In its relatively short lifetime, the European Community has implemented a responsive, developing educational policy addressing many social and economic issues affecting the life of the community. An emphasis on teaching the European dimension is aimed at increasing understanding of the community itself and mutual understanding among fellow…

Discusses three approaches to building intelligent systems: artificial intelligence, neural networks, and behavior analysis. BANKET, an object-oriented software system, is explained; a commercial application of BANKET is described; and a collaborative effort between the academic and business communities for the use of BANKET is discussed.…

Reviews activities of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) during 1993, including strategic planning for the future; a professional development seminar in distance education; an expanded publications program; key discussion topics; and work with other organizations to promote the use of instructional technology.…

Certified school counselors, because of their educational training and requirements, have considerable knowledge about human development, assessment techniques, team planning and implementation strategies, career education, future work force needs, and community resources. This article shows how the counselor's role can be expanded to serve the…

Describes the academic unit for which the Integrated Information Center (IIC) was originally developed--the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota--and the information environment within which the IIC operates, including the university libraries, academic computing services and systems, and administrative…

Born out of a 1981 murder, Buffalo (New York) Public Schools' EPIC (Effective Parenting Information for Children) program successfully combines parenting, effective teaching, and community programs to help family and school life support each other. Under EPIC, teachers are advised to help students acquire 23 skills involving self-esteem, rules,…

In 1989, the Ontario (Canada) government established Teacher Education Council, charged with promoting collaboration in teacher education and with Ministry advisement functions. Composed of four members from each major stakeholder group (school boards, teachers' federations, universities, and government), the council addressed various teacher…

Rural areas are hard-pressed to finance education, because incomes are lower and fiscal resources are less available. Problems in crop farming, energy mining, and textile manufacturing counties are taking their toll on rural Americans. Because local governments cannot maintain existing services, the time is right to reformulate federal rural…

Through their involvement with the Coalition of Essential Schools, the two high school teachers profiled here reenergized their daily lives and motivated their students toward exciting learning gains. Both teachers changed their practices because their students were not responding as they had hoped. Students' roles have also changed, as they…

This paper discusses the importance of interagency coordination in developing services for young children with handicaps and their families. It suggests strategies to improve the functioning of interagency coordinating councils by considering council membership, role definition, goal commitment, vision of the early intervention system, and use of…

Describes collaboration between Phineas Bates School and Washington-Beech Community Preschool in Boston, which links public housing families with preschool children to nearby elementary school. Lack of child care often prevents parents from working or furthering their own education. By integrating early childhood education with child care, program…

The Cleveland (Ohio) Collaborative for Mathematics Education has rejuvenated the teachers, who have benefited from increased participation in decision making and productive forms of collegiality. Despite these gains, math curriculum and instruction remains heavily influenced by systematic programing, traditional teaching and learning conceptions,…

This article considers ways for schools and community-based youth organizations to build on each other's strengths, respond explicitly to youthful realities, and incorporate the attributes of learning environments found most effective. Over the past decade, CBOs have been creating and maintaining institutions that are highly educational and keenly…

The purpose of this study was to develop an information filtering system which collects, classifies, selects, and stores various kinds of information found through the Internet. A collaborative form of information gathering was examined and a model was built and implemented in the Internet information space. (AEF)

Hispanic and Native-American seasonal Park Service employees in the Southwest are training younger local workers in masonry preservation in a National Park Service effort to establish a ruins preservation program. These new technicians will also learn to document, photograph, and report on preservation activities and follow legal administrative…