Going green? For many, this phrase has a definitive ending, such as an "!" or a strong "." For the authors, the journey began with the questions: (1) What should students be "learning" about sustainability?; and (2) How do we know that they "are" learning? Their journey to understand the relationship between student learning and sustainability…

The stated purpose of this report "is to give the reader a recent definition of general education, a college president's persepctive of general education and high technology, and sources the reader can examine for curriculum planning." The definition of general education is a paragraph quoted from Cohen and Brawer's book "The American Community…

The confusion concerning the meaning of the terms science and technology is readily apparent in the literature of various study groups concerned with the issue of technological literacy, including researchers working in the fields of mathematics, engineering, and education. The literature would suggest that rather than one relationship between…

Teaching is a very difficult field to master, and the challenges faced by beginning career and technical education (CTE) teachers are especially great. Teacher induction, which usually takes 5-6 years, is the total of all the teacher's experiences from the moment the first teaching contract is signed until the teacher is comfortably established as…

This document is designed to help literacy practitioners and others promote and establish family literacy programs to prepare adult learners in South Carolina for their roles as parents, workers, health consumers, and citizens. The rationale for promoting family literacy is explained. The following topics are discussed: a design for family…