An edition of the bulletin on accredited institutions of higher education has been published at approximately four-year intervals since the first issue in 1917, the last being published in 1934. It is used by university and college officers in evaluating transfer credits, by State departments of education in checking teachers' credentials, by high…

All superintendents of schools in cities of 5,000 population and over were recently invited by the United States Commissioner of Education to describe plans or methods they had worked out in their respective schools during the past few years. In response to this invitation, several hundred letters were received. Some gave complete accounts of one…

The Seventy-first Congress authorized a survey of the education of teachers on a Nation-wide scope. The board of consultants and the associate director were appointed in July 1930. The Survey was organized and its scope determined by October of that year. The next 2 years were spent in gathering data and the time since then in preparing, editing,…

This study includes consideration of periodicals for the promotion of public school education, those which deal with the history or scientific study of education, or the technique of schoolroom work, improvement of teachers and general school news. The principal source of information, fully indicated in the bibliography, has been the periodicals…

This bulletin contains a representative selection of books and articles for the month of October, 1914. Following the Introductory Notes, the publications are organized into the following topic areas: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Educational history and biography; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Pedagogics and didactics; (5)…

The biennial survey presents statistics and discussion for 1947-48 on broad-range education, state school systems, city school systems, higher education, special schools and classes for exceptional children, libraries in institutions of higher education, nonpublic secondary schools, and public school libraries. Topics include administrative units,…

Volume 2 covers Puerto Rican education; Alaskan education; the 12th annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska (ED613561); city school statistics; information and statistics on universities, colleges, technological schools, professional schools, agricultural and mechanical colleges, normal schools, secondary schools, manual…

This paper begins with three very "public" examples of how education providers across Australia are attempting to assimilate new teaching and learning technologies into existing teaching and learning structures. The transition, as predicted, is not altogether smooth. The dual concepts of the online classrooms as a "self-actualising…

This paper reports on the results of an action research project at Coventry University that consisted of the evaluation of a curriculum innovation supported by the use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) WebCT, i.e. a new module (course): "Academic and Professional Skills for Language Learning". The project was carried out…

As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…

This book contains 21 papers devoted to understanding and facilitating adult learning. After "Foreword to the Second Edition" (Malcolm S. Knowles) and other introductory materials, the papers are: "Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults" (Michael W. Galbraith); "Understanding Adult Learners" (Huey B. Long); "Identifying Your Philosophical…

The seven issues of this New Zealand journal contain brief articles on a variety of immigrant and multicultural education issues. Topics include: the role of English language instruction in creating opportunities; Pacific Islander university students; lecture listening and note-taking techniques; the language of geography examinations; audiotape…

This proceedings includes the following papers: "The 'Thoughtful' Health Practitioner: A Study of a Theoretical Basis for Critical Inquiry Regarding Liberal Arts in Health Professions Curricula" (Mary Jo Belenski); "Secondary School Vocational Program Performance Standards and Measures: Virginia's System of Locally Directed…

Information about 14 southern states and the progress of their colleges and universities is presented and compared with national standards. The 1981 and 1982 profiles for Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states pertain to population and economies, enrollment and institutions, degrees, institutional finances, student finances, and faculty.…

This KIDS COUNT report examines statewide trends in the well-being of Tennessee's children. The statistical portrait is based on 34 indicators of children's well-being in 5 broad areas: (1) infant, child, and teen health, including enrollment in the TennCare (replacement for Tennessee's Medicaid Program) insurance program, prenatal, low…