This video focuses on chemical process technician education. It provides a look into the daily operations, available jobs, and background needed to enter this field. (KHR)

This document examines key leadership issues related to effective special education and reviews emerging standards in knowledge and skills for effective principal performance. An introduction notes school responsibility to provide students with disabilities with access to the general curriculum and ongoing monitoring of progress. The paper then…

This regional needs assessment has three objectives: (1) collect and analyze information with the goal of identifying emerging trends and issues in the Northwest that affect public education; (2) use the findings from this analysis as a basis for assessing perceptions of how significantly these issues impact their local schools; and (3) use these…

The Connecticut Academy for Education implemented the School Improvement Support Team (SIST) in the Waterbury, Connecticut, Public Schools during the 1998-99 school year. The main goal of the SIST is to provide a comprehensive and cohesive set of programs and activities for improving student performance in the Waterbury Public Schools. The…

The focus on schoolwide reform that grew from the failure of traditional Title I programs to raise student achievement overlooks one of the few effective Title I programs, the private remedial education partnership. Since the early 1900s, some public schools have begun relying on private remedial education companies, such as Sylvan Learning…

Students in an educational policy class at Auburn University became involved in policy advocacy for Professional Development Schools in the State of Alabama as part of their course work. Through the course, students learned about theory and practice of educational policy, Professional Development Schools and their policy needs, and the importance…

This book collects 42 papers on the role of the academic dean. Papers are grouped into sections on what a dean is, becoming a dean, curriculum, personnel, legal matters, finances, academic publications, and "real life." The papers are: "The Ethics of Deaning" (Charles Masiello); "Collegial Relations" (Len Clark);…

This document reports the results of a survey conducted in the summer of 1998. Community college districts in California was surveyed on their practices regarding local board education and development programs. Approximately 80% of the districts, or 57 districts, responded. The study found that less than one-third of the districts had a written…

Focus of these proceedings is placed on three strands: teaching and learning, policy, and professional development. Following the opening comments, "Charge to Mathematics Educators: What We Want in Mathematics Classrooms" (Margaret B. Cozzens), individual presentations include: "It Doesn't Add Up: African American Students'…

In 1996, the Environmental Education Council of Ohio (EECO) took the lead in developing a statewide plan to build Ohio's capacity--or Ohio's ability to provide leadership and resources--for environmental education. The goal for the project was to collaboratively develop and implement a statewide strategy for building Ohio's ability to promote…

The Colorado Partnership for Educational Renewal (CoPER) was formed in 1986 to cultivate the development of partner schools in the simultaneous renewal of schooling and the education of educators. The CoPER now includes 13 school districts and 6 institutions of higher education collectively engaged in work in more than 50 partner schools and other…

This workbook was created as a "do it yourself" tool for helping organizations and career counseling services develop policies and standards to enhance the quality of services. The process is aimed at helping articulate policies that are sensible for each organization and challenging and achievable by staff. It is intended to be a…

In 1995, a 5-year collaborative research and development project began examining conditions and practices in Kentucky schools that are linked most strongly with improvement in a school's writing score on the statewide portfolio assessment. An examination of over 1,200 schools with complete writing portfolio scores for 1992-96 identified 42 schools…

This evaluation report contains information on the teacher professional development (Teacher Reading Academies) and the Accelerated Reading Instruction program. According to the report, the evaluation design utilized case study research, survey research, focus groups, and analysis of administrative data and student information in producing the…

The question explored in this report is whether electronic networks are effective tools for creating and sustaining reflective teacher communities. Over the past two decades, computer mediated communication (CMC) technologies have been used in a variety of efforts aimed at fostering teacher learning and teacher collaboration. A study sought to…