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Wagner, June G. – Keying In, 2002
The feature story in this issue, "Managing the Collaborative Learning Environment," focuses on the growing emphasis on teamwork in the workplace. It discusses how the concept of empowering employees in the workplace is evolving and the benefits--faster decision making, lower costs and absenteeism, higher productivity and quality, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Education Work Relationship
Grosz, Karen S. – CAPED Journal, 1989
With the increased funding made available by California Assembly Bill 1725, community college faculty members have the opportunity to inform themselves and make changes in policy regarding the disabled. The disabled are often overlooked as a special interest or underrepresented group in affirmative action plans. Individuals involved with the…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Affirmative Action, College Governing Councils, Community Colleges
Eddy, David, Ed.; Garb, Gill, Ed. – World Education, Inc. Reports, 1987
This issue of Reports Magazine focuses on the challenges that women face and their efforts to continue the struggle for a wider recognition in development and all other spheres of life. "Feminist Issues in Development" (Peggy Antrobus) discusses how feminist analyses offer critiques of conventional approaches to development that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Rojewski, Jay W. – TASPP Brief, 1990
Students with special needs living in rural areas face a difficult challenge as they prepare for employment and adult life. Access to vocational education in rural areas may be limited by isolation, problems in teacher recruitment and retention, curriculum and instructional deficiencies, and weak financial support. In addition, program relevance…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, Community Resources, Cooperative Programs
ERIC Review, 1995
The "ERIC Review" announces research results, publications, and new programs relevant to each issue's theme topic. This issue focuses on the changing face of K-12 professional development for both preservice and inservice teachers. The opening article by Dennis Sparks, "A Paradigm Shift in Staff Development," describes a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement
Vaughan, George B. – 1989
Scholarship -- or, rather, the lack of it -- is a major weakness of the American community college. The most immediate problem the community colleges face in this area is that of developing a clear and meaningful definition of scholarship. Community colleges have paid little attention to scholarship for a number of reasons: (1) community colleges…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, College Role, Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship
Merron, Jeff – 1988
Edward R. Murrow is considered by many to be the first serious practitioner of broadcast journalism. In the 1950s he pioneered in developing the television documentary form with the "See It Now" series. A second series, "Person to Person," played a large part in popularizing the televised celebrity interview. Characterizations…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Broadcast Television, Journalism, Journalism History