The challenge of producing the systemic changes that are needed to boost educational attainment and economic competitiveness across the country falls heavily on entities that coordinate public postsecondary institutions. Coordination of postsecondary education, whether of a single system of institutions or across an entire state, requires…

This document represents phase 1 in the development of a position paper on certification for adult secondary education teachers and administrators in Illinois. In its introduction the purposes of the paper are discussed: (1) examine practices in various states for recognizing the professional status of adult education teachers, (2) explore some…

A federally-funded three-year project is described that was undertaken by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages to train a group of Texas-based college level foreign language educators in French, German, and Spanish to serve as oral proficiency interviewers and evaluators of all applicants for a Texas state teaching certificate…