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Lambour, Gary, Ed.; And Others – 1980
The booklet focuses on methods for institutionalizing innovative special education or other educational programs and was developed by the 1980 meeting of the Invisible College on the Institution of Change. An introductory section briefly considers the legal mandate of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) to supply all…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Uniterra, 1982
Presents selected decisions of general public interest made during the regular tenth session of the United Nations Environment Programme. Decisions relate to programme policy/implementation, regional programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, environmental perspectives in the future, impacts of apartheid on the environment, environmental law,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences
Uniterra, 1982
Presents principal resolutions adopted by the Session of a Special Character (SSC) of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme. Resolutions focus on achievements of Action Plan for Human Environment, new perceptions of environmental issues, environmental trends, and planning/implementation of environmental activities.…
Descriptors: Conferences, Depleted Resources, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences
Brennan, Jewel E. – 1978
Alcoholism is a problem of immense proportions. Views about alcoholism range from consideration of the problem as a moral weakness to the disease concept approach. Since the effects of alcoholic intake can be benevolent as well as toxic, the dilemma centers around alcohol usage. Various theories have been formulated, experimented with, and…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Behavioral Science Research, Clinics
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Lowe, Rosemary Hays; Wittig, Michele Andrisin – Journal of Social Issues, 1989
Integrates the major conclusions of the papers on comparable worth in this special issue, and identifies additional relevant issues. Covers the following major topics: (1) history and conceptual issues; (2) social psychological aspects to pay equity; (3) job evaluation issues and applications; and (4) policy implementation and implications. (JS)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
Shapira, R., Ed.; And Others – 1981
Issues and developments concerning the education of Israeli youth in residential schools are summarized in this report of a seminar which brought together educators from the United States and Israel. The first part of the report describes the residential school and gives its history as both part of a long tradition, and as it particularly evolved…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth