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ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1986
This digest highlights features of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), explains how to use the system most effectively, and offers suggestions on how teacher education faculty can present and use the ERIC system to supplement classroom instruction. Following a description of how resources in ERIC can be helpful to teachers and…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Databases, Educational Resources, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1986
This digest highlights features of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), explains how to use the system most effectively, and offers suggestions on how health and physical education teacher education faculty can present and use the ERIC system to supplement classroom instruction. Following a description of how resources in ERIC can…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Databases, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Banks, Debra; Mabry, Theo – 1988
Not for profit community college foundations play a major role in overall resource development. Because foundations are legally and organizationally independent of the college, they are able to promote the well-being of the college without the statutory limits imposed by the governing board and staff. Foundation money is not restricted to basic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Donors, Educational Finance, Educational Resources
Pereira, Carolyn – 1993
The growing population of "English-as-second language" (ESL) students in the United States need to learn how to cope with the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the U.S. Because of this, civic education should pervade the curriculum for ESL students. This ERIC digest treats five facets of civic education for ESL students: (1)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Citizenship Education, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development
Hensel, Nancy – 1991
This brief report summarizes a longer report with the same title. It examines the problems of the increasingly severe shortage of qualified teachers in American higher education and the need to recruit large numbers of new faculty during the next decade and, as the potential solution to both problems, the recruiting of women to fill these faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Educational Demand, Educational Resources
Masters, Denise G. – 1996
Public libraries have a responsibility toward all of their patrons, including home schoolers. "Home schooling" describes the situation where parents or guardians choose not to send their children to public or private schools, but instead educate their children themselves. Libraries are very important to home schoolers because, in most…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs, Educational Resources