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Download full textNEGP Monthly, 1999
This issue of a monthly serial publication of the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP), which is available only online in PDF Format, examines efforts underway in Colorado, Maryland, and Montgomery County, Maryland to increase student achievement in reading (related to Goal 3 of the NEGP). After an overview, it discusses Colorado's efforts to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Professional Development, Reading Achievement
Conley, David T. – OSSC Bulletin, 1991
In 1987, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 2020, the School Improvement and Professional Development Program. Designed to encourage innovation and professional development in a select number of Oregon schools, this act was intended to upgrade educational quality and create models for other state schools. Rather than evaluating program…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants
Koprowicz, Constance L. – State Legislative Report, 1994
Lawmakers face the challenge of strengthening the teaching workforce by supporting and demanding excellence. The purpose of this report is to acquaint state legislators with the goals and activities of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and to underscore the ways in which state legislatures might work with the NBPTS to…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Excellence in Education, Legislators
West, B. Bradley, Ed.; Gress, James R., Ed. – The Journal of the Michigan Association of Teacher Educators and the Ohio Association of Teacher Educators, 1990
The articles in this journal address aspects of the general theme, "Development of the Teaching Profession," and report on research in brain dominance and certification practices. The following articles are in the theme features section: (1) "Collecting Garbage, Driving Trucks, and Waiting Tables: The Economic Reality of…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Higher Education
What's the Buzz, 1997
Five issues of an adult basic education newsletter were developed and disseminated to more than 4,000 adult educators in Pennsylvania. The newsletters contained information appropriate to their professional development in a format and by a delivery method that would reach the large rural area of Pennsylvania and the large number of part-time adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
