The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) is one of 10 regional educational labs funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Since 1984, NCREL has been providing research-based resources and assistance to educators, policymakers, and communities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The primary…

Speeches given at the 1978 National Conference of the Teacher Corps are reproduced in this report. These presentations are divided into three general categories--topics of broad interest to educators, trends in education, and the responsibilities of the teacher corps. (JD)

This essay is based on a roundtable of higher education leaders and policy officials convened in June 2002 as part of a larger research effort undertaken by the Alliance for International Higher Education Policy Studies (AIHEPS), an international collaboration for comparative research on higher education policy. The roundtable focused on AIHEPS…

This publication reports the proceedings of the National Accountability Conference held by the National Education Association in March 1977 on the theme: "Schooling: Expectations in Conflict." Section 1 of the report draws primarily on the contributions of the major speakers and seminar leaders to discuss the nature of conflict, the implications…

This publication contains the final report and workshop proceedings of a project which addressed (1) ways of providing a systematic rationale for vocational education, (2) developing skills of philosophical analysis, (3) utilizing critical analysis, and (4) identifying new directions for vocational education. The first two chapters contain an…

The report contains presentations delivered at the Rhode Island State Department of Education's conference dealing with the identification of gifted students, the importance of pupil personnel services in programs for gifted youth, and the need for an interdisciplinary approach (administrators, counselors, classroom teachers, educational…

The 1973 National Training Workshop on Head Start Services to Handicapped Children focused on exchanging information concerning local implementation of a Congressional mandate to integrate handicapped children into the Head Start program. The document includes excerpts from major addresses on accountability and upgrading the quality of the Head…

This publication includes the proceedings of the December 1974 long-range academic planning workshop for the 1974-75 Cooperative Academic Planning (CAP) consortium, the first in a series on curriculum change for this new consortium. This workshop represents a new thrust for the CAP program in terms of establishing coordinating and comprehensive…

A training seminar in the use of media (primarily videotape) was conducted by the Southern Regional Media Center for the Deaf in July 1971 for directors of 40 early childhood centers. The following were representative goals of the program: (1) familiarize institute participants with various form of media equipment, (2) provide an opportunity to…

This summary of the principal deliberations and recommendations of the Wingspread II Conference convened in October 1978 by the American Theatre Association (ATA) documents the efforts of the ATA to develop the areas of standards and accreditation, development, education, and research. The work of the four commissions that had been created in each…

The proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society in 1974 are presented. The proceedings consist of 16 addresses. Titles include (1) Leonard Abraham Fels, 1911-1974: A Memoriale; (2) Trying to Make Sense out of "Existential Thought and Education"; (3) Making Sense out of "Existential Thought and…

This document presents a summary of proceedings at a conference on schooling and the acquisition of knowledge, and contains twelve formal papers, formal comments by discussants, and informal discussion by conference attendees. Topics covered in the twelve papers are: (1) types of knowledge and purposes of education; (2) schooling and the…

Presented are proceedings from a 1975 Bureau of Education for the Handicapped sponsored conference on research needs related to the education of the severely handicapped. It is explained that participants (whose names are listed in an appendix) focused upon the identification of research needs in four major areas: goals (remarks by M. Gold),…

The Workshop on Instructional Development was one of a number of workshops organized on various issues concerning teaching and learning in the Ontario universities. It was held in an attempt to provide some exchange of information among the Ontario universities on the organized activities initiated on their campuses concerned with improving…

The proceedings of the 21st annual meeting of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society in 1972 are presented. The proceedings consisted of 20 addresses and responses. Titles include (1) Presidential Address: Competency-Based Education: Consensus Cognoscenti Versus Reconstructio Experientiae; (2) A Role for Philosophy in California and…