Describes five possible future developments for customized training: creating consortia between colleges and business training centers; establishing instructional design centers with faculty functioning as knowledge choreographers to provide up-to-date services; creating intergenerational service learning programs; implementing total quality…

Evaluates a specialized support service model offered to dislocated workers enrolled as part-time students. Study concentrated on needs met in 14 support areas, with each area categorized as either prematriculation/admissions or ongoing student services. Recommend specialized personnel services during the re-entry student's initial enrollment…

Discusses the rise in circulation in the Douglas Public Library District (Colorado) due to expanding educational options. Highlights include the Charter Schools Act, library skills instruction, home-schoolers' use of the library, materials availability, year-round reading programs, Internet benefits, and staffing increases and changes. (AEF)

Describes a consensus-building meeting, in which stakeholders representing students attending alternative schools, teachers and directors from alternative schools, high school teachers, directors of special education, and university teacher trainers participated. Participants reviewed and reached agreement on important indicators of educational…

Discusses the results of a study of a graduate course that was delivered to adult students at three locations by interactive video conference. The course was supplemented with the computer-mediated communication of two Internet discussion groups that provided a framework for collaborative learning in which personal experiences enriched knowledge…

Students who participated in the Bronte Creek Project, an integrated outdoor education program in Ontario that involves 11th-grade students in outdoor experiences and leadership opportunities, found the program to be authentic, felt empowered as a result of the program, became more responsible, and reported improved personal relations. (LP)

Reports on a study of the characteristics, learning objectives, ratings of the helpfulness of various learning methods, self-evaluation in such areas as intellectual curiosity, academic ability, motivation, and reading/writing/speaking ability of adult women attending either a weekend college credit program (n=75) or a noncredit community service…

Describes a pilot program in which inservice teachers became on-site teacher educators, assuming full responsibility for supervising student teachers during two summers rather than one semester. Questionnaires indicated participants considered the summer program effective and the on-site teacher educators competent as supervisors. They recommended…

Evaluated consultation program that provided direct academic intervention in regular classroom for children at risk for failure. Data indicated that teachers had increased requests for consultation to meet student needs; that, in comparison to other schools, participating school had qualified fewer children for special education services; and that…

Discusses the advantages and consequences of accrediting online distance education programs. Lists 12 key issues to consider for online accreditation. (JDI)

Wolakota Waldorf School on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, finds that the Waldorf system works well with Lakota values and culture. Describes a typical day for the kindergarten-only school; its relationship to the local K-12 school; its emphasis on social skills, imagination, play, the Lakota way, and family involvement; and its…

Asserts that the manner in which congregations understand their nature as groups is critical to how they make meaning and take action in relation to their faith. Presents sociological categories that can help congregations clarify their understanding of each other as group members. Outlines supporting efforts for religious educators. (MJP)

Examines how a Canon (body of ideas, doctrines, and practices) becomes embodied in religious communities, how that experience forms the faithful in the tradition, and how that experience modifies the Canon of that tradition. Explores this phenomenon within the Jewish, Catholic, and Lutheran communities. (MJP)

Describes the adaptation of a traditional graduate-education course to an online format. Compares this course with an undergraduate model. Discusses course requirements of the graduate online course, creation of the online community, student attitudes, and problems. Offers advice for course planning and development, course orientation, and…

The Free School is an independent, alternative elementary school in inner-city Albany (New York) based on open democratic education dedicated to the authentic lives of children. Emotional freedom is balanced by meetings in which everyone participates in solving discipline problems. The highly flexible and individualized curriculum uses the…