Since independence, Timor-Leste has taken initiatives to improve adult literacy and successive governments, international NGOs and donor agencies have been involved in literacy programmes. This paper explores the non-formal literacy programmes with a particular focus on the Second Chance Education Project (SCEP), an accelerated learning model that…

This report serves as a legacy document for the Ford Foundation's More and Better Learning Time (MBLT) initiative. It summarizes the approaches to and outcomes and challenges of successful MBLT strategies around the country. The report includes data from a survey for Ford Foundation MBLT grantees across the country and from case studies in Denver,…

The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) funds schools located on 63 reservations in 23 states across the nation. Of the 183 schools, 59 are Bureau operated and 124 are tribally controlled. One-hundred and sixteen schools provide instructional programs, 55 provide instructional as well as boarding services and 12 peripheral dormitories provide only…

Following signals across Europe the European Students' Union (ESU) will focus its next working year on defending education as a public good, and a public responsibility. Since the very start of the new ESU team in July 2010 the ESU elected representatives have been working to develop a new political vision for the next ESU working year, that both…

The European Students' Union's (ESU's) vision regarding the Student Centered Learning concept stems from the fundamental belief that the learning process should have at its core learning objectives as they are prioritized by each individual students, also that each (potential) student should be empowered to define those objectives and progress…

The European Students' Union (ESU) feels the need to face the current crisis and to foster the student voice of all students across Europe. In this context its main priorities for 2012 will be: (1) Education as a public good; (2) Internal development; (3) Social dimension; and (4) Bologna and European cooperation. It is of great importance for ESU…

According to the author the following main problems face the teacher education centers that have been established in Florida: cooperation and effective communication among teachers, center educators and school authorities; alteration of existing organizational structures; and establishing a new approach to teacher education. (SE)

A PLANNED APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL CHANGE FOCUSES UPON THE INTERNAL FUNCTIONING OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. RESEARCH GENERALIZATIONS INDICATING CONDITIONS WHICH INFLUENCE LEARNING ARE CITED AS A BASIS FOR A CONCEPTUAL MODEL. FROM THIS MODEL, SOME ORGANIZATIONAL FUNCTIONS WHICH NEED TO BE DEVELOPED WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM ARE DERIVED. FIVE LEVELS OF…

Historical background and description of Frisch begonnen...", an audiovisual course in beginning German created in 1968 by the BBC. (RS)

A STUDY OF VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF MISSOURI, COMMISSIONED BY THE GOVERNOR, CONCERNED THE AVAILABILITY, THE CLIENTELE, THE CURRICULUM, THE RELATION OF ENROLLMENT TO EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, THE INVOLVEMENT OF PERSONS OUTSIDE THE SCHOOLS, AND ANCILLARY SERVICES OF THESE PROGRAMS. ITS OBJECTIVE WAS TO PROVIDE THE…

NCHEMS, National Center for Higher Management Systems, is a separate division of WICHE. Under the direction of a Board of Directors, who represent various sectors of postsecondary education, the NCHEMS staff works with a series of task forces and representatives of national associations to develop products for planners and managers. This document…

In the midst of all the criticism of today's schools, a few innovations in the educational process stand out as effective procedures for improving school programs. One such innovation is the House Plan which has improved the way educators view secondary school programs and instructing secondary school students. (Author)

All the people at Rhodes are optimistic that the humanistic approach of the house concept organization can offer students in large inner city schools the sense of family needed before any educational program can work. (For availability, see EA 507 405.) (Author/IRT)

Institutions are going to have to rely more on their own resources in responding appropriately to changes in their own educational environments. Describes models evolved by three independent schools for increasing their capacity to respond intelligently and imaginatively to new challanges and opportunities. (Author/RK)