This digest describes the population of migrant farmworkers, some of their educational challenges, and programs currently available to serve them. Challenges cited include the constant mobility of migrant farm workers as they follow the crops, lack of a national record system to track the progress of adults, lack of transportation, and lack of…

Despite lack of money and time, schools in the eighties are going to make changes. For this reason, educators are being forced to look again at the lessons of the innovations of the seventies. This paper discusses research done on those innovations, both the ones that succeeded and the ones that failed. A discussion of costs is followed by a…

Presents a brief introduction to literature-based reading instruction. Presents annotations of 15 conference papers, books, and journal articles in the ERIC database and published between 1990 and 1992 on the topic. (RS)

Is it possible to develop an international consensus on the meaning of democracy and education for democratic citizenship? A cooperative project administered by the Center for Civic Education (CCE) in Calabasas, California is attempting to answer this question. Since 1996, the CCE has been developing "An International Framework for Education…

Presents annotations of nine conference papers and practica in the ERIC database that deal with spelling research in the primary grades. Notes that the entries in the annotated bibliography were published between 1990 and 1992. (RS)

Despite recognition of the importance of good nutrition for children's cognitive development, many children in America are poorly nourished. This digest reviews programs designed to address this problem and suggests ways to improve child nutrition and school meal programs. Federal programs administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the…

Development of numerous materials projects and programs is a continuing characteristics of environmental education. Most have been modest, local in scope, and short-lived. But in recent years many have become more ambitious, substantive, and sophisticated, more effectively designed and better positioned to make significant educational impacts on…

The author describes the Mentor Academy Program (MAP) a skill-based model for training gifted high school students as mentors and thereby becoming leaders in processing information and networkers creating and sharing information. Chapter 1 offers historical and philosophical, gifted education, and high school perspectives to stewardship (the dual…

The report, based on a conference presentation on the exceptional Black child, includes two papers on potentially gifted and talented Black students. The first, "The Identification and Assessment of Black Gifted/Talented Children in Washington, D.C. Public Schools," (P. Blackshear), traces the evolution of the identification effort over a three…

Presents annotations of 13 conference papers, journal articles, and other documents from the ERIC database (published between 1988 and 1991) that discuss general aspects of writing across the curriculum and writing to learn, as well as strengths and weaknesses of specific programs. (RS)

This Digest describes several programs designed to foster successful school reform, and examines the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) Program, recently approved by Congress. Whole-school (or comprehensive) reform includes a cross-disciplinary set of nationwide and local programs, dedicated to the intellectual and personal nurturing…

This Digest describes factors that may restrict access to adult literacy education in North America and discusses several potential solutions to these problems from programs that have aimed to provide adult literacy instruction to specific minority groups. Although the barriers and potential solutions apply to all minority groups, two populations…

Since the end of World War II, the United States has provided haven for nearly two million refugees who were involuntarily displaced from their homelands. In addition, during the last several decades, over one million legal immigrants have also found their way into the United States. Although the proportion of elderly may be small among these…

Written by computer specialists, teachers, parents, and students, the 23 articles emphasize the role computers play in the development of thinking, problem solving, and creativity in gifted and talented students. Articles have the following titles and authors: "Computers and Computer Cultures" (S. Papert); "Classroom Computers--Beyond the 3 R's"…

The author examines the current low level of vocational training for mentally retarded adults and describes a program at the University of Washington in which 63 retarded adults were trained as food service workers. The project was replicated in a collaborative arrangement between a sheltered workshop/activity center and a local hospital. The…