A collaborative team of faculty from The University of Akron (UA) in Akron, Ohio, and Kent State University (KSU) in Kent, Ohio, were awarded a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a specialty area in the graduate speech-language pathology (SLP) programs of UA and KSU that would train a total of 32 SLP students (trainees)…

The current dominant account of aid to education focuses on schooling and official development assistance and talks in terms of policy work, donor harmonisation and, increasingly, budgetary support. However, this approach is limited in a number of ways. The return of international policy interest in vocational education provides an opportunity to…

Advanced Education and Technology's mission is to lead the development of a knowledge-driven future through a dynamic and integrated advanced learning and innovation system. Its core businesses are to: (1) provide strategic leadership for Campus Alberta and Alberta Innovates; and (2) engage learners, industry and the community in learning…

Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…

The process of Bologna (European Space for Higher Education) has three fundamental nucleuses that are the European cultural diversity, the promotion of the exchange, and the knowledge among people of the different European countries. Neither the European dimension of the higher education nor the search of a system "easily comprehensible and…

Carved from cedar trees by the Native people of the Northwest Coast, totems are outgrowths of the region's aboriginal art forms. Originally an important part of the pot-latch ceremony--a feast with deep meaning to coastal First Nations--totem poles were once raised to represent a family clan, its kinship system, dignity, accomplishments, prestige,…

The school district in Anne Arundel County, Md., this spring entered into what appears to be a unique contract with the local teachers' union over struggling Annapolis High School: Teachers will work year-round and make a commitment to stay at the school for three years. Designed by Superintendent Kevin Maxwell to fend off a state takeover, the…

Changes in the balance of power over higher education require increased leadership by state coordinating boards and their directors. (Editor)

The highlights of a meeting of the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Committee on UNICEF are contained in this report. The purposes of the meeting were to: (1) identify issues that needed further consideration in the drafts of two major documents to be presented for discussion and adoption at the World Conference on Education for All (March…

The historical development of education in the United States has favored the compartmentalization of studies over a global approach. Apart from a few encouraging developments, international studies is in a state of neglect. The universities have helped to remedy this situation through inservice programs, while the formation of consortia among…

This report presents three seminar papers and associated discussion session reports from the Adelaide seminar which focused on education as it relates to the advancement of international understanding. In the first paper, A. M. Thomas stressed the necessity for continuing cooperation among nations to solve problems of friction and poverty.…

This document provides a conceptual framework and programs structure that encompasses a training program for coordinators of volunteers with special emphasis on tutorial services within the public school and junior college environment. The project design includes program objectives, criteria for solving the problem, procedures, supportive services…

Describes the development and testing of an interdisciplinary unit on mystery. (FL)

Current trends and issues in education, and especially in school counseling, indicate the importance of collaborating for student success. With the proliferation of computer and networking technologies at their fingertips, school counselors can effectively forge greater collaborations among various stakeholders by creating virtual…

The goal of this paper is to highlight developmental pathways as they unfold during the elementary school years and to discuss the implications for the evaluation of school-community-family partnerships. (Author)