The United States influenced the origins, elaboration, and implementation of the politics of knowledge between social science and policy in the South African National Bureau for Educational and Social Research. Divided into six sections, the historical analysis of the Bureau: (1) examined the context within which the Bureau emerged, the origins of…

To help elementary and middle school teachers meet the challenges of today's diverse society, this guide presents a number of teacher education tools. These include a practical model of multicultural education, a set of key multicultural planning questions, and a set of curriculum case studies that illustrate how the planning questions contribute…

Focusing on the school district's written expectations for students, this document examines curriculum improvement in four sections, each accompanied by a list of related references. The first section explores the organizational and substantive planning needed to structure any curriculum improvement project effectively and includes information on…

This document, the second part of a four-part analysis and assessment of Pakistan's system of primary education, presents the report's susbstantive analysis. Seven chapters are included: (1) Introduction; (2) Educational Policy and Planning; (3) The Financing of Primary Education; (4) Organization, Management, and Administration; (5) The Formal…

The fourth part of a four-part analysis and assessment of Pakistan's system of primary education presents annexes to the analysis that was reported in the second part of the overall report. Five annexes are included: (A) Acronyms; (B) Scope of Work; (C) Persons Interviewed; (D) Chapter Annexes; and (E) Bibliography. A number of charts and diagrams…

This report describes a workshop for 24 midlevel managers that provided information on change areas critical to program planning in the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) system. These change areas include technology, labor market, demographic, and educational trends. In addition, techniques for identifying and forecasting…

This paper reviews law-related education and suggests ways to implement this type of education in Alaska's secondary schools. Ten reasons for teaching law-related education are presented including the following: research demonstrates the effectiveness of such education; increases student interest in the law; helps students become effective…

This report from the California State Postsecondary Commission reviews the difficulties associated with adoption of the current 1990-91 budget and uses this review as a basis for its recommended four priorities for the upcoming budget. The four priorities discussed are the following: (1) maintain the Master Plan's commitment to access and quality…

Prior to a UNESCO International Congress on the planning and management of educational development, this study was prepared to assess the 1980-1990 decade and to outline the perspectives for educational planning and management in the Arab States. Seven main sections comprise this report: (1) Introduction; (2) Context of the period 1980 to 1990;…

The Chicago (Illinois) School Reform Act of 1988 (Public Act 85-1418) mandated that each school in the city's public school system prepare a three-year school improvement plan. This report summarizes the most salient features of 539 plans in the form of the following goals: (1) improved achievement in reading, writing, mathematics, sciences, and…

Although important financial sacrifices have been made in favor of education since the United Nations launched its first Development Decade in 1961, it seems increasingly difficult today to mobilize financial resources in proportion to the needs or the demand. The extension of schooling throughout the world is confronted with such constraints that…

In August 1986, at the request of the Board of School Trustees of Nanaimo, British Columbia, a Secondary school Reorganization Task Force was established to develop an implementation plan for Grades 8-12 reorganization of four of the six secondary schools in School District 68. This report outlines how such reorganization would occur and what its…

This report presents a second program review of Mathematics and Statistics in the State University System of Florida (SUS) that was conducted in 1989-90. The report reveals that all nine SUS institutions offer degree programs in Mathematics; five SUS institutions offer 10 degree programs in Statistics. It is noted that improvement has occurred…

In response to the national impetus for improvement in education, New Jersey officials have proposed the creation of the Academy for the Advancement of Teaching and Management, an organization designed to raise the standards of professional skills for teachers and principals. The organization will train teachers and administrators for 2 years in…

Although rural children with mild or moderate handicaps have been integrated into the regular classroom, children with severe or low-incidence handicaps continue to be underserved by rural schools. Traditional service delivery models are inadequate in rural areas where many levels of the traditional service continuum and adequate staff and funding…