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Walker, Thomas D. – 1996
This paper documents the "inspection visit" program which existed at the University of Illinois library school between 1895 and 1948 whereby library school students would take extended "field trips" to nearby or even distant libraries. Topics include issues concerned with the visits themselves, their role in the library school…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Field Instruction
Lewis, Horacio D., Ed. – 1988
This monograph comprises 10 articles grouped under a single title on the following aspects of school desegregation in Delaware: (1) the true meaning of desegregation in the light of current concerns; (2) the effect on Hispanic and other students; and (3) its personal impact. The following school and community representatives contributed to the…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Muley, D. S. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1993
Discusses India's population problems and efforts to implement family planning and population education programs since the 1930s. Describes the National Population Education Project's nonformal education, school-based, and teacher training components, as well as separate cocurricular, higher education, adult education, and media activities. (DMM)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Attitude Change, Demography
McGill-Franzen, Anne – 2000
This paper describes the recent policy history of reading education, its place on the public policy agenda, and the research that relates reading policy to reading instruction. Part I of the paper provides a brief recent history of federal education policy, which aims to ensure equity. Part II revisits compensatory education and describes systemic…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Taylor, Richard, Ed. – 1996
This book contains 21 papers detailing the history of adult and continuing education at the University of Leeds (England) since its inception in 1946 as the Department of Extra-Mural Studies. The themes addressed include the appropriate nature of university continuing education and the issue of standards and quality assurance; the roles of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Continuing Education, Departments