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Alberta Education, 2009
The Setting the Direction Minister's Forum was held June 8 and 9, 2009 at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton. It was attended by 820 Albertans and another 288 people participated through interactive webcasts at 78 sites across the province. The purpose of the forum was to present the Framework and engage a broad range of stakeholders in…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Special Education
Howell-Carter, Marya, Ed.; Gonder, Jennifer, Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
Conference proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2011 was: The Future of the Undergraduate Psychology Major: New Directions in an Evolving Educational Climate. The Conference…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Psychology, Undergraduate Study, Majors (Students)
Johnson Foundation, Inc., Racine, WI. – 1978
Fourteen prominent American educators report on their trips to China in October through November 1977. The educators hope that reports of their China visit will help Americans better understand what is happening in China and that this understanding will give studies of China a place in America's school curriculum which is commensurate with its…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Communism, Comparative Education, Curriculum
White, Connie; Merrifield, Juliet – 1990
Two workshops on rural education held at Highlander Research and Education Center brought together grassroots community activists, parents, teachers, and students from rural communities in Appalachia, the southeast, and 15 states east of Mississippi. The participants represented the experiences of white Appalachians, African-Americans, Native…
Descriptors: Activism, Community Involvement, Consolidated Schools, Curriculum
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1993
The Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) in Los Angeles, California has examined transfer data for students at two-year institutions from 1984 through 1987. In the CSCC studies, transfer rates are calculated by dividing the number of students entering a community college with no prior college experience and completing at least 12…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Role, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1988
The major results of a World Health Organization consultation meeting which was organized to examine ways and means of improving the status of substance abuse education for health professionals in some European countries is presented. Conference participants included researchers, psychiatrists, advisers, clinicians, health administrators, and…
Descriptors: Courses, Curriculum, Drug Abuse, Foreign Countries
Flinders Univ., Adelaide. Inst. of International Education. – 1999
This document contains information about, from, and related to a seminar that was convened to bring together senior members of all sectors of education with representatives of business to examine the "UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) Report on Education for the 21st Century" (also known as the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Adult Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers