Suggests that higher education institutions should provide faculty development opportunities for service-learning that develop a common understanding on campus concerning the nature of service-learning, establish and maintain academic integrity of service-learning; increase faculty confidence in implementing a new pedagogy, and increase the…

Organizations, programs, and other resources for data sharing in higher education are listed and described, with addresses provided. They include existing data-exchange programs and consortia, survey programs and databases, and a list of papers presented at the 35th Forum of the Association for Institutional Research. (MSE)

Indicates that, after considerable interest in the 1960s and 1970s, religious education and catechetical programs at Catholic colleges are currently being discontinued or downsized. Argues that there is a great need for religious educators trained in catechism. Describes three cooperative programs between colleges and churches to fill that need.…

Reviews challenges to evaluation that are presented by integrated school-based services. Describes field-based evaluation approaches designed to yield valid and useful information about such programs. Calls for multistage evaluation approaches which includes qualitative and quantitative and process and outcome evaluations. Places emphasis on…

Describes the current teacher credentialing situation in California, the community college Teacher and Reading Development Partnership (TRDP) program, and six California community college programs dedicated to the elimination of an acute teacher shortage. Reports that, by targeting the state's community colleges as the future educational outlets…

Discusses several characteristics of the English program as taught at Sup. de Co. Clermont in France and describes the components of its curriculum, including required courses, electives, internships, and workshops and projects. The school's English courses and instructional techniques, course materials and organization, student motivation,…

The campus library is no longer a self-sufficient repository of publications and information. Only well-organized library networks will be able to manage the expanding amounts of information that modern technological systems are already generating. However, collaborative collection development has been slow because it challenges the traditional…

Northern Arizona University responded to the Spring Hill Statement, which urges higher education's involvement in the school reform movement, by establishing the Center for Excellence in Education to involve personnel from school districts, the university, businesses, and state agencies in cohesive, cooperative effort to improve teacher education.…

Discusses ways in which community colleges have used collaboration and partnerships to enlarge resource bases, examining a range of approaches for addressing collaborative facility development. Reviews examples of community college facilities acquisition, construction, leasing, and shared-usage. Identifies issues and challenges involved with such…

Describes how the Cramlington Organisation for Nature and the Environment (England) involves businesses, wildlife agencies, schools, local authorities, and the community in a partnership to ensure the protection and improvement of large areas of the urban natural environment for the benefit of the locality, schoolchildren, and the natural world…

This study examined the congruence of child protection agencies' legal positions, court clinic recommendations, and judicial dispositions in 59 contested child maltreatment cases. Placement recommendations/decisions were highly correlated; where there was disagreement between successive evaluations, it was in the direction of enhancing family…

Both a classification of the relatively new standards-setting consortia and a theoretical basis for their emergence are developed. It is noted that the theory is based on the confluence of political theory and the theory of markets, and the implications of these consortia for the standards-setting process are considered from theoretical and…

A group of 17 independent colleges and universities in Virginia combine their long distance telephone traffic and network services for an expected savings of $4.65 million over 3 years. The 12-institution consortium that negotiated the plan prioritized service and system criteria and solicited bids from long distance carriers. (MSE)

Several short articles outline services of information clearinghouses in special education, how to access them, collaborative activities among clearinghouses, types of information requests received by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education and by the National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education, documents about…

Describes the change and development of the National Children's Book Week during the past 75 years, including the original initiatives; impact of socioeconomic crises and political turbulence; outreach to young adult audiences; and the goal of the annual event. Five illustrations of Book Week posters are included. (one reference) (KRN)