This annual report of the Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association (GMDCA) details the accomplishments of the organization for 2000-2001. The report begins with a letter from the executive director focusing on the need to change our thinking about the care and education of young children, then describes components of quality child care and how the…

The Youth Development Project was established in 1998 as a vehicle for taking stock of and charting the issues involved in healthy youth development. This volume summarizes the project's work through papers prepared for discussions in May and October 1998 and edited for this collection. The essays in this volume are organized by three theme…

Comments on three of the topics of the Dartmouth Conference on the Teaching of English: A definition of English as a classroom subject, the place of literature in the curriculum, and the training of English teachers. (TO)

This is a short description of the Wingspread Conference on Minority Groups in the College Personnel Profession held by NASPA on July 20-22, 1971. Set up by Dr. Kenneth Vanderbush, the two day conference attracted 29 students (widely varied in college major and representing diversified institutions across the United States) and ten staff members.…

Presented the results of a two day task force on teacher education. (RK)

A status report on the evolving conceptions of instructional technology and current applications in Brazil. A complementary purpose is to summarize those conditions which vitally influence the general characteristics of the Brazilian educational system and the nature of instructional technology in this major developing country of the world.…

Contains annual meeting program outlines and annual reports concerning education, research, health care, faculty, students, institutional development and communications.

Summary of the fifth annual meeting of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in St. Paul, Minnesota, April 26-28, 1973. (RL)

A summary of 18 speeches and sessions from the Government Affairs Seminar is given. Topics featured were emission standards for mobile sources, implementation strategies for stationary sources, non-degradation of air quality standards, and technology assessment and the National Environmental Policy Act. (BL)

Report on a special conference entitled Minority Admissions and Support Services at Selective Colleges and Universities.'' (PG)

Author gives a complete guide for marking student reports that frustrate the grader by a lack of obvious mistakes. (GB)

Discusses a report of the National Petroleum Council on the availability of coal and the increasingly important role that coal will play in meeting the future energy needs of the United States. (JR)