Takes a look at the questions involved in designing customized training: What changes does management expect to see as the result of training? Who has information that must be included and excluded? How "customized" should the training be? and How will the training be delivered? (CT)

Describes a resource teacher's efforts to implement a program to improve reading at the secondary level in a Florida school. Offers activities used in the program. (FL)

Describes a writing skills program intended for pre-professional students preparing to enter Texas Wesleyan College. (FL)

Describes how adjunct courses can encourage students to see writing as a process of discovery and creation. (CRH)

The old Citizenship Training has reappeared as Community Living Camp and has found a place in the curriculum of the University of Calicut. Among the affiliated colleges of the University of Calicut, the Government College of Teacher Education, Kozhikode was the first to conduct the camp. This report of the camp throws light on the conditions that…

Overviews UNESCO's 36 years of experience. Describes how the United States interacts with UNESCO. Discusses program planning, the education program for 1981-1983, UNESCO's working methods (the regular budget supports state-of-the-art studies, international conferences and training sessions, and on-site specialized assistance), and the regional…

Describes the program of the University of South Carolina's college of general studies development center, which was created in order to improve student reading skills. (FL)

Issues of concern to the reform of preparation programs for kindergarten through twelfth grade educational administrators involve the questions of program control, program substance, and incentives for reform. Control of school administrator preparation lies within state licensing procedures. Substance focuses on subject matter to be taught.…

Outlines procedures, goals, and teacher preparation for New York University's expository writing program. Notes that the program's distinguishing features are that all freshmen are grouped according to their abilities for two semesters of composition instruction and that all undergraduates take a junior-year writing proficiency test. (RL)

Provides the rationales, goals, and procedures for three levels of English writing instruction for foreign students attending United States unversities. (RL)

Describes the process followed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in implementing an oral communication across the curriculum core requirement. Discusses program adaptation, oral intensive guidelines, basic course structure, implementation recommendations, preparing faculty, identifying and meeting faculty need, and evaluation of pilot courses.…

This article traces the evolution of graduate study in psychology in the United States and Canada during the past 3 decades. The authors summarize the 2003-2004 characteristics of graduate programs and departments in psychology and compare these data to those obtained in 1970-1971, 1979-1980, and 1992-1993. The most recent data were obtained from…

The underlying foundations for all elements of this "Cree Language and Culture 12-year Program Guide to Implementation (Kindergarten to Grade 3)" are Cree values--those viewpoints and ways of being that characterize the Cree way of life. They are as important today in educating students in the Cree language and culture as they have ever…

A description is given of a distance education program designed to up-grade and complete the education of teachers in Egypt, the majority of whom have not completed their education through the university level. Television and other audio-visual aids are used as communication media. Educational programs are televised daily to these teachers. Though…

E.S.C.A.P.E., the Educational Studies Center for Adapted Physical Education, provides opportunities for laboratory and clinical experience, theory development, and practicum involvement to undergraduate and graduate physical education majors at the California State University/Los Angeles. Operated in conjunction with the Department of Physical…