In 2015, AMS Board members suggested that the board create a program that would meet the need for more AMS-credentialed leaders, to assist with succession planning for both AMS and Montessori schools. An advisory committee was created to oversee the program and ensure that its mission was upheld. What came out of this work was AMS's Emerging…

After a nationwide search, the NASP PREPaRE Workgroup recently invited Brian Lazzaro, Christina Conolly-Wilson, and Melinda Susan to join the workgroup. This was done in an attempt to meet the ever-increasing demand and associated duties that accompany the dissemination of the PREPaRE Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum. In this…

Discusses barriers to the utilization of computers in instruction and outlines the program of the Elementary and Secondary School Subcommittee of the Association for Computing Machinery to identify and lay a foundation for the solution of problem areas. (Author/IRT)

The individual element of multicultural education needs to be recognized. The Association of American Colleges' national project, "Engaging Cultural Legacies: Shaping Core Curricula in the Humanities," helps colleges develop curriculum that challenge students to explore the humanities as reflected in their own social values, ideas, and…

An older graduate student preparing to teach at a liberal arts college describes participation in the Preparing Future Faculty program at Northwestern University (Illinois), a cooperative effort of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools. The program provides monthly colloquia on college…

The American Association of University Professors' collective bargaining office and Collective Bargaining Congress are described. Their program includes services designed to prepare collective bargaining chapters to effectively address resource allocation issues that will be determined in contract negotiations. (MLW)

This publication examines the process of networking, which is defined here as a framework to provide technical support between and among professionals. The process of networking is explored over a 7-year period as it served directors of the Midwest Teacher Corps, one of 12 networks established on a geographical basis by the Teacher Corps Program,…

In this speech delivered at the 1984 meeting of the Association of American Geographers, the president of the National Geographic Society (NGS) discusses what geography needs to stay on its feet as an independent and useful discipline and what the NGS is doing to support geography. (RM)

A university president and cochair of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics looks at recent efforts to reform and renew college sports, the effects of those efforts, and directions for the future. Another president and chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's presidents' commission offers their perspective on…

Considers the leadership role played by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC) in curriculum development. Reviews AACJC's public policy agenda for 1987. Traces the organization's role in establishing economic development as a curricular priority for two-year colleges, and briefly describes award-winning partnerships…

It is suggested that a new approach to education for academic careers, one which adds training in teaching and service to training for research, is gaining interest. A number of initiatives, privately and publicly funded, and market forces that support this trend are noted. (MSE)

Maintains that many early childhood educators are apt to practice nice thinking rather critical thinking when, in fact, the latter would clear their heads and inform practice. This position is supported by examples of teachers' uses of such terms as "home-school cooperation,""planning," and "curriculum." (BB)

According to this report, since the 1960s many of the gains of post-Sputnik reform have been allowed to slip away and, as reports of the early 1980s have emphasized, elementary and secondary education has been neglected. The shock of technological and economic losses to other countries has once again alerted the United States to its educational…

Describes four major federal programs supporting the education, recruitment, and professional development of minority dental faculty; the Association of American Medical Colleges' project to support minority health occupations faculty training; and an ongoing West Virginia University faculty affirmative action program. Also offers personal…