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Ekhaml, Leticia – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1996
Presents tips for creating a successful schoolwide newsletter by using desktop publishing software applications. Provides examples of information to include in a library media center newsletter. Discusses readers' needs, layout and format, graphics, news leads and headlines, and visual images, as well as various newswriting and editing techniques.…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Desktop Publishing, Editing, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkAmos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) FY 2007 Funding Bill Signed Into Law: U.S. Department of Education to Receive Increase; (2) "The High Cost of…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Outcomes of Education, Public Education, Educational Finance
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) More Good, Less Bad, and Still Need for Improvement: Latest International Test Reveals U.S. Progress in Math and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Guidance, Vocational Education, Public Education
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Cities in Crisis": New Report and National Campaign Focus on the High School Dropout Crisis in the United…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Merit Pay, High Schools, Dropouts
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "A Tipping Point in Education": Report Finds Educational Attainment of Younger Generations Has Not Increased; (2) Building a…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Attainment, Parent Child Relationship, Public Education
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) House Committee Holds Hearing on NCLB Reauthorization: Alliance President Offers Testimony on NCLB and High Schools;…
Descriptors: High Schools, Low Income Groups, Public Education, Newsletters
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Congress Comes to Agreement on Budget Resolution: Budget Blueprint Outlines Large Funding Increase for Education…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Graduates, Public Education, Secondary School Curriculum
Download full textMastrangelo, Lisa – 1998
While recent arguments often propose that students should be engaged as writers in service to the larger community, the question remains how to engage students as intellectuals, writers, and creators of knowledge in an intellectual setting that mostly asks them to be passive learners. In Project Renaissance, leaving behind the familiar boundaries…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Walker, Thomas – 1993
This practicum report describes a program intended to increase parent participation by improved information delivery at an elementary school. Background study of the school and community indicated approximately a 25% turnover rate of new families and students. Attendance at parent education workshops and school orientation tours before program…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Environment, Newsletters, One Parent Family
Theilheimer, Ish, Ed. – Transition, 1994
This issue of the Canadian journal "Transition" includes a feature story entitled "Unpaid Work--(How) Can You Measure It? Should You Even Try?" which explores issues surrounding unpaid work done in and around the home in Canada, largely by women. It reviews government and independent statistics on the subject, examines the…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Comparable Worth, Economic Factors, Family Characteristics
PLUS (Project Literacy U.S.). – 1990
This newsletter describes mentoring programs that have been successful in improving the academic achievement of at-risk African American youth. "Mentors Play Role in League's Education Push" (J. E. Jacob) describes the key role of mentors in the Urban League's Education Initiative. "Mentoring: Effective for Youth" (L. Sullivan)…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
The Universe in the Classroom, 1990
This document consists of the three issues of this newsletter published in 1990. Designed to assist teachers at the secondary and college level in designing and presenting instruction on the topic of astronomy, typical articles in this newsletter include: (1) "Introductory Astronomy Glossary," which presents the definitions of 42 different terms;…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Bibliographies, College Science, Current Events
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1979
One section of a spring 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey on communication in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions examined how members exchange information with external groups including the university administration, faculty, users, support groups, other libraries, and the profession in general. According…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Committees, Higher Education, Library Administration
Nachman, Leah B. – 1988
A kindergarten teacher implemented a practicum designed to increase parent involvement in their children's kindergarten and give parents information about the kindergarten program. Specific goals of the intervention were to inform parents about kindergarten routine, kindergarten requirements and concepts of child development, and to help parents…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Family School Relationship, Intervention, Kindergarten
Gotts, Edward E. – 1983
Because a review of the literature showed little systematic knowledge about effective school-home communication at the secondary level, a survey of parents of secondary-level students was undertaken in a large West Virginia school system that had begun to achieve apparently effective school-home rapport. A stratified, random sample of parents was…
Descriptors: Communications, Discipline Problems, Family School Relationship, Newsletters
