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Saslaw, Rita S. – 1985
This report summarizes results of a survey of states, teacher centers, and professional organizations on the status of teacher inservice and staff development. The 43 states and the District of Columbia that responded to the survey have a state level plan for both inservice and professional development. Some, by law, require implementation of the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Associations, Program Development
Grande, Alexander – 1987
Effective school board leadership based on involvement and example can effectively enhance teacher performance. The first of five strategies presented to encourage maximum performance is the "Science of Teaching Program," allowing staff members, in a six-day seminar format, the opportunity to be exposed to a framework for making wise professional…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Inservice Education
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC. – 1986
According to this report, since the 1960s many of the gains of post-Sputnik reform have been allowed to slip away and, as reports of the early 1980s have emphasized, elementary and secondary education has been neglected. The shock of technological and economic losses to other countries has once again alerted the United States to its educational…
Descriptors: Bulletins, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality