This paper describes a successful learning community and curricular experiments with basic writing implemented on a college campus as an example of curricular structures that enable faculty and staff to work together to address students' individual needs. The paper begins by discussing learning communities as effective and flexible institutional…

The report evaluates a special initiative of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Department of Education of Northern Ireland (DENI) in 1996-1997 and 1998-1999 to encourage institutions to develop high quality provisions for students with disabilities and to increase the participation in higher education of students…

The Advisory Board of the Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse suggests six characteristics that define effective literacy coaching. These characteristics can guide districts and schools to think carefully about the qualifications of the literacy coaches they hire, the realistic roles for coaches to fill, and the support systems that coaches need to be…

New math attempted to achieve better performance through greater understanding; but it has not done as good a job of achieving this goal for the middle 60 percent and lowest 20 percent of the students as it has for the top 20 percent. Current objectives need to be reworked and revised. (Author/WM)

Discusses innovative teacher education programs designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of present day public schools. (Author/RK)

What should schools be doing about the drug problem? Less of what they're doing -- saying no without offering anything to say yes to. (Editor)

Article describes a creative approach to industrial drafting programs combined with new courses designed to test the students' imagination and curiosity. (Author/RK)

Various programs describe how rural development in underdeveloped nations is effectively increased by close cooperation between the extension agents and the farmers. (JB)

Describes the circumstances under which the Wilmington, Delaware, community school program was born, its developmental plans, program objectives, and the procedure by which program performance could be evaluated. Specific objectives are evaluated and recommendations for program development are made. (DN)

After reviewing the strengths and shortcomings of current programs, the authors conclude that the key to a humane and reasonable system lies in the recognition and exploitation of the interdependence of work and welfare. (Editor)

Discusses the competence and productivity of American labor which the author ascribes to the effectiveness of training. (EK)

The authors address themselves to the need for interaction between school personnel and community patrons to achieve a schooled environment." (Author/BY)

Based on a paper delivered at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges in November 1969. (IR)

Explores the nature of experiential deficiency pattern to suggest a preliminary model for assessing it and then considers whether and how experiential learning strategies can be accommodated to the experiential deficiencies of hearing impaired students. (Author)