This publication provides Peace Corps volunteers and others who conduct environmental education activities in schools, environmental education centers, parks, and communities with the tools to adapt existing environmental education resources to local environmental issues, cultures, and audiences. Sections include: (1) the process of adapting…

Change efforts should be guided with a systemic understanding of the context in which they are undertaken. Depending on the circumstance, or as the implementation effort progresses, it may be most effective to focus interventions on a particular component of the framework at a time. This ERIC digest presents a sequence for approaching the major…

Legislators and community leaders have the responsibility to develop policies and make informed decisions to ensure that new technologies will enhance, and not frustrate, learning. That is why Congress established the Web-based Education Commission that for the past year has been chairing an effort exploring ways in which the Internet is changing…

Many districts are struggling with the problem of administrator retention. Hoffman (2004) identifies some of the reasons for this: (1) Increased accountability expectations; (2) Diminished or static levels of resources to support reform efforts; (3) Greater administrator vulnerability to sanctions; (4) The complex demands of government and the…

This monograph is an idea book for two-year institutions thinking of adding an honors program to their list of academic offerings, and as such aspires to provide a useful description of the many options available to honors education for the several audiences who, as a matter of course, may become stakeholders in the operation of a two-year college…

Reviews the results of a number of national opinion surveys concerning school integration, integration methods, and race relations; several Supreme Court and other federal court decisions; and, various developments in 16 states, on a state-by-state basis. (JM)

The author analyzes the question of the resource center being another educationist's dream, foredoomed by the conditions imposed by its own nature. The difficulties in making resource centers a reality are discussed. (HB)

The construction of 55 new learning resource centers is briefly analyzed. (SM)

Author attempts to understand the dimensions of the teaching art. He examines common sense and the cumulative teaching experience as two facets of that art. (Author/RK)

Article considers the newest instructional aids and trends in community colleges. (RK)

The text of an address to the National Policy Conference on Education for Blacks, held in Arlington, Virginia, March 29-April 1, 1972. (JM)

Outlines the principles that have evolved in recent years for the equitable distribution of intergovernmental funds and explains some of the problems to be encountered by the Federal government in effectively incorporating these principles in their distribution of educational aid. (Author/JM)

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)

In your expanding program of agribusiness and natural resource occupations, can you afford to ignore this wealth of teaching tools that will make learning more realistic to your students? (Editor)

The Academic Faculties and departments need freedom and should not be tightly organized along a bureaucratic or government administrative pattern. (IR)