This self-study was conducted at Front Range Community College (Colorado) and completed under the provisions of the Colorado 1996 Higher Education Quality Assurance Act. The report is divided into six sections, one for each required accountability indicator: (1) Business Partnerships and Satisfaction; (2) Faculty and Staff Development; (3)…

This paper reports on an ongoing project at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) to implement an interactive online multimedia World Wide Web site for communicating research and development results. The value of multimedia for activating rich knowledge structures is documented in the literature. However, using multimedia as a communication…

This report presents information regarding the staff, students, degrees conferred, income, expenditures, endowment, and physical plant facilities of the land-grant colleges and universities, for the academic year 1950-51. The facts are presented both for the individual institutions, and for the Nation as a whole. The present report, required by…

In August 1887, William Duncan, an independent missionary working among the Tsimpsean Indians of British Columbia, brought to Annette Islands, in the southeastern part of Alaska, a colony of between 800 and 1,000 of Indians from the old town of Metlakatla in British Columbia. Under the leadership of Mr. Duncan, this colony made rapid progress. In…

This publication contains statistics of private high schools and academies reporting to the bureau for the school year ending June, 1926. Reports were received from 2,350 schools, an increase of 226 over the number reporting in 1924. This increase is due to a larger number of complete reports rather than to an increase in the number of…

Suggests that schoolboards exercise as a priority task their responsibility to serve as strong links between the schools and the public. Offers a recipe for an "accountability" annual report. (Author/WM)

Teachers appear to decide whether or not to promote girls partly on the basis of their behavior and not just on their achievement. Study compared boys and girls and their respective behaviors in the classroom as they influenced teachers to promote or retain them. (Author/RK)

The resource room concept need not be considered as merely an alternative learning environment for handicapped children but can aid in the improvement of general education so that fewer children need specialized services and in the provision of services for children who still require specialized instruction. (DB)

Article represents the general consensus of various educational developments relevant to the growth of community and junior colleges that educational delegates discussed at an annual meeting. (RK)

This synopsis of discussions at the Centenary Conference of the (British) Mathematical Association, April 1971, includes the views of six speakers on likely curriculum developments for learners at all levels. (MM)

Discusses the goals, strategy, and outcomes of eight 2-day regional forums which focused on the role industrial arts education could play in cooperation with other groups to move toward solving some of our sociological and technological problems. (SB)

A random sample of 330 members of the Association of Teacher Educators evaluated that organization's national journal, "Action in Teacher Education." Findings of the survey are reported, including a breakdown of the ratings given to various sections of the journal. (PP)