As educational indicators continue to signal tough times ahead, higher education institutions are also likely to continue to face further belt tightening. This means operating more efficiently and will also require that institutions look for opportunities to collaborate through inter-institutional partnerships that provide creative ways to address…

The role of education in the art museum has taken on new dimensions as their education departments are faced with a broader and larger public audience than ever before. This paper documents education practice at a contemporary art museum. The paper delineates an interpretive inquiry through which a group of museum educators sought to understand…

Service learning, curriculum-linked community service, has proved remarkably effective in igniting students' desire to learn. In 1997, the Wisconsin Partnership in Service Learning was initiated as a cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional endeavor. Supported by a grant from Learn and Serve America, the partnership created a network throughout…

This paper explores the policy background, the arguments for collaboration between agencies, the barriers which may get in the way of schools and social services working together to safeguard children, and suggestions for how these can be removed. As well as drawing on policy documents and literature around child protection, education and…

This papers explores the relationship between private and public schools. It challenges the assumption that competition between the private and public sectors is desirable and argues for a cooperative model in which public and private schools work together to educate children. Each sector has strengths that can help the other. These strengths…

This paper describes the ways in which a number of individuals, including elementary school children, classroom teachers, and university faculty and staff, collaborated (initially through a literacy discussion group or LDG) over a number of months to develop an interactive hypermedia software program to improve students' literacy. The LDG…

The development of six university consortia and the prospects for their continued growth are examined. Areas of educational program development, development of symposia and short courses, public service, and research are reviewed. (BL)

Legislation introduced for a National Institute of Education is described. (MF)

There are several practices that, once implemented by state governing or coordinating agencies, would provide effective and efficient coordination of any state community college system. These include the organization of a series of councils made up of institutional representatives by function, the development of individual college master plans,…

A widespread recognition of the need for parent education, the similarity of problems confronting the practitioner in whatever country he practices, and the ambiguity surrounding goals and method indicate a need for clarification and for action. The suggestion is made for international communication. (Author)

Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Saskatchewan Federation, Council of Exceptional Children (11th, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, October 24-25, 1968).

Career development may be conceived in a broad way as providing the opportunity for children to learn the academic, personal-social, and occupational knowledge and skills necessary to attain economic, personal, and social fulfillment. (SEW)

Advocates exchanging sets of compositions with other faculty members to help teachers more actively participate in their classroom writing groups and to encourage students to weigh teacher feedback for themselves. (AEA)

Describes a collaborative effort between a drama teacher and an English methods teacher that engaged prospective teachers in improvising endings to short scripts and presenting dramatic readings. (HOD)

Offers suggestions for improving the relationship between teacher training institutes and the schools in which they place student teachers. (FL)