National Institute of Education (NIE) staff members have developed a convening process characterized by collaborative meetings with experts to focus on specific problems of an educational organization. The process is intended to help combine research knowledge with practical experience in order to make informed decisions quickly. This document is…

The continuing education of professors is becoming an issue for college and university administrators as educational institutions confront a work force that will not significantly change for the next 10 to 15 years. A two-part study was conducted to investigate activity in the area of professional development for mid-career faculty. The first part…

A consortium approach in Delaware's State technical schools offers a common B. S. degree competency-based program to persons seeking a teaching career in either trade and industry or industrial arts. (Author/AJ)

A third-party evaluation was conducted during the second year of operations of the project Statewide Infusion of Career Education into the Preparation of Teachers, Counselors and Administrators. Sponsored by Oregon's Interinstitutional Consortium for Career Education (ICCE, which is composed of all Oregon institutions of higher education which…

Thirty-four Hispanic bibliographic projects were surveyed to determine possible members of a consortium that could establish a Hispanic data base. Sixty-five percent of the projects focus on Hispanics in the United States ("primary" projects), thus filling a need not met by traditional bibliographic institutions. Most have professional…

Short descriptions of organizational structure and goals and descriptions of environmental education interests, activities, and priorities are presented for 32 nongovernmental organizations affiliated with the Alliance for Environmental Education. The organizations included are listed in the table of contents. The groups included represent a…

Ways of implementing educational innovations produced by research into practice in the schools are considered. It is stated that the most effective tool for accomplishing this is inservice teacher education. The characteristics of an exemplary inservice teacher education program are outlined and discussed. The suggestion is made that teacher…

Papers presented at a conference/workshop that focused on the subject of increasing minority representation in the fields of allied health and science are provided. The role of undergraduate education in preparing students for allied health careers and suggestions for curriculum planning and development are given in the first two papers by Mary E.…

METRO II, a regional metropolitan computer consortium, was developed to provide for joint computer services in five school districts with a combined population of 150,000 students. To effect this consortium approach, each of the districts, already with sophisticated EDP, must analyze current systems and project its anticipated needs to fit the…

Project Renewal assessed the needs of persons aged 60 and over in the districts served by Highland Community College, Kishwaukee College, and Rock Valley College (Illinois), with special focus on the role of educational institutions in meeting those needs. Through interinstitutional cooperation by the three community colleges and Northern Illinois…

The purpose of this paper is to define HETFIRE (the title of a report by the Higher Education Task Force on Improvement and Reform in American Education), and to identify and discuss the key elements contained in HETFIRE. The task force was established in 1972 to determine and conceptualize the best thinking of the higher education teacher…

Members of the Gulf Regional Interstate Collegiate Consortium include nine junior colleges and seven universities in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. This annual report presents the highlights of the consortium's activities for 1975-76. Included are the proceedings of four inservice workshops, the minutes of four Executive Council meetings,…

The COPED project linked behavioral scientists and educators in various geographical regions to school systems in the same regions for the purpose of planning and promoting change, understanding the processes by which change occurs, and evaluating types of change efforts. The enterprise evolved into four major strands: (1) the conceptual effort,…

The extent to which computers are presently used for instructional purposes is surveyed. The evaluation of computers and the more recent development of computers for education are traced. The growth of computer-assisted instruction centers and instructional computer languages is described. Computers, terminals, telecommunications, computer…

This paper reviews actions taken by selected states as they move to implement competency-based teacher education and certification systems (CBTE-CBC). Following a brief discussion of the role of the state in developing CBTE-CBC, three major issues are presented: a) the type of consortium procedures used, b) the manner in which competencies are to…