Some recommendations to encourage effective marketing of continuing education programs are presented, and the use of strategic planning to develop programs is discussed. A marketing management program is seen as necessary for adding depth, substance, and integrity to continuing education programs. (MLW)

Presents tips on developing an internship program for geography students on the college level. Information is presented on program initiation, development, alternative approaches, advantages and disadvantages of various approaches, objectives, and program operation. (Author/DB)

Discusses general guidelines for systematically allocating limited resources by separating educational goals, determining priorities, and assigning to each those resources that serve it best. (MLH)

Career education in Illinois since 1971 is briefly discussed. The author suggests that it is time to take a different direction in favor of a broader definition for career education to realize the full potential of the movement toward the accomplishment of educational reform. (TA)

Older adults participate in education to fulfil coping, expressive, contributive, influence, and transcendence needs. Learning can promote sustained mental functioning and increase self-efficacy and social support. (Contains 15 references.) (SK)

Article expanded on two programs designed to help the classroom teacher learn and experience bilingual-bicultural activities. (Author/RK)

This report summarizes the activities of a planning workshop dealing with school-based education on elevated blood cholesterol. The workshop brought together a group of professionals in a collaborative planning process designed to identify: (1) the current level of knowledge about blood cholesterol nutrition, and diet among school-age children;…

The ability of debate coaches and instructors to define the goals of their activity is essential to any meaningful evaluation of success in achieving those goals. Much of the criticism of debate rests on the faulty assumption that coaches and instructors agree as to what they are trying to teach students. Numerous writers have addressed the…

With the aim of providing a framework for developing successful staff development programs, 12 propositions, or statements of intent and commitment, are set forth in this paper. The first set of propositions states the guiding principles underlying the concept of staff development. The second set offers propositions for planninng staff development…

This document offers a comprehensive study of the present status and future needs of the public schools in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Chapter I defines educational planning and concepts of and guidelines for such planning. The processes used in developing educational plans and the organization of the document are also described. In Chapter II…

In the architecture and arrangement of the physical plant, in the organization of its programs, and in the activities of its faculty and staff Moraine Valley Community College embodies a distinctive philosophy of education. (Author/RK)

Author outlined a spelling program designed to take the predictability out of learning to spell. (RK)

The purpose of this paper is to present a rationale and objectives for NIE's education and work priority area, to discuss the status of current R&D activities within this area, and to describe possible future efforts that are now under discussion. (Author)