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Marcos, Kathleen – 2003
Researchers have recommended that career exploration and awareness begin before high school, when students have already made major decisions about courses. To encourage students to make informed decisions, it is argued that middle schools must introduce career awareness, such as the concept that success in most careers requires education and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Exploration, Decision Making, Middle School Students
ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 2001
The CRitical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheet describes resources that highlight institutional practices that have been instrumental in the creation of multicultural campus environments. These lessons from the field of multicultural education can help other institutions in developing and implementing policy. The annotated bibliography describes 10…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Environment, Educational Practices, Field Studies
Willetts, Karen F.; Short, Deborah J. – 1990
This digest highlights the planning phase of developing and implementing middle school foreign language programs, focusing particular attention on program types and criteria for selecting an appropriate program. Specific issues addressed include the following: (1) Which language or languages should be taught? (2) At what grade level should foreign…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Elective Courses, Middle Schools, Program Descriptions
ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 2001
The CRitical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheet describes resources related to summer bridge programs. As state and federal policies increase access to higher education, many institutions have experimented with summer bridge programs to aid new populations in the transition from high school to college. This CRIB Sheet provides an overview of bridge…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Students, Disabilities, Educational Research
Tucker, G. Richard; Donato, Richard – 2001
This digest describes the implementation of a successful district-wide elementary school foreign language (FLES) program that resulted from the superintendent's vision to have all students in the district study a common foreign language throughout their schooling. This vision was based on the superintendent's belief that American secondary school…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Cooperation, Elementary Education, FLES
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1994
Two-way bilingual education has taken root in many schools across the United Sates. In these programs, students develop dual language proficiency by receiving instruction in English and another language in a classroom that is usually comprised of half native speakers of English and half native speakers of the target language. Two-way programs work…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, English (Second Language), Futures (of Society), Program Descriptions
Berger, Sandra L., Ed. – 1992
This directory resulted from a 1991 survey of 46 programs funded under the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1988. The projects are listed alphabetically by state, city, and name of project. Projects have been divided into two types: (1) those that provide direct services to children and (2) dissemination projects.…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Dillon-Peterson, Elizabeth; And Others – 1980
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education and the Lincoln, Nebraska, Public School System undertook a cooperative project to raise teachers' awareness and use of the ERIC data bases. The report describes project background and planning, project execution, and evaluation. Suggestions for future replication are also provided. Appendices provide a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government
Curtain, Helena – 1993
This resource book addresses many of the factors involved in establishing and maintaining an elementary school foreign language program. Chapter 1 provides information on various program models. Chapter 2 addresses program issues, such as establishing a program rationale and choosing the language or languages to be taught, in order to provide…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Policy, Elementary Education, FLES
Disinger, John F., Ed. – 1982
Twenty-nine case studies presented in this document, all drawn from the ERIC data base and thus accessible through ERIC microfiche collections, have as their common denominator the efforts of individuals, organizations, and agencies to affect and/or accommodate change through environmental education. Their targets, representing all age levels,…
Descriptors: Biology, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Katz, Lilian G.; And Others – 1990
In six brief chapters, mixed-age grouping of young children in schools and child care centers is explored and advocated. Chapter 1 defines mixed-age grouping, examines limitations of single-age grouping, and points out positive characteristics of mixed-age classes. Chapter 2 discusses social development as seen in children's interactions in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cooperative Learning, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Imel, Susan – 1993
Youth apprenticeship programs differ from the registered apprenticeship that is regulated by federal and state governments. Defined as a "learning program for young people, age 16 and older, that integrates on-the-job training with school-based instruction, that bridges high school and postsecondary schooling, and that results in both academic…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
George, Karlene R. – 1987
Case studies are used to illustrate issues in the identification of gifted and talented American Indian children and the development of appropriate programs that respond to individual needs and cultural values. Emphasis is placed on the identification of students who do not manifest their high intellectual and creative abilities in ways accepted…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Case Studies
Keig, Larry; Waggoner, Michael D. – 1994
This report argues for the central involvement of faculty themselves in collaborative peer review for the improvement of college teaching. An early section makes the case for formative evaluation to improve teaching and argues that collaborative peer review is well suited to the formative evaluation task. The next section examines faculty roles in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Faculty, College Instruction, Evaluation Methods
Toy, Steve – 1987
Addressing the concerns and resources of small, rural school districts, this book sets out a rationale and model plan for school-community relations. After introductory material and a review of what's been done, the first major section lists and describes 10 criteria shown by research to be most important for a small school district community…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Involvement
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