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Download full textSouthwestern Region Deaf-Blind Center, Sacramento, CA. – 1978
Fifteen papers from special study institutes and workshops focus on understanding planning, providing residential and community services, and traininq for the deaf-blind. Included are the following titles and authors: "Definition of the Problem" (L. Smith); "Normalcy of the Abnormal--Body and Sense Thinking Development of the Organically Impaired"…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Child Development, Community Programs, Deaf Blind
1977
This volume presents the views of participants from seventy-two countries and twenty international nongovernmental and intergovernmental agencies who met in Puerto Rico to discuss the struggle for equal opportunity. The report of the Pre-Conference Working Party which analyzes and discusses the conference's theme of equal opportunity and possible…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Demography, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1981
The Seventh Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) was devoted to a tripartite review of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) component of APEID. APEID had undertaken four development themes in its second cycle: universalization of education at early school levels and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Innovation, Equal Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (ED), Washington, DC. Compensatory Education Programs. – 1993
This document provides the individual and panel presentations for the Annual National Conference of State Chapter 1 Coordinators concerning Compensatory Education Programs. Presentations and their authors are as follows: (1) "Chapter 1 and School Reform: An Overview" (Richard W. Riley); (2) "Systemic Reform and Educational…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Multnomah County Education Service District, Portland, OR. – 1980
Ideas discussed at the 1980 National Conference on Rural/Regional Educational Programs held in Portland, Oregon are presented in this Conference Reporter. Following a summary of executive committee activities and speeches concerning the future of rural/regional education and stressing the need for educators to assume leadership in rural education,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Agency Cooperation, Educational Principles, Educational Strategies
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1981
The Seventh Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) proposed this detailed Work Plan for the project's third cycle (1982-1986). Each of the eight programme areas is defined and then addressed in the following categories: development objectives; immediate objectives; and lists of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Creativity, Developing Nations, Educational Development
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet examines adult education needs and opportunities for persons with disabilities. It reports on the following: the changing perceptions and definitions of disability in both developed and developing nations, the rights of disabled persons, the need for educational policies for adults with disabilities, and the inclusion of people with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Civil Liberties
Timpane, Michael, Ed. – 1978
This book contains papers first presented at the September 1976 Symposium on the Federal Interest in Financing Schooling. Participants responded to three questions. First, given what we know about federal goals in education, how appropriate are the areas in which federal involvement is currently concentrated? Second, how effective are existing…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1988
Examined in this book are issues related to the education of at-risk children and youth. Part 1 of the volume consists of 12 original papers presented and discussed at the Council of Chief State School Officers' (CCSSO) 1987 Summer Institute. Papers concern: (1) values, standards, and climate in schools serving students at risk; (2) schools and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Community Support, Disadvantaged Youth
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1983
The report of the Eighth Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) reviews APEID's activities for 1981-82 and proposed third-cycle program (1982-86), and includes group reports on universalization of primary education, promotion of scientific and technological creativity, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Education, Developing Nations, Distance Education
Garcia, Nilda, Comp.; Ortega, Jaime, Comp. – 1980
Covering the Bi-regional Conference on the Education of Hispanics which was held February 14-16, 1980, in San Antonio, Texas, this text is a verbatim report of selected papers presented. Presentations in the post-secondary sessions deal with the Hispanic variable in higher education (five papers); program and professional development and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Selection, Bilingual Education, Desegregation Effects
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1984
The report of the Ninth Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) reviews activities and progress for 1982-83 in eight program areas: (1) universalization of education (access to education at first level by both formal and nonformal means), (2) promotion of scientific and technological…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Education, Developing Nations, Educational Development
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
This bulletin contains abstracts of addresses delivered at a 2-day conference of State and county rural-school supervisors of the Northeastern States, called by the United States Commissioner of Education in New York City, New York, April 23 and 24, 1928. Abstracts were prepared from manuscripts submitted by the authors. The conference was the…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Rural Education, Educational Change, School Supervision
Bain, Josie G., Ed.; Herman, Joan L., Ed. – 1987
The conference reported in this document sought to do the following: (1) focus attention on the problem of underachieving minority students, and issue a call for action to improve their educational achievement; (2) promote dialogue on promising practices aimed at solving the problem; (3) foster collaboration on solutions among practitioners,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Students, Asian American Students, Black Students
