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Word's Worth: A Quarterly Newsletter of the Lifelong Learning Network, 1998
This issue of a quarterly newsletter focuses on the theme of critical thinking skills. "Critical Thinking Skills: An Interview with Dr. Richard Paul" (Barbara Christopher) is the text of an interview in which the director of research at Sonoma State University's Center for Critical Thinking examines the meaning of critical thinking and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
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Morgan, Robert L.; Hunt, E. Stephen – 1999
This third revision of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) updates and modifies education program classifications, descriptions, and titles at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult education levels. This edition has also been adopted by Canada as its standard for major field of study classification. The volume includes the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations, Cataloging
Maine State Dept. of Education, Augusta. Div. of Special Services. – 1999
This document contains regulations governing the provision of equal educational opportunities and free, appropriate public education in the least restrictive educational alternative to all Maine student residents with disabilities between the ages of 5 and 20. Twenty sections contain provisions relating to: (1) the policy and purpose of special…
Descriptors: Classification, Compliance (Legal), Definitions, Disabilities
Moore, Julie; Knuth, Randy; Borse, Jennifer; Mitchell, Marlon – 1999
Two recent trends in education--increased technology and accountability--are driving efforts to define technology competencies and standards for teachers. The first lists of competencies from these efforts are just now being completed. While some of these competencies are linked to teacher certification and re-certification, others are developed…
Descriptors: Accountability, Benchmarking, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Benjamin, Amy – Eye on Education, 2005
Do you spend entirely too much time correcting your students' papers? Do your students' essays and term papers take side trips to nowhere? Is their writing riddled with mechanical errors? Do their lab reports and essays lack specificity and clarity? Writing in the Content Areas, Second Edition is for middle and high school content area teachers…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Essays, Teachers, Word Processing
Egbert, James C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
During the past 25 years a very significant change has taken place in the attitude of those in control of educational institutions toward the so-called summer season--specifically the months of July and August--as deserving a place in the academic year or calendar. Formerly, the extreme heat so common in many parts of the country was regarded as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Summer Schools, School Schedules, College Administration
Van Sickle, James H.; Witmer, Lightner; Ayres, Leonard P. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
There are many children in attendance in the public schools of the United States who, for one reason or another, cannot work most satisfactorily to themselves or others when classified with the great majority of the children. School authorities have seen for many years that the presence of such children in the regular classes is detrimental to the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Socialization
Reason, Paul L., Comp.; Tankard, George G., Jr., Comp. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This handbook is a guide to property accounting for local and State school systems. It classifies and defines the specific items of information about land, buildings, and equipment that need to be comparable among local school systems and among States, and presents additional terminology essential to their effective use. As such, it is concerned…
Descriptors: Educational History, Guides, School Accounting, Educational Finance
Rosen, Seymour M. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
The demand for basic information on Soviet higher education continues to grow. Previous bulletins on Soviet education published by the Office of Education have either been overall surveys ("Education in the U.S.S.R.," Bulletin 1957, No. 14; "Soviet Commitment to Education," Bulletin 1959, No. 16) or studies of general…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Required Courses, Educational Change, Graduate Study
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Odlin, Terence; Jarvis, Scott – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2004
With a Finnish-speaking majority and a Swedish-speaking minority, Finland offers a striking contrast in the kinds of cross-linguistic influence that can occur in the acquisition of English in a multilingual setting. While much previous research has looked at the differences between Finnish and Swedish influences, our study compares Swedish…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1988
Ten articles are presented in this volume on contrastive linguistics. The articles and authors are as follows: "Contrastive Grammar: Theory and Practice" (F. Aarts and H. Wekker); "On the Semantic and Morphological Status of Reversative Verbs in English and German" (W.-P. Funk); "The Problem of Directionality in…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Annotated Bibliographies, Arabic, Arabs
Mir-Djalali, Elahe – 1992
Designed to be used as complementary instructional material for American students as well as second-generation Iranians in America, this work presents a collection of material for teaching Persian language and culture. Research and analysis of some relevant linguistic issues, interactive methodology of language teaching and acquisition, and models…
Descriptors: Classification, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1987
Summarized are two reports of a federally funded project on the use of artificial intelligence in special education. The first report, "Artificial Intelligence Applications in Special Education: How Feasible?," by Alan Hofmeister and Joseph Ferrara, provides information on the development and evaluation of a series of prototype systems…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Behavior Problems, Classification, Computer Assisted Instruction
Crawford, Ronald – 1984
This guide consists of materials for use in developing a vocational agriculture curriculum. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: reviewing program objectives for vocational agriculture; reviewing program coding and taxonomy areas; reviewing community needs with school and advisory committees and recommending…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Budgeting, Classification
Gottfredson, Linda S. – 1977
Research was conducted to re-emphasize the importance of functional differences among jobs by showing how they help to better explain the income and status differences that are the main concern of recent stratification research. Status attainment, social class, and vocational psychological approaches to occupational and social differences were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Groups, Classification
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