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Knippenberg, Rudolph; And Others – Children in the Tropics, 1990
During the 1987 World Health Organization's Regional Assembly, the Ministers of Health of the African States launched the Bamako Initiative, an effort aimed at reorganizing the health system to ensure universal, permanent accessibility of maternal and child health services. Three conditions were initially seen as necessary for success: improvement…
Descriptors: Children, Community Role, Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Download full textFilby, Nikola; Lambert, Vicki – Knowledge Brief, 1990
At the elementary school level, promising new early intervention programs, such as the Reading Recovery Program (RRP), show ways to succeed with students in the primary grades. The RRP targeted the poorest readers in a first grade class, who were given supplemental, one-to-one planned lessons for 30 minutes each day by a specially trained teacher.…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Intervention, Educational Practices
Family Resource Coalition Report, 1988
This special issue of a periodical focuses on building support and resources for families of children with special needs. It contains 13 articles in addition to descriptions of 10 programs serving special needs families at the local level, a list of 15 resource organizations and 10 publications/audiovisual aids, and a message from the coalition's…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Involvement
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1982
Activities are described that illustrate the ways new emphases on structure, liberal arts curriculum, attention to basic skills, a global approach, four-year study courses, and non-lecture pedagogy are being incorporated into college curricula across the country. An opening essay ("The General Education Reform: Accomplishments and Future Agenda")…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Seniors, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Improving Articulation and Transfer Relationships. New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 39.
Peer reviewedKintzer, Frederick C., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1982
With the intent of revitalizing the study of educational articulation and transfer, this collection of essays describes and assesses the current status of transfer education, points to particular problems and concerns, and highlights specific techniques, activities, and practices. The volume includes "The Transfer Function--One of Many,"…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Articulation (Education), College Credits, College Transfer Students
Fleming, Margaret, Ed. – Arizona English Bulletin, 1980
The 18 articles in the first section of this journal issue provide information about the National Writing Project, while the 22 articles in the second section discuss classroom writing projects. Among the topics discussed in the first section are the National Writing Projects in Arizona, Northeast Texas, and Boston; teacher behavior during…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education
Arthur, Patricia, Ed. – 1980
This compilation of approximately 100 document resumes provides educators with abstracts of research, instructional, and other materials in vocational and technical education, and abstracts of funded research and development proposals. The resumes are arranged in ascending order according to an ED (ERIC Document) accession number, with each resume…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Education, Citation Indexes
Arthur, Patricia, Ed. – 1980
This compilation of approximately 100 document resumes provides educators with abstracts of research, instructional, and other materials in vocational and technical education, and abstracts of funded research and development proposals. The resumes are arranged in ascending order according to an ED (ERIC Document) accession number, with each resume…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Education, Citation Indexes
Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific, 1981
Environmental education issues and programs in Asian and Pacific countries are examined in four sections. Section One presents a general overview of environmental education in the region. Topics discussed include environmental problems, goals and objectives for environmental education, legislation, the nature of environmental education, curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Smith, Kurt B., Ed. – Connections, 1980
Programs that link education and work and implications of the 1980 Higher Education Act for the expansion of work-learning opportunities are considered in this bulletin. Considerations for designing and operating a program combining academic learning with work experience is discussed by Yolaine Armand of the College for Human Services in New York…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Higher Education
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1981
Six programs demonstrating some of the ways colleges and universities are strengthening their advising programs to help students attain liberal educations are described, and an essay by Thomas J. Grites is presented. In "Academic Advising: An Atlas for Liberal Education," Grites defines academic advising as a decision-making process…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Articulation (Education), Decision Making, Faculty Advisers
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1979
Eight new approaches to collegiate general education are described. In an introductory overview article, "Toward the Reconstruction of General Education," Jerry Gaff, director of a project on general education models, provides specific suggestions for institutional renewal, such as the formation of a task force, composed of faculty,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Colleges, Core Curriculum
Emplaincourt, Marilyn, Ed.; Bush, Walker, Ed. – 1979
After an overview of the status of international education in the United States, five program descriptions of consortia arrangements for international education programs that are carried out by member institutions of the Council for International Leadership are presented. Most include sponsorship or coordination of some type of study-abroad…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Marshall, Linda; Waddell, Ray – 1977
This pamphlet is the sixth in a series of ten stemming from the view that language is central to learning, that teachers can gain insights into their work and into learning by examining the language of the classroom, and that current language theory can be the means to such insights. The pamphlet outlines a students-helping-students program for…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Revista de Investigacion Educativa, 2002
This journal, which deals with topics in educational research, includes articles written in Spanish (translated here) such as the following: "Management of the Competence of Professional Action (CAP)]" (Benito Echeverria Samanes); "Concepts and Beliefs of Andalusian Secondary School Teachers on Mathematics Assessments"…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Faculty, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research
