This brief document provides the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) mission statement, information about AACC as an organization, AACC departments, contacts, projected revenues and expenditures 2004-2005. It also includes a section on community college facts "at a glance," which provides statistics on the number and type of…

Head Start is a comprehensive federal preschool program, serving children prenatal through age 5 and their families with the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families. Noting that the program has typically garnered strong support from political liberals and moderates, this position paper of the…

The Committee for Economic Development (CED), an independent research and policy organization of approximately 250 business leaders and educators, issued this report as a statement calling on federal and state governments to make early education available to all children age three and over. The statement maintains that in order to ensure that all…

During the middle school years, young adolescent students can use reading to help answer profound questions about themselves and the world. It is during the middle school years that most students refine their reading preferences; become sophisticated readers of informational text; and lay the groundwork for the lifelong reading habits they will…

This position paper on teaching children to read explains with several examples exactly what "quagmires" are and how they hamper children as they learn the elements of reading basics. The paper takes a multidisciplinary approach to attacking stumbling blocks to learning most often experienced by child learners. To explain the concept of quagmire,…

Examines the maxim commonly held and generally supported in the divorce therapy literature that the preferred treatment in divorce therapy is individual counseling, and considers conjoint and family treatment as viable alternatives. Assesses how a therapist's theory of divorce therapy dictates the treatment unit adopted. (JAC)

Discusses the role and importance of the arts for education and society, arguing that the arts are not fluff to be eliminated from resource-limited curriculums, but are an important aspect of stimulating human imagination, thinking processes and the ability to feel. (WAS)

Comprehensive, well-organized governance manuals are seen as being needed by all universities. The comprehensive consolidation and codification of mandates by which the University of Nebraska is governed is described. (MLW)

Describes and discusses the development of the National Art Education Association's new policy document, "Purposes, Principles, and Standards for School Art Programs." (RM)

Constitutions and bylaws of the American Association of Dental Schools are presented, covering organization name, statement of purpose, administrative organization, offices, membership, legislative and administrative bodies, elected and appointed officers, regular and special sessions, sections, publications, election, and finance. (MSE)

A policy statement on retirement and insurance plans formulated by the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges is presented. Retirement plans are seen to attract individuals, permit them to devote their energies to the profession, and to provide for an orderly retirement. (MLW)

Introduces a position statement developed jointly by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education to identify criteria for developing, adopting, and using early learning standards. Identifies features of effective early learning standards.…

These position statements by the Policies Commission for Business and Economic Education address ways in which business teachers should (1) take a leadership role in initiating, implementing, and assessing partnerships and (2) ensure that students achieve content mastery and develop value-added skills. (SK)

The position paper contains recommendations for the certification of early childhood special educators serving children (ages birth-five) with special needs and their families. Following a discussion of background issues, the paper proposes a two-level certification structure for generalists and specialists, essential content areas of study, and…

Discusses the Wyoming Conference Resolution, which calls on the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee to formulate professional standards for postsecondary writing teachers; and set up grievance procedures against, and to establish means to censure, institutions which fail to comply with these standards. Appends…