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Direct linkJagla, Virginia M., Ed.; Tice, Kathleen C., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019
Service-learning is a powerful method of teaching and learning that has been used effectively for more than two decades. This volume contributes further to the Advances in Service-Learning Research series that focuses upon service-learning in teacher education. Research and theory indicate that knowledge of service-learning pedagogy and how to…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Education
Download full textOwen, Jenni, Ed.; Rosch, Joel, Ed.; Smith, Shannon, Ed. – Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University (NJ1), 2011
North Carolina Family Impact Seminars (NCFIS) include annual seminars, briefing reports and follow-up activities designed specifically for state policymakers, including legislators and legislative staff, the governor and executive branch staff, and state agency representatives. The Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University convenes the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Stakeholders, Child Care, Gardening
Hantzopoulos, Maria, Ed.; Tyner-Mullings, Alia R., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform features the most current empirical research about the successes and challenges of the small schools movement and the implications of such for urban public educational policy. Situated in a climate of hierarchical reform, many of the principles of the original…
Descriptors: Caring, Achievement Gap, Social Justice, Small Schools
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)
Reville, S. Paul, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
In the last decade, the Boston Public Schools has undergone critical reforms that have been of intense interest to school leaders and policymakers throughout the country. Under the leadership of superintendent Thomas Payzant, the Boston schools implemented extensive reform strategies that yielded notable results. Fittingly, at the end of Payzant's…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Educational Change, Human Resources
National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1980
Contemporary problems in urban education are explored in this collection of papers. The leading article discusses the implications of urban decay and demographic change for school finance and educational accountability. The second paper stresses the need for a basic skills curriculum, well-trained teachers, and the inclusion of parents in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Desegregation Plans, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Zlotkowski, Edward, Ed. – 1998
The 11 chapters in this book describe successful innovative programs of service learning at the undergraduate level. Emphasis is on how different kinds of institutions, facing different internal and external circumstances, have made service-learning an institutional asset. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction: A New Model of Excellence" (Edward…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Diversity (Institutional)
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1992
The 15 chapters of this book examine major issues in gifted education today, the role of gifted education in the educational reform movement, and the development of gifted education in Ohio. After an introductory chapter by Elyse S. Fleming, chapters have the following titles and authors: "The Shadow of the Future: Serving Ohio's Gifted…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Attitudes, Child Advocacy, Classroom Techniques
Jones, Enid B., Ed. – 1993
Background papers and recommendations from the American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC's) 1992 roundtable on issues facing minority students in mathematics, science, and engineering (MSE) education are presented. The first paper, "Community College Networks," by Wm. Carroll Marsalis and Glenna A. Mosby, describes the Tennessee Valley…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Ancillary School Services, Black Students, Career Counseling
Bell, William E.; And Others – 1980
This collection of papers examines the current issues in urban education as suggested by on-site studies of programs in sixteen different cities between 1977 and 1980. An overview of the problems in urban education and their causes is presented in the first paper. The second paper discusses program improvement strategies and several examples of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Career Education, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
