The concept of lifelong learning is generally defined as the expansion of formal and informal education from the relatively exclusive life stage of youth and early adulthood. This presentation has two stated purposes: (1) to demonstrate that the success of current proposals for lifelong learning will be highly dependent on their integration with…

A reform in the grant-in-aid system passed in Illinois in the summer of 1973 was evaluated. The State Changed on that date from a foundation system to a district power equalization system. Operational definitions of fiscal policy goals, such as fiscal neutrality and permissible variance of expenditures, were established and measurements taken…

Presented are notes taken from a 6-week inservice training program for 30 teachers and 30 paraprofessionals who work with deaf-blind children. Entries are divided into two sections--lectures and minicourses--and include the following titles: "Piaget" (V. Robinson), "Dichotic Listening--Research and Applications" (B. Franklin), "Curriculum Ideas…

This unit explores the roles of women today and the possible effects of social, political, and economic equality for women on students' personal lives, the nation, and the world. Thirteen activities are designed to help secondary students develop an understanding of the status of women in U.S. society as compared with other cultures. These…

This report summarizes a study published in 1967 by Harvard University which assessed foreign language proficiency of U.S. college seniors majoring in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian. The measures used were the following: the MLA Foreign Language Proficiency Tests (Form A): Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing; the Modern…

Contained here are the technical appendices to the report on Project LONGSTEP's methodology and findings. The general emphasis of Project LONGSTEP was on the identification of changes in student achievement that occur as a result of intensive educational innovation. Its primary purpose was to analyze overall differences in achievement growth among…

This is the final report of the Ancona Montessori Research Project for Culturally Disadvantaged Children begun in 1965 to investigate the effects of a modified Montessori program for disadvantaged children in the preschool and early elementary years. This report deals with the academic year 1969-1970, in which 29 disadvantaged children and a…

This paper describes a project designed to facilitate the rapid movement of adult students from the classroom into vocational training, jobs, or higher education. The project deals with junior and senior high school dropouts, some from New York and some from Puerto Rico. The basic premise of the program is that, while these students return to…

This is a summary in outline form of the English language teaching situation in Nepal. Among the educated Nepalese, English has for a number of years been almost a second language. Its chief uses are as a medium of instruction in certain subjects at degree level, as the principal language for the growing tourist industry and as the medium of…

Implications of the Higher Education Amendments are summarized regarding student aid, facilities, child care, libraries, community development, continuing and cooperative education, developing institutions, disadvantaged students, education research and development, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, graduate education,…

The Holmes Group report and the Carnegie Task Force report concur on the American problem of decreasing standards for entry into teaching during times of teacher shortage. This article compares and contrasts the two reports, refers to similar proposals, and raises issues not covered in either report. Four footnotes are appended. (IW)

The 1984-85 proceedings of the American Association of Dental Schools summarize various committee proposals and projects concerning admissions, recruitment, financial aid, institutional administration and finance, curriculum development, interassociation cooperation, information gathering, government affairs, awards, and membership information.…

Educational changes enacted by four Swiss cantons regarding the following are summarized: educational objectives, right to education, public/private schools, school structure, compulsory education, class size, holidays, fees, parent/pupil participation, guidance services, insurance, financial support, curricula, teaching methods, disciplinary…

The "No Child Left Behind Act" of 2001 crystallized the concern for accountability in education. National testing was mandated as a way to improve the "broken" educational system. Publicly funded early education programs were not spared from such testing. While the positive effects of high-quality early education on children's…

The U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education (who co-chair the NSTC Working Group) and NetDay formed a partnership aimed at analyzing K-12 student views about technology for learning. These views are analyzed in this second report, "Visions 2020.2: Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies." In…