An environmental education (EE) consortium located in the pacific northwest United States coalesced an external evaluation team to research its K-5 EE programming. The purpose of this article is to describe one phase of this program evaluation process including the exploration of adult stakeholder perceptions of EE programming accessed by 4th…

California's Proposition 227, or the Unz Initiative, had as its main focus the requirement that English learners be taught only in English, based on the belief that these children could learn English in one year. This led to the dismantling of many bilingual programs in K-12 schools across California. A team of faculty from California State…

This article describes a fifth year program evaluation of a private provider program for teacher certification in Louisiana. The study sought to evaluate the success of the Teach Louisiana Consortium program in terms of teacher placement, teacher retention, administrative satisfaction, teacher attitudes, and teacher pedagogical knowledge. Initial…

This paper highlights several current collaborative activities of the National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC). There are many specific examples of TA (Technical Assistance) collaborations that take place on a regular basis; the seven examples presented here were selected to represent different types of collaboration. The…

New principals need support and assistance during the formative years of their careers. School districts can provide some level of support but there are organizations that offer programs to help new principals learn the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need in order to be successful on the job. One such program, The Recently Appointed…

Since the summer 1984 a consortium of seven diverse colleges and universities has been involved in implementing a value-added approach to assessing student progress and development. The most significant finding of this collaborative project was the importance of having a good institutional database on students. (MLW)

The Ohio Urban University Program, a consortium of eight universities, is a collaborative program of research, training, planning, database development, and technical assistance serving Ohio's major metropolitan areas. It has developed an evaluation system to assess the effectiveness of and help improve its outreach services. The system's…

The Rural Community Assistance Consortium (RCAC) was established to increase member schools' ability to attract and maintain funded programs and qualified resource personnel to upgrade human and community resources in rural areas. The RCAC consists of 15 predominantly black land-grant colleges and Tuskegee Institute in 15 southern and border…

This publication consists of a number of papers that discuss the development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to integrate general and special education administration. The publication deals primarily with the work of the General-Special Education Administration Consortium (GSEAC), a long-term cooperative effort involving 25 higher…

The Academic Foundations Department at Rutgers Camden College sponsored an Educational Consortium in Instruction during the 1974-75 academic year. The purpose of the consortium was: (1) to promote a closer unity between the academic disciplines, educators in the urban community, students, and the academic support department; (2) to focus on the…

The U.S. Department of Energy sponsored an energy education communications network from August, 1980 through November 1981 for educators and information specialists who deal with K-12 students, vocational training, adult and postsecondary education, and the general public in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. As a final report, this…

To improve preparation of personnel in career education, a project conducted by Oregon's Interinstitutional Consortium for Career Education (ICCE) focused on three areas: staff development for college and university faculties; program development for teacher, counselor, and administrator preparation; and teacher certification and training program…

Senate Bill 642, passed by the California legislature in 1973, authorized the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to conduct a pilot program in cooperative education involving no more than five community college districts for a period of up to three years. Pursuant to the law, the Chancellor has included Coast, Hartnell, Pasadena,…

This report provides data on the goals and outcomes of a consortium established in 1994 by public and private safety agencies and community colleges in California. The opening sections describe the formation of the consortium, indicating that its main goals are to reduce duplication of public safety course offerings at adjacent locations; create…

A report on the New York City Central Labor Council-Consortium for Worker Education Workplace Literacy Program documents 15 workplace literacy program activities undertaken by 16 unions. The report has five sections. The first section covers the history and socioeconomic context in which the state-funded program emerged, and the roles of the two…