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Heard, Frank B. – 1988
The Middle College High School (MCHS) in Tennessee is an alternative school located on the Shelby State Community College (SSCC) campus, designed to provide special counseling, college preparation, and access to SSCC facilities for potential high school dropouts who have the capacity for secondary and postsecondary success. The program, which was…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Dropout Prevention
Download full textDenton, Jon J.; Peters, William H. – 1988
An evaluation is reported of an intensive 15 month non-traditional certification program for secondary teachers in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and earth sciences. The program integrated pedagogical content from empirical, experiential and theoretical perspectives. The rational for developing the progam was that in order to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Earth Science
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1984
Outlined are the following 11 successful programs, projects, and activities functioning in Hawaii's intermediate schools: Alternative Learning Center (Waipahu and Pearl City Highlands); Career Awareness Exploring through Basic Practical Arts; Career Education Guidance (Kailua); Creating a Positive School Climate; Learning through the Arts;…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Bilingual Teachers, Career Awareness, Career Guidance
Weber, Larry J.; McBee, Janice K. – 1982
Findings are presented which provide information about the extent to which fundamental schools (learning in a highly structured setting with instructional emphasis placed on "basic" subjects) at the elementary and junior high school levels in a large school system in Virginia have achieved their objectives. In this report, four schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment
Stephenson, William – 1982
The way that the Open University system in Great Britain operates and the use of the mass media are discussed in detail. A number of problems the adult student is likely to face are identified, along with basic differences between U.S. and British societies that influence the application of an open university approach. Attention is directed to:…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Admission, College Faculty, Comparative Education
Macris, Peter J. – 1988
The National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) offers a program option for institutions that lack the resources to develop a regular second language program but want to offer instruction in a broad range of languages for international businesses. The cost-effective, media-intensive approach consists of a controlled…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Communication, Cost Effectiveness, Higher Education
Broyles, Susan G. – 1988
Two volumes of the 1987-88 Directory of Postsecondary Institutions list all postsecondary institutions in the United States and its outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, Trust Territories' and the Virgin Islands) that were known to exist as of June 1988. There were 12,052 institutions: 2,652 colleges granting at…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Colleges, Community Colleges, Continuing Education
Dixon, Ken – 1987
This guide on implementation of open learning in Great Britain provides information on resourcing, resource deployment, and costing and pricing. It begins by drawing attention to points of importance to those engaged in forming policy on the provision of open learning. These are presented in a series of flowcharts giving quick reference to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student
Fonseca, James W., Ed. – 1985
Six papers on graduate education are presented from the George Mason University (Virginia) annual conference on nontraditional interdisciplinary programs. The papers and authors include: "Management Education: A Non-Traditional Graduate Program for the Non-for-Profit Manager" (Susan Calkin); "'Pracademics': the Role of the Adjunct…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Administrator Education, Continuing Education, Corporate Education
Fonseca, James W., Ed. – 1984
Six papers on adjunct and nontraditional college faculty are presented from the George Mason University (Virginia) annual conference on nontraditional interdisciplinary programs. The papers and authors are as follows: "Educational Orientation and Role Perceptions of Adjunct Faculty" (William McAfee, Lewis Smith); "Quality Teaching…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Administrator Education, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Olson, Karen; Low, John – 1985
In the fifties and early sixties, United States colleges and universities shied away from courses about communist insurgencies because of the repressive influence of McCarthyism. Vietnam was eliminated from classroom investigation, forcing students to take the issues to the streets. In an effort to expose and examine issues that arose from the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Phillips, Kathleen R. – 1985
The paper traces Wisconsin's adaptation of the California Portable Assistance Study Sequence (PASS), a semi-independent correspondence type study program, for junior high and senior high school migrant students. Educational needs and problems of the approximately 500 migratory secondary school students who attend Wisconsin schools are described.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Correspondence Study, Dropout Characteristics, Educational Cooperation
Woodley, Alan – 1981
The decision to create Great Britain's Open University and stages in the preparation of higher education reforms are considered. The current position of the Open University in relation to its original goals is also addressed, and the policy implementation process is examined to determine why the Open University achieved some of its original goals…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, College Curriculum, Educational History
Schensul, Jean J.; And Others – Generator, 1981
This article reviews six programs that have applied anthropological concepts, methods, and research to implementing change in American schools, school districts, and communities. The programs are: (1) the West Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Free School, an experimental alternative education program that emphasizes freedom, individualized instruction,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Educational Anthropology, Educational Change
Cinal, Terry Lynn – 1982
This document reviews the literature on elementary and secondary school dropouts and notes the effects and possible solutions to the dropout problem. Statistical findings about dropouts from the 1960's to the present are presented along with methods of predicting who the dropouts will be. Dropout characteristics, including psychological, social,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Annotated Bibliographies, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
