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Rowland, Paul – 1985
The New Mexico Solar Energy Institute (NMSEI) education program has attempted to influence teachers to increase the quantity and quality of teaching about renewable energy sources and their uses. Since 1982, the program has used the following methods for influencing energy education: a newsletter for educators; conference and classroom…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
Albuquerque Public Schools, NM. – 1986
This report summarizes responses to a questionnaire sent to both school and business participants in the Join-A-School Program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program, which pairs schools and businesses within a community, was originated in 1985; this survey is the first evaluation of the program. Responses were received from 47% of the business…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Needs, Participant Satisfaction
Stallworth, John T. – 1982
A questionnaire survey of elementary teachers and principals investigated their attitudes toward parent involvement in schools and sought to find whether barriers to parent involvemnt were related to school policies and procedures, teacher or principal attitudes, lack of resources, or lack of knowledge or skills. Of the random sample of 2,000…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Decision Making, Educational Resources, Elementary Education
Gim, Wever; Litwin, Tybel – 1980
Five case studies describe experiences in the resettlement of Indochinese refugees in Albuquerque, New Mexico; San Diego, California; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Des Moines, Iowa. The case studies focus on local government and community attitudes toward the refugees; patterns of resettlement; and the nature and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Role, Educational Needs
Stout, Steven Owen – 1977
The paper examines interpretive aspects of English non-uniformity among fifth and sixth grade Native Americans at Laguna Elementary School, Laguna, New Mexico. Speaker assessments of instances of uninflected "be" are ordered to form an implicational scale. The variability in the students' assessment pattern is compared to previous inter-ethnic…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Dialect Studies
Lazdowski, Walter P. – 1976
In this experiment, New Mexico State University's College of Continuing Education sponsored a college-discovery program designed to tap a pool of prospective college students hitherto ignored: veterans, housewives, and those others who simply were afraid to try for a college education because of uncertainty concerning their capabilities.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Planning, College Preparation, College Programs
Yeager, John L.; Linhart, Cynthia A. – 1978
As a response to the concerns associated with the allocation of state resources to institutions of higher education, several states have developed budget formulas to derive estimates of the institutional financial requirements. Formulas, however, were developed during a period of rapid growth, and might be unresponsive to institutional needs…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Planning, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance
FORBES, JACK D. – 1967
APPROXIMATELY FIVE MILLION PERSONS OF MEXICAN ANCESTRY RESIDE IN THE STATES OF CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, TEXAS, AND COLORADO. A LARGE NUMBER HAVE ALSO MADE HOMES IN THE GREATER CHICAGO AREA AND IN OTHER INDUSTRIAL CENTERS. MEXICAN AMERICANS HAVE PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN THE INDUSTRIAL, AGRICULTURAL, ARTISTIC, INTELLECTUAL, AND POLITICAL LIFE…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Administrators, Agriculture, Anglo Americans
Busch, Judith W.; Blackwell, Peggy J. – 1977
This paper discusses a study conducted with 100 parents of high school-age students in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to determine the nature and range of their goals for secondary education. Each parent participated in an open-ended, tape-recorded interview. Results of these interviews, while qualitative, revealed basic sex-role expectations of parents…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Expectation, Parent Aspiration
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1977
This report presents the results of an external evaluation of a model bilingual program for nursery school through third grade students in the municipal schools of Clovis and Portales, New Mexico. The project is divided into three programs--nursery school, kindergarten, and grades 1-3--designed to reach children with limited English-speaking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
Murray, Betty – 1975
A 2-year study of minority group barriers to allied health careers in the Southwest was conducted to identify those barriers experienced by minority groups in entering and completing a postsecondary educational program in allied health. Data were obtained through: (1) 7 one-day conferences convening students, dropouts, nonstudents, staff, faculty,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Allied Health Occupations Education, American Indians, Blacks
Lerch, Robert Donald – 1971
Students enrolled in the introductory physics laboratory at New Mexico State University participated in this study. A stated set of objectives, developed by Dr. John M. Fowler of the Commission on College Physics, was used in the laboratory. This study attempted to measure student achievement based on the use of these objectives as opposed to the…
Descriptors: College Science, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
Texas Univ., Austin. Div. of Extension. – 1973
The project provides for a five-State (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico) consortium designed to upgrade competencies of all levels of Adult Basic Education (ABE) personnel. The major points of focus are: establishing bases for higher education; training State Department, university, and local ABE personnel by means of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Consortia, Program Descriptions, Regional Programs
East, Maurice A. – 1970
To introduce the inservice program the author argues in favor of involving discipline-oriented professors and professional associations in the teaching of their discipline in the secondary schools, but also discusses the problems to be avoided in such involvement. The inservice program described is being carried out by the Center for Teaching…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), International Education
Krause, Janet – 1970
This document contains 66 one-paragraph summaries of reports on innovative programs in teacher education submitted to the Council on Teacher Education of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development by its state liaison members. Each description includes an address from which further information may be obtained. Programs are listed…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Teacher Education
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