On July 17, 2008 the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) awarded a contract to the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to assist OVAE in conducting a descriptive study of instructional and programmatic practices that support the transition of English language learners (TELL) from English as a second…

This article presents a comprehensive review of journal articles on multicultural education. The location and tracing of this literature is described. The articles are discussed, analyzed, and grouped according to kinds of article and general topic. Four kinds of articles are included: position papers, teaching guides, project descriptions, and…

This brief annotated bibliography introduces publications from the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations/Concerns-Based Adoption Model program of the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Each entry includes a bibliographic citation, a brief abstract, and availability information on…

This bibliography contains abstracts of 50 documents about evaluation of teacher training in population education. It is the second in a series of three resource bibliographies for the development of population education programs in the Philippines. Included in this bibliography are abstracts of books, periodical articles, ERIC documents, and…

This report reviews the literature pertaining to requirements for teacher training and certification in early primary education. The literature since 1975 from Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere was examined in order to address questions of selection criteria, competencies, models of teacher education,…

Journal articles, books, monographs, research papers, and lecture-discussion papers on educational planning covering the period from 1970 to mid 1977 are cited. Some outstanding literature not belonging to this period is also cited. The first section lists existing bibliographies in educational planning. Concept and general theory and methodology…

This bibliography lists 40 reports and journal articles on personnel supply and demand issues, models, and data sources in the field of special education. The first section lists general materials on assessment of personnel needs, teacher supply and demand, teacher retention and attrition, and supply and demand of leadership personnel. Six…

A review of the literature on the topic of admissions criteria in teacher education is presented. Bibliographic annotations review surveys, studies, models, and guidelines on various aspects of admissions criteria, as well as attracting and retaining quality students. (JN)

This classified, annotated bibliography of recent works on multicultural education was compiled from an ERIC computer search and from manual searches at various university libraries. Each reference is listed in one of eight topical areas. These include: bibliographies on multicultural education; rationale and theory; program strategies; models;…

This report is composed of a series of abstracts describing innovative/exemplary activities in industrial education in Michigan. The activities included (1) projects which invent a creative solution to a problem; (2) projects which demonstrate an exemplary program suitable for widespread use or a model to emulate; and (3) adoption of an exemplary…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles include studies of traditional and phonemic spelling of fifth and sixth grade students; the cloze procedure as a method of teaching spelling; the effect of the clinically supervised teacher upon language arts…

This resource bibliography contains abstracts of 67 documents about values clarification in population education. It is the third in a series of three bibliographies for the development of population education programs in the Philippines. Included are abstracts of books, periodical articles, ERIC documents, and unpublished theses. Most of the…

Intended for use in college-level secondary education methods courses, the module describes various curriculum models for teaching learning disabled students by means of lecture notes (in text form), an annotated bibliography, and overhead masters. The introduction identifies the five models considered: (1) basic skills training, (2) tutorial, (3)…

This annotated bibliography provides teacher educators and administrators with resources to use in planning and implementing pre- and inservice training for instructors serving limited-English proficient (LEP) vocational students. Described in the five sections of the bibliography are resources dealing with the following topics: instructor…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: a teacher training project offering a structured reading program as a model for the teaching of reading; relationships between students in traditional and competency-based reading methods…