The 2022 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages was held March 3-5, 2022, in a virtual format. The theme, "Maximizing the Power of Proficiency," is an homage to the important work that world language educators do every day. While each educator brings their own unique strengths and insights to the classroom, they…

The theme of the 2016 National Conference of the Australian College of Educators (ACE), "Challenges and changes: The power of education to build the world to which we aspire," provided a unique opportunity for education professionals to carefully consider and propose papers, workshops, and poster sessions to stimulate discussion and…

This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the…

Based on a two-day national networking conference composed of policymakers from the public and private sectors, this report proposes ten steps for improving teacher preparation and retention in order to upgrade the quality of education nationally and halt the growing shortage of teachers in specific subject areas. Specifically, it was proposed…

The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2013 proceedings: (1) Teaching About Asia in a Social Science Education Program (Cyndi Mottola Poole and Joshua L. Kenna); (2) Teaching Students about…

Over 50 delegates from 32 states and 2 Canadian provinces attended this conference, during which 5 intensive working group sessions discussed, debated, and achieved agreement on a number of relevant issues concerning the role of educational telecomputing in school reform and restructuring. The conference proceedings begins with an overview of the…

Discussions during a seminar, whose participants came from North America and Europe, on trends and problems in the role of women in higher education are summarized. (MSE)

The California Educational Technology Summit was convened to address both the existing and desired applications of technology in California education. The objectives of the summit were: to increase awareness of technology and its limits and potential; provide for a dialogue about important technology related issues across educational sectors; and…

Following the keynote address on the importance of planning and the changing style of management in colleges and universities, various prepared papers developed the meeting theme of using technology in college and university planning. William Massey described the development and use of a computer model for strategic planning at Stanford. Edmund…

The 2-day meeting of 300 representatives of various practitioner and policymaking groups in education described in this report combined substantive discussions of research priorities and plans with discussions of ways to increase the use of research-based information. Fourteen small group discussions focused on both the National Education Goals…

This report summarizes the proceedings of a seminar held in Switzerland to disseminate the findings of the Council for Cultural Cooperation's (CDCC) project on innovation in primary education. Additional aims were to: (1) compare the CDCC's primary innovation project with five school development projects carried out in Switzerland; (2) test a…

This document presents the proceedings of a conference on managing and using information technology to implement change in higher education. Six tracks, with eight papers in each track, address the themes of: (1) leadership challenges for managers of information technology during times of change; (2) leveraging people with technology, to make…

This document presents the proceedings of a conference attended by Project Directors (or their designees) of projects funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and having a significant component of technical assistance (TA) and/or dissemination activities. The conference was designed to provide new information to projects, to…

This publication is the product of a two and one-half day workshop that was held to develop directions and strategies for meeting the future needs of California correctional education. The first part of the document contains the opening session address by California Assemblyman John Vasconcellos and two presentations--"The Doomed and the…

These proceedings summarize the Fourth Nationwide Vocational Education Dissemination Conference that concentrated on the knowledge, tools, techniques, and topical areas needed by disseminators, linkers, and other change agents. Introductory materials are a conference overview, reflections on the conference, and the agenda. Brief summaries follow…