Arguing that some books and documents must be conserved because they have scholarly value as well as for the information they contain, this report presents reasons for preserving such artifacts and recommends means of developing effective and efficient preservation strategies. Two strategies are suggested. The first advises identifying and ranking…

In the fall of 1989, the National Head Start Association convened a panel of distinguished advisors in an effort to develop recommendations for the future of Head Start. The panel met for 6 months to hear expert opinion and discuss task force reports and relevant policy documents. Over 70 witnesses testified at three hearings held in Washington,…

This manual provides guidelines for aquatic teachers of people with disabilities. It is based on experience in teaching American Red Cross Adapted Aquatics and is to be used to complement and accompany the Red Cross Adapted Aquatics materials. Emphasis is placed on successful experiences in a positive, safe, reinforcing environment stressing…

This volume presents papers that dicusss the need for more systematic and rigorous research programs to monitor the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Proficiency Guidelines and their various implementations. "A Progress Report on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, 1982-1986" (David V. Hiple), traces the…

A project was conducted at Delaware County Community College, Media, Pennsylvania, to train two instructional staff members in the area of composite materials technology. A 1-year training program was set up for the two technical instructional specialists at the Boeing Helicopter Training Center, Eddystone, Pennsylvania. The program consisted of…

The Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHAP) is entrusted with the tasks of coordinating, planning, and executing UNESCO's program for the development of social and human sciences in Asia and the Pacific. The activities conducted by RUSHAP during 1984 and 1985 are reported in this document. The activities…

The paper presents a protocol developed by the Child-Centered Inservice Training Project (Syracuse, New York) to provide inservice training and technical assistance for personnel working with children with severe disabilities in regular schools. The following topics are covered in outline format: (1) selection of target students; (2) the technical…

Educators have recently become more willing to realign the educational system. One approach is restructuring, which can take many forms. This study looks at three districts that restructured teaching, two with career ladders and one with shared governance. The reforms took two directions--professional and bureaucratic--which had important…

Schools in the Toronto (Ontario, Canada) area have established a Resource Teacher Service (RTS) to provide necessary educational program supports for physically disabled students, their teachers, and their schools when community school placements are indicated. The principles of intervention emphasized in the RTS include pragmatic forms of…

The purpose of this handbook is to guide rural school districts intending to establish a preschool program. The program described was established in the Trimble Local School District in the rural Appalachian area of northern Athens County, the third poorest district in Ohio. Contents concern: (1) the district's beliefs about children; (2)…

This report, the final publication of the Career Development Center (CDC), contains selected highlights of the transitional activities undertaken in 1981-82 by the CDC and the National Drug Abuse Center (NDAC). The theme of these activities has been "Capacity Building," defined as the ability of the states to continue and maintain the…

The Richmond City Public Schools-Virginia Commonweath University Collaborative Teacher Education Program (CoTEEP) is a collaborative integration of preservice and inservice teacher education. Phase IV of this program (1985-1986) planned and developed collaboration in school-based preservice education and continued prior collaboration in inservice…

A description is given of a client-based approach to staff development that emphasizes ongoing professional growth and learning for teachers. The underlying assumptions of the program are that teachers possess important clinical expertise, and that professional learning is an adaptive, heuristic process that is long-term and nonlinear. The program…

The following papers are included in this monograph that provides a synthesis on beginning teacher induction: (1) "Teacher Induction" (Leslie Huling-Austin); (2) "Local Induction Programs" (Ralph Kester and Mary Marockie); (3) "Statewide Teacher Induction Programs" (Parmalee Hawk and Shirley Robards); (4) "The…

This booklet reviews the developmental tasks and needs of infants and toddlers, describes the support for healthy development currently available in the United States, and documents needs which are not being met. Two major initiatives are proposed and strategies for their implementation are recommended. Proposals argue for the (1) establishment of…