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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) cognitive style and the reading of children in second grade; (2) the effect of increased review in teaching sight words to average and poor readers; (3)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Doctoral Dissertations
Miklich, Beverly – 1981
The issues, organizational changes, and institutional reactions that colleges and universities perceive as associated with implementation of new marketing practices were identified in a review of the literature and interviews with officials from 25 institutions primarily in or near Los Angeles, California. Several trends were revealed: successful…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Change, Change Strategies, College Administration
Gotts, Edward E., Ed. – 1977
This training manual for home visitor trainers and trainees was developed for use in home-based preschool programs. The notebook is part of a learning package which instructs prospective family workers, family worker trainers, and parents in the entry level skills, knowledge, and orientations needed to provide children from birth through 8 years…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education, Home Instruction
Peltason, J. W., Ed.; Massengale, Marcy V., Ed. – 1978
Drawn from papers presented at the sixtieth Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education, this volume represents the collective knowledge and experiences of 26 higher education leaders. Nine areas of concern to higher education are treated in depth: higher education in the future, the cost of a college education, students as consumers,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Books, Career Education, College Role
Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1978
Higher education in Southern Europe was the topic of a symposium sponsored by the Council for Cultural Co-operation of the Council of Europe. The following speeches were presented: "Problems of Expansion and Change in Higher Education: An English View," by Lord James of Rusholme, United Kingdom; "The German Advisory Council for…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Admission, College Curriculum, College Environment
Davis, Frances R. A., Ed.; Parker, Robert P., Jr., Ed. – 1978
The 15 articles in this book focus upon the major literacy issues raised by the Bullock Committee in Great Britain and offer reflections upon these issues by United States and British educators who work daily with literacy problems. The articles cover the following topics: the Bullock Committee's work, providing for language growth in young…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research
Garrett, Geraldine H.; And Others – 1979
Six papers exploring Project TREAT (an alternative for the treatment of emotionally disturbed children) are presented. The first "Project TREAT and the Memphis City Schools Mental Health Center" (J. Paavola). The paper outlines the services provided by the center and explores methods of classroom management used by the city schools along…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Behavior Patterns
James, Sally E.; Brooks, Joseph T. – 1974
Most treaties negotiated with Indian tribes between 1778 and 1868 contain a clause insuring that the federal government will provide Indians with full educational opportunity in exchange for their ceded lands. This promise has not been fulfilled. Indian students are dropping out of Washington schools at rates estimated between 38-60 percent;…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Civil Rights, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education
Simmons, Helen M. – 1977
Designed to assist professionals who are confronted with clients in need of financial guidance, this financial counseling manual is presented in seven chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on the helping relationship and discusses counselor attitudes, client characteristics, making contacts, and interviewing. Chapter 2 explains the causes of over-extension…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Budgeting, Consumer Education, Counseling
This booklet contains learning activities to assist students in understanding why people work and in choosing an occupation to match their career goals. Its eight unipacs (or units) require the students to (1) choose among alternative life styles, occupations, and goals and explain their preferences; (2) develop a system of personal value…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Education, Competency Based Education
Warner, Pearl M. – 1975
The need and strategies for foreign language educators to reach out beyond the classroom to communicate to all relevant groups about the benefits of foreign language study are discussed. The central focus is school and community relations, including communication with counselors, administrators, and school boards. Teacher-student relations,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Mathis, B. Claude, Ed.; Holbrook, Steven T., Ed. – 1974
A conference on the improvement of teaching in higher education reached the conclusion that colleges and universities need the help of a larger community than that of their own institutional settings. Professional associations, foundations, and the federal government share the responsibility for initiation of both research and development efforts.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Role, Cooperative Programs
Adamson, Bill – 1978
The Bakke case raised profound and critical issues for America, and the results of the Supreme Court decision will extend far beyond flaws in medical admissions policies. The Bakke decision is an economic one, with which affirmative action programs are incompatible; affirmative action programs involve a degree of economic engineering that the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Equal Education, Government Role
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Social Studies Curriculum Study Committee. – 1973
The booklet contains political education materials drawn from Wisconsin state and Federal government legislation, newspaper articles, and publications from political interest groups and educational organizations. The main purpose of the document is to help educators design and implement political science and citizenship education programs in…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Civics, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Whitehead, John S. – 1978
Part of a series of studies on higher education in different countries, this paper examines the organization of higher education in Denmark, the growth of the system, the nature of the parliamentary legislation of the 1970's, and the Danish system from the standpoint of institution-building. There are three state-supported sectors of higher…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Environment, College Role, Comparative Education
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