A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a federally funded series of career education workshops for school-based teams of principals, counselors, and teachers. In this study, the authors hypothesize that both school effectiveness and effective implementation of innovations such as career education within the school have some common…

The first two articles discuss the Nongovernmental Organization Forum on women's issues, held in Nairobi, Kenya; the third reviews "The Invisible Decade--U.K. Women and the U.N. Decade 1976-1985"; and the fourth identifies the oppressed status of Nepalese women. (CT)

A workshop designed to teach participants how to use microcomputers for practice management, psychological testing, word processing, peripheral interface, and data analysis was found to meet the interests and needs of both academic and practicing psychologists. (RM)

Highlights status of compatability between bioeducational software and hardware. Also lists sources of software and 1984 workshops for bioeducators. (JN)

An interdisciplinary health education group program that was introduced into a women's prision offered a series of workshops on various health related topics. Discussion and conclusions from evaluation of the program are presented. (DF)

Evaluated the effectiveness of a series of training workshops for 92 elementary and secondary school teachers. Responses on a questionnaire showed improvements in teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and assertiveness skills, but not in values clarification ability. (JAC)

Reports on a field study conducted to determine whether a manual describing effective classroom management principles and guidelines could help elementary school teachers establish and maintain well-managed classrooms. (RH)

Describes the writing apprehension and difficulty encountered by a teacher participating in a writing institute. Includes a copy of her final essay and some reflections on what the experience and institute taught her. (HTH)

Reveals that the University of Pittsburgh now requires all future English teachers to take an internship in the university's writing workshop while they are taking a methods and theory course in the teaching of composition. Discusses the effects on the program on the teacher candidates. (FL)

Describes a method for effecting change used with large secondary schools. Workshop participants explored the value of experiential, participative approaches to change and considered how what they bring to a situation can be creatively integrated with what is found in the changed situation. (JOW)

The Training Center conducted three nine hour drug education workshops for selected staff of a large industrial concern of the Northwest. The workshop experience and the data generated during the workshop suggest the usefulness of such non-school drug education programs. (Author)

The NCEA's National Conference of Directors of Religious Education met at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, Arizona and pondered the theory and practice of prayer and its implications for education today. (Author/RK)

Examines some of the latest initiatives for improving environmental education. (Editor)

Thirty different high school and community workshops were held in 1975-76 by Montgomery College for the purpose of informing parents about student financial aid programs and application procedures. Knowledgeable financial aids officers, as information disseminators, can perform a valuable community service. (JDS)

The focus of this report is on peer review as it is applied to the evaluation of proposals for federal funding of education research projects. The primary source of evidence used to set forth the report's conclusions and recommendations about this topic is a workshop convened in February 25-26, 2003 at the National Academies' Keck Center in…