Because the American elementary school was designed for a society that no longer exists and is generally unresponsive to current societal realities affecting children and their families, the Elementary School Center proposes a new concept of the elementary school as the locus of advocacy for all children. Also proposed is the development of a…

A closeup look is provided of a trend in the field of educational policy in the 1980's: the establishment of university-based centers that have a mission of providing state policymakers with nonpartisan, reliable data on education policy options. The development and characteristics of education policy centers are examined. The first section…

The purpose of this study was to explore the various types of alternative programs offered in American secondary schools, the ways in which they differ from traditional programs, and their success in educating their students, particularly those classified as at risk. The question "Should students have a choice of schools?" is examined in annotated…

This directory contains information gathered by a 1987 survey by the Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast and the Islands of educational resource organizations located within its region, i.e., Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Virgin Islands. Included…

The College of Education was among the first of four colleges established at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) University in 1977. Now the second largest college in terms of student enrollment, the College of Education has always had an important role in the university. Education at the university has developed rapidly, covering both quantitative and…

This book presents a survey of the socioeconomic context of physical education and: (1) sketches the roots of the field; (2) relates the field to the changing nature of the society in which it exists; and (3) seeks to predict the nature of the profession, its content, and its relation to society in the future. The first two chapters set the scene…

This monograph sets forth the objectives and outlines the provisions of vocational acts (1917-1976) that provided for federally funded vocational education. An overview of the Smith-Hughes Act (1917) also considers changes made in vocational education after the act and amendments to the act. Other sections offer summaries of these acts: the…

For more than a decade, the Academy for Educational Development's Clearinghouse on Development Communication has collected information and chronicled trends in the application of communications technology to development--communication which has as its purpose the deliberate promotion of one or more aspects of national development. This paper…

Stresses the importance of emphasizing vocational and technical education in the lower grades, thereby encouraging careers or hobbies for the students. (Author/PG)

In this article, the author aims to develop a macro level understanding of home education and its research in China. The author analyzes the background, the reasons of revival, special features, and major contents of home education research in the late 70s and early 80s of the 20th century, and explores the development in the succeeding three…

Evaluates and updates Abassi's article on Arab education in Israel. (JM)

This article is concerned with the effects of population growth on the expansion of educational systems and with the influence of education on population trends and on solving the difficulties they are raising. (Author)

Constitutes a guide to software, hardware, and multimedia learning programs. Aims to assist school board members, superintendents, and school principals with the comparative use and usefulness of today's curriculum commodities. (Author/WM)

The purpose of this article was to call attention and to give broader circulation to the discussion that centered around two topics at a meeting of the AACJC and Council of Universities and Colleges, specifically, scholarly research and cooperative action programs. (Author/RK)

Considered and described a sub-university institution, which has a dual approach to vocational education and enjoys considerable autonomy, that falls somewhere between the British regional college of technology and the polytechnic. (Author/RK)