Every music educator is an advocate for music education. Members of the The National Association for Music Education (MENC) advocate for the cause of music education. Beginning right in the classroom and moving beyond it to community leaders state decision makers, music teachers have spheres of influence where they can cultivate support for music…

A particle technology design problem incorporating population balance modeling was developed and assigned to senior and first-year graduate students in a Particle Science and Technology course. The problem focused on particle collection, with a pipeline agglomerator, Cyclone, and baghouse comprising the collection system. The problem was developed…

Many graduate creative writing programs depend on "star" faculty who have been hired more because of their professional reputation as writers than because of their commitment to teaching. As a result, such programs often fail to provide reflection on teaching that would truly serve their students. One step toward alleviating this problem is to…

This article is based on the perceptions of California State University administrators and provides a comparative study of the challenges and benefits resulting from the implementation of the teaching performance assessment requirement of SB 2042 standards 19-21 on the California State University (CSU) campuses. With 23 campuses and almost 450,000…

"The demographics of families in poverty around the globe may be diverse, but parents' dreams for their children are similar everywhere: good health, a good education, economic stability, and a better future." This new report from the Bernard van Leer Foundation and Ascend at The Aspen Institute develops a "two generation"…

The Missouri State Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education are dedicated to ensuring that all children have access to good schools that prepare them for college and career success. The Missouri School Improvement Program: Support and Intervention Plan takes a differentiated approach to state support based on…

Based on the belief that UHF improvement is both possible and necessary, public television and commercial UHF broadcasters are getting together to work on it. (Author)

The special projects for improvement in nurse training listed here were funded by the Division of Nursing for the period June 1965 to June 1978. The list is arranged alphabetically by state, city, institution, and project. Each entry includes the following: grant code number, project period, institution name and address, project title, project…

This review of a research institute's evaluation of the national Follow Through program asserts that both the contracting office and the research institute failed to adequately specify the kind of study intended and the functions which it proposed to serve. One of several kinds of evaluation studies might have been undertaken: (1) a research…

A panel was formed for the purpose of evaluating those attributes of instructional film and instructional television programs which affect learning behavior. This is the fourth of a series of general, special, and varied reports of a project whose aim is to examine the "Conditions, Requirements, and Variables Affecting the Quality of Complex…

This document reports on the activities of educational consultants involved in the appraisal of the Evaluator Development Program. Included are (1) consultant suggestions for program improvement, (2) a tabulation of consultant responses to task items on the consultant form, (3) a list of consultants, and (4) materials used during the evaluation…

Physical educators send the message that learning is for the classroom, while activity is for the gymnasium. Knowledge about sport, exercise, and movement can be uniquely and appropriately disseminated in the gym. Physical education can blend learning with doing, theory with practice, education with experience, and reflection with action. (MT)