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Russell, Christina A., Ed.; Newhouse, Corey, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021
"Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time" shares the experience and wisdom from a broad cross-section of out-of-school time professionals, ranging from internal evaluators, to funders, to researchers, to policy advocates. Key themes of the volume include building support for learning and evaluation within out-of-school time…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Capacity Building, Evaluators, Educational Quality
Murphy, Dianna, Ed.; Evans-Romaine, Karen, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2016
A number of reports in the US have highlighted the country's need for improved second language skills for both national security and economic competitiveness. The Language Flagship program, launched in 2002, aims to raise expectations regarding language proficiency levels at the post-secondary level and to address structural gaps in the curricula…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Second Language Programs, Program Descriptions
Leal Filho, Walter, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
This book, prepared in the context of the "UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)", also known as "Rio+20", contains the papers submitted to the "World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2012)", which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 5 and 6 June 2012. It pursues the following main aims: to document and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Conferences (Gatherings)
Nakamura, Caroline; And Others – 1984
Three contributions to a panel discussion on writing-across-the-curriculum at Kapiolani Community College (KCC) are presented. First, "Why Writing-Across-the-Curriculum: Background and Context," by Caroline Nakamura, reviews programs offered across the country, discusses the need for such programs given the decline in students' writing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Writing, Curriculum Design, Interdisciplinary Approach
Kirchman, Mary P.; And Others – 1979
The document reports on the Communitization Integration Team, a joint interagency planning project whose major goal was to develop, within a two county area, models for the cooperative delivery of community based services to school age developmentally disabled children, particularly the severely-profoundly retarded. Initial sections cover project…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities
Sjoholm, Kaj, Ed.; Bjorklund, Mikaela, Ed. – 1999
The publication on the integration of content area and second language instruction, focusing on the situation in Finland, consists of nine essays and a bibliography. The essays include: "Education in a Second or Foreign Language. An Overview" (Kaj Sjoholm); "Foreign Language Content Teaching in Teacher Education at Abo Akademi…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
Nelsen, William C., Ed.; Siegel, Michael E., Ed. – 1980
Essays are collected on faculty development programs that are felt to have positively affected both the institutions and individual faculty members. They include: Faculty Development: Promises, Realities and Needs (William C. Nelsen, Michael E. Siegel); Improving the Scholarly Climate on Campus through a Program of Small Grants (David Marker);…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Consortia, Consultants
Maley, Donald, Ed.; Smith, Kenneth L., Ed. – 1991
This publication on Aerospace Programs is a special edition of "Technology Education" featuring descriptions of 15 select aerospace education programs from diverse localities spanning the full range of instructional levels. Following introductory material, the monograph contains the following largely unedited program descriptions: (1)…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, College Science, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Cenoz, Jasone, Ed.; Genesee, Fred, Ed. – 1998
This collection of essays on multilingual education includes the following: "A Global Perspective on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education" (G. Richard Tucker); "Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education" (Jasone Cenoz, Fred Genesee); "Curriculum Decision-Making in Content-Based…
Descriptors: Basque, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Case Studies
Schlack, Marilyn; And Others – 1993
The papers in this collection describe partnership programs and projects involving Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in Michigan. The first paper, "The Arcadia Commons Partnership: The Community College and Economic Redevelopment," by Marilyn Schlack, describes the Arcadia Commons, a business-education park in downtown Kalamazoo,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Development, Consortia
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. – 1995
The collection of articles from publications of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) offers a theoretical basis for construction of effective English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs. Articles address issues of national policy, content and design of academic programs, and the context for ESL learning. They are:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Bilingual Education, Classroom Communication