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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Mitchell, Katherine A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
Indicates that a teacher's responses to errors made by students in oral reading are related to that teacher's theoretical orientation as well as to the type of error made. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Patterns, Oral Reading, Reading Research
Wiener, Harvey S.; And Others – 1988
A report of the results of the City University of New York's 1987 Prefreshman Summer Program is presented. The 6-week summer program offers instruction to prefreshmen in one or more of the basic skills of reading, writing, and mathematics. Small-group instruction, peer tutoring, and counseling are available. Statistics indicate the following: for…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, College Bound Students, College Freshmen
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Health Resources Administration (DHHS/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. Div. of Associated Health Professions. – 1976
The directory in two volumes provides data in tabular form on 5,624 active and 252 planned health occupations education programs in junior and senior colleges in the United States as of October 1975. This edition emphasizes historical enrollment and graduation data. Volume 1 presents data by institution name, and volume 2 provides summary data for…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic), Educational History
HILLEARY, LOUIS F.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS REPORT BY A COMMITTEE OF THE FACULTIES OF THE LOS ANGELES JUNIOR COLLEGES OFFERS SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR EDUCATING THE DISADVANTAGED STUDENT. INSTRUCTORS MUST APPRECIATE THE DIFFICULTIES OF REACHING THE NON-ACHIEVER, WITH HIS FRUSTRATION, APATHY, AND REBELLION AGAINST EDUCATION, AND THEY MUST UNDERSTAND THE NECESSITY OF ENCOURAGING HIM TO…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Richter, Winston – 1986
Findings are presented from a study of available documentary evidence related to the finance of public education in the State of Florida. Spanning the past 12 years, and including estimates and projections for 1983-84 and 1984-85, the report focuses on the revenue and expenditures of the Florida Public School System, the Florida Community College…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Trevor, Rena; Lucas, John A. – 1986
As one element of the evaluation of the Women's Program at William Rainey Harper College, surveys were sent to 500 women who had participated in the offerings of the Women's Program in 1983; and to 194 women who had taken part in Project Turning Point between 1979 and 1981. Study findings, based on a 65% response rate, included the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Services, Course Evaluation, Displaced Homemakers
Mellor, Kathleen Lukens; Broadhead, Glenn J – 1982
A Francis Christensen-oriented, "generative rhetoric" 12-step approach to sentence skills was used in two English-as-a-second-language composition courses at Wichita (Kansas) State University in 1980. The classes consisted of approximately 50% Middle Eastern students, 35% Southeast Asian students, and 15% African and South American students. Two…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Higher Education
Armijo, J. Frank; And Others – 1978
Produced as part of the Targeted Outcomes Field Development Project, this handbook provides basic guidelines that can be used by community colleges for organizing and conducting community impact studies. An introductory chapter touches on the broad range of economic, educational, social, and technological impacts which community colleges have upon…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Data Analysis
Street, Mary Julia – 1977
At Virginia State College, which has an open-admissions policy, entering freshmen who display serious weaknesses in writing are asked to attend a writing laboratory for two hours each week, in addition to attending their regular freshman writing classes. In the laboratory, students write a series of papers dealing with a particular subject.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Higher Education, Individual Instruction
Maricopa County Community Coll. District, Phoenix, AZ. – 1981
This master plan is intended for use by the governing board, administration, faculty, and community of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) as a standard against which progress in occupational education development and improvement can be measured. After Sections I and II provide a foreward and introduce members of MCCCD's…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Employment Projections, Long Range Planning
Cowperthwaite, Gordon – 1981
At Sinclair Community College (SCC) in Dayton, Ohio, a series of holistic education courses, called Education for Work/Life Actualization, was designed to offer students new skills for the development of self-esteem, empathy, creativity, intuition, centeredness, clarity of values, communication, nutrition, and preventative self-help health care.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Courses, Creative Development
Kwalick, Barry, Ed.; Slaughter, Virginia, Ed. – 1982
Nine complete papers and 32 abstracts are contained in this special issue drawn from the proceedings of the fifth annual meeting of writing supervisors within the City University of New York (CUNY). The first complete paper surveys basic writing programs over the decade and points to difficulties overcome, accomplishments,and future needs. The…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Acquisition
Ferland, Raymond A.; DiMaria, Joseph P. – 1992
As a solution to the problem of serving large numbers of students with a small staff, the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) has adopted three new technologies to advise and register students and respond to telephone inquiries. The first of the technological innovations is TELUS, a telephone voice response registration system offered as an…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community Colleges, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness
Hoeck, Jeanne; Thor, Linda – 1982
A study was conducted to determine the Los Angeles Community College District's (LACCD's) role in meeting the educational needs of disadvantaged youth, i.e., individuals aged 16 to 21 who are basic skills deficient, financially disadvantaged, or socially or personally deprived. The study was based on a review of the literature on disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Apprenticeships, Career Guidance, College Role
Cole, Lorraine – 1987
In the last decade there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of minorities recruited and retained in graduate professional education programs for human communication sciences and disorders and in the number of minority members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). A number of causes have contributed to the decline,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Asian Americans, Blacks
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