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Altschuld, J. W.; Downhower, S. G. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1980
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act mandates a free and appropriate education for all handicapped children between the ages of 3-18 (to be extended to 3-21 by 1981). The premises upon which the act was formulated as well as its provisions are described. (RL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disabilities, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education
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Crosby, Willis H., Jr. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1980
Examines the implementation and operation of Tri-County Technical College's developmental education program. Specific topics covered include the selection of program personnel, the development of a diagnostic testing component, articulation with other academic departments, and the compilation of progress reports which provide for continuous…
Descriptors: Departments, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Testing
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Romer, Roy – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
Membership in the worldwide community means that students must possess globally competitive skills. In 1993, the author and the Colorado General Assembly worked to pass a comprehensive educational reform strategy that established "model" content standards in mathematics, science, geography, history, reading, and writing. Uniform…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Community
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Lipman, Cynthia; King-Blandford, Marcia – Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply, 1997
To help instructors teach students basic information retrieval skills, librarians at the University of Toledo (OH) developed a bibliographic instruction program, "Teach the Teachers," to be used in the English department's composition classes. This article discusses the development of the program and cooperation between librarians and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Courseware, Educational Innovation, Educational Technology
McGowan, Jessie L. – Information Outlook, 1997
Demonstrates how to develop, implement, and manage an institutional Web site, based on a project administered by the Ottawa General Hospital (OGH) library staff. Emphasizes that planning and organization are the most important skills needed to develop a Web site. A table outlines the OGH Web Site Work Plan. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Foreign Countries, Information Networks, Institutional Advancement
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Hill, Janette R. – Journal of Public Service & Outreach, 1997
Discusses the construction and feasibility of World Wide Web-based learning environments (WBLEs) for distance education, looking at issues in distance education and Web-based technologies, suggesting guidelines for creation of WBLEs, and presenting findings from a current research effort to illustrate the guidelines. Considers both the potential…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Programs, Distance Education, Educational Change
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Dowd, Frances Smardo – Public Libraries, 1997
Describes research on the impact of preschool storytimes on emergent literacy, with the intent of guiding the implementation of such needed research. Discusses the significance of this research to public librarians and describes the methodology, consisting of two phases and a pretest and posttest, and the scoring instruments and data analysis.…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Data Analysis, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods
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Ross, John A.; McKeiver, Sharon; Hogaboam-Gray, Anne – Canadian Journal of Education, 1997
Four grade-9 mathematics teachers in Canada were studied over one year as they implemented destreaming (detracking), which was an externally induced reform in their school system. Implementation of the destreaming had an immediate negative effect on teacher expectations of their own efficacy, but their beliefs rebounded over the year. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
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Sherohman, James – Teaching Sociology, 1997
Recounts a university's attempt to create a more rigorous and rewarding sociology program. Utilizing recommendations from the American Sociological Association the university introduced four levels of sequencing consisting of introductory courses, skills courses, advanced substantive courses, and capstone courses. Concludes that this was a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
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Drabenstott, Karen M.; Weller, Marjorie S. – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Discussion of academic library online catalog users' queries highlights a new approach to displaying retrieved subject headings in subject searching, the exact-display approach, that was designed to encourage users to browse bibliographic information. Demonstrates an implementation of the exact-display approach in an experimental online catalog.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Display Systems, Higher Education
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Flint, Thomas – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1995
An analysis of increases in federal regulation of student financial aid since 1959 looks at changes in both volume and substance of the regulations, and the costs of implementing them. Federal initiatives to form partnerships with institutions in managing student aid are noted, including quality assurance efforts and innovative experiments in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Costs, Delivery Systems, Educational Change
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Rozanski, Maryann – CUPA Journal, 1996
A staff development program at California State University at Long Beach trains faculty and other personnel to participate in earthquake-related search and rescue operations on campus if needed. Vendor-trained staff members prepared a campus training program in emergency operations, fire suppression and protection, casualty assessment, urban…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Planning, Earthquakes
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Kull, Judith A.; And Others – Research in Middle Level Education Quarterly, 1995
Four "fables" from the perspectives of four university collaborators describe the transformation of the original Mathematics and Science Collaborative Project (University of New Hampshire and four Durham, New Hampshire, middle and high schools) as its participants and leaders tried to balance the demands of an externally funded project…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, High Schools, Mathematics Instruction
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Johnson, Margaret J.; Pajares, Frank – American Educational Research Journal, 1996
The implementation of a shared decision making (SDM) project in a large public secondary school was studied for three years. Factors that enhanced the SDM process were the confidence stakeholders had in themselves, resource availability, creation of democratic rules and procedures, early and concrete accomplishments, and the principal's support.…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cooperation, Democracy, Educational Change
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Tomlinson, Kimmie E.; Bender, Renet L. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1997
This article describes a nonviolence model program used in 26 schools. The program identifies positive and negative student leaders who then spend an entire day together working on developing relationships, responsibility, respect, and conflict resolution skills. Specific activities of the "lock-in" day and ongoing activities such as development…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Conflict Resolution, Educational Environment, Group Dynamics
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