Describes the kind of training programs that AT&T and Citicorp offer to their employees. (IRT)

Describes the training programs that IBM offers its staff and its customers. (IRT)

Describes programs offered or sponsored by national trade associations in the finance industry. (IRT)

Education training programs in industry stem from several major needs--to accommodate the turnover and growth in personnel, to accommodate changes in knowledge and skills required by a company and its employees, and to improve the skills and performance of present employees. (Author/IRT)

Although corporate motives for training tend to be short-term, functional, and mission-oriented, more and more corporations and institutions of higher education are cooperating to offer employees classes carrying college credit. (Author/IRT)

The author gives five impressions on the state of evaluation of training programs in industry. He takes the position that evaluation is given short shrift. (IRT)

The training profession is not an easy one for teachers to enter because of the credibility gap that exists between education and business. Resumes must be written for the business of training and must emphasize those skills and experiences that would be applicable to business rather than to teaching. (Author/IRT)

Outlines the Air Force's program of training for its personnel and the attitudes on which it is based. (IRT)

Outlines a scenario in which the university might lose its credentialing and legitimizing role to industry and then becomes corporate education in its fullest and most complete sense. (Author/IRT)

This, the third of a four-part series, focuses on student attitudes and personal experiences as they are organized into four domains--personal, instructional, institutional, and societal. (Author/IRT)

Outlines the history and present activities of an organization of child-centered educators in France. It was founded in 1926 by Celestin Freinet. (IRT)

Relying on federal legislation to ease data burdens will only slow the growth of the problem. Educators can seize the initiative by improving the internal capabilities of their agencies and by promoting more careful deliberation within the external processes that generate the demands. (Author/IRT)

Describes a successful approach a division of teacher education used to compete for research grants. The rewards are funding for research and development projects, plus an equally valuable though less concrete benefit: a reputation for action and excellence. (Author/IRT)

Critiques 12 methods of and approaches to teacher evaluation. Concludes that the goal-setting approach in which the teacher and administrator establish mutually agreed-upon instructional goals and objectives is the best, as other techniques may isolate teachers and administrators and establish adversary rather than cooperative relationships.…

Because of the exceptions to the legislation, the HEW age discrimination regulations will fall far short of imposing age desegregation on the schools. There may, however, be some circumstances in which greater age diversity will be evident in the public schools in the years to come. (Author/IRT)