These proceedings from a conference sponsored by the New England Consortium for the Right to Read discuss the role of administrators in Right to Read programs. Included are discussions of the New England Consortium effort, the role of the administrator in implementing and organizing the reading program, and reports from section meetings on…

This collection of conference papers explores how education should be restructured in order to promote greater cooperation between business and industry. Educators, public/private-sector authorities, and others focus on: changing needs of employers; changing composition of student bodies; overcoming inertia in the system; and business-education…

Two international meetings on distance education are summarized in this report. The first, a preparatory seminar on "Staff Development for Distance Education," was held in Berlin to give African participants an opportunity to meet prior to attending the 12th World Conference of the International Council for Correspondence Education…

The document reports on a regional (Asia and the Pacific) seminar and workshop held in August 1985, addressing the education of disabled persons. Nations represented included India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The seminar considered planning measures in support of implementing education services to the disabled and…

This document reports the proceedings of a national conference of government, business, and educational executives on the school-to-work connection. The proceedings provide short summaries of the speeches and discussions held during the conference, which focused on the problems of poorly educated youth--tomorrow's workers--and how businesses and…

Social service workers and artists from 16 cities attended a conference to share their experiences and hopes for child welfare. The conference opened with a theater performance telling the story of an inner city teenager who dreams of dancing professionally but becomes involved in selling crack; the audience helps to create the story's ending.…

These proceedings from a conference on restructuring the schools present a variety of perspectives for instituting educational change. Consideration of the theme allowed a review of the failures of educational reform, and a survey of current trends. There was a call for less rhetoric and more attention to comprehensive insights and plans that will…

This report summarizes the proceedings of a conference, "Leading the Way: Partners in Volunteerism," that brought together 170 educators, nonprofit organizations, and students to promote youth volunteerism. In a series of plenary sessions and workshops, attendees discussed the issues that have an impact on the creation and operation of…

Delegations from Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States agreed to the establishment of a network for cooperation among individuals engaged in problems peculiar to the circumpolar North. The Northern Science Network, established within the Unesco Man and the Biosphere Program, consists of three themes: studies on the…

This document summarizes the proceedings of a conference of urban leaders on public-private collaborative efforts to address the problems of inner-city high schools. Findings presented and opinions expressed at sessions on the following topics are outlined: (1) education funds; (2) city-wide umbrella organizations; (3) goal setting--tying jobs and…

This proceedings contains papers from the 1998 annual conference of the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA). After welcoming remarks from Henry Robert and Isabel Rungrad, the following papers are included: "Sharing Our Successes, Discussing Our Future: A Survey of Pacific Collections Activities--Report from the…

This report summarizes the findings of a conference that examined the problem of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among street and homeless youth. Street and homeless youth, by virtue of their circumstances and the behaviors they engage in, are at great risk of becoming infected with HIV,…

This report, produced by acknowledged experts in scientific research and in science administration from both the minority and majority community, proposes mechanisms for the development of nationally competitive research efforts at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and for establishing parity for blacks in science and technology…

Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experience as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the sixteenth in a series of 19 hearings dating…

The conference reported here was designed to encourage practitioners and other educational decision makers to improve, expand, and/or install programs of education/work in postsecondary institutions of Colorado. The objectives, program, and conference proceedings from each of four sessions are presented. Session one, an overview, consists of…