Choosing the "right" type of technology, either synchronous or asynchronous, to facilitate learning outcomes is a new challenge as the pace of emerging technologies increases and diversifies. Teachers are encouraged to design courses that require collaboration in online learning communities to facilitate the development of higher order…

High school students with disabilities who drop out are costly to society. Compared to those who graduate, they are more likely to be unemployed, dependent on public services, and involved in the criminal justice system. Consequently, helping students with disabilities graduate has become a prominent national concern. Students with disabilities…

Provides brief descriptions of programs in Western Europe to furnish fresh perspectives from which to view American education. (Author/IRT)

Relates the future of social studies in 1984 to the social and political implications of education found in Orwell's "1984."

This article is designed to serve as an analytic aid to understanding the problem of setting development. "Setting" was defined by Sarason to encompass any instance in which two or more people come together in a new relationship over a sustained period of time to achieve certain goals. (JA)

Gifted and talented adolescents have special educational and personal needs which call for special adaptations and supplements to the typical school program. A variety of services including counseling, advanced classes, college-level courses, seminars allowing for guided research on a topic of interest, exposure to the arts, opportunities for…

Finds fault with Illich's fundamental notion that schools engender a confusion of schooling and learning. (EH)

By concentrating on minority needs and management problems, American educators have lost sight of their responsibilities to the nation. What is needed is honesty and self-confidence on the part of colleges and universities to assert their variety of qualities. (Editor/PG)

This keynote address before the 46th Annual Mid-Year Education Conference sponsored by the University of Northern Colorado emphasizes that change is the one constant of education in America and notes the career education concept as a promising change. (HMD)

Empty classrooms can still be used for educational purposes. A survey shows what schools around the country are doing. (See also related document, EA 006 233.) (Author)

The role of aid in the educational development of developing nations prescribed by the broader national development goals, the realities of the social and cultural heritage, and the material constraints imposed by the country's resource, is restricted to the modest parameters of the desirable and the possible. (Author/JH)

The Proceedings of a seminar devoted to discussion of Third World education policies and the impact of cooperation and aid from other countries on those policies are presented to promote rejoinder and counterproposals to the approaches taken by the cooperating and aiding countries, attending the seminar. (JH)

The speaker outlines some of the difficulties in education that have prompted educators to search for alternative approaches, offers guidelines for the implementation of alternatives, and outlines the alternatives available in the Teaneck, New Jersey, schools. (IRT)