by profiling 17 colleges and universities that are members of the National Commission for Cooperative Education's College Partner Program. Each profile includes a brief statement from the institution's president;…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education