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Dumas, Bethany K. – 1993
Many English handbooks and "grammars" fail to offer sound advice to writers about matters of exactness in diction and precision in sentence structure. A gap between linguists and English teachers, the literary bias of most graduate departments of English, and a national obsession with the all-powerful capabilities of common sense, have…
Descriptors: English Departments, Higher Education, Linguistics, Secondary Education
Huttemann, Lutz, Ed. – 1985
Based on the belief that socioeconomic and cultural development in the pan-African region can be best promoted if it is supported by sound information and documentation services, the education and training of information personnel has become one of the major program areas of the Education, Science and Documentation Centre of the German Foundation…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Documentation, Higher Education, Information Needs
Ulrich, Walter – 1985
Two major problem areas exist in current high school forensics. The first is the decline in the number of debate participants in some parts of the country. Contributing to this decline are demands on extracurricular time and money, a lack of strong leadership as coaches leave academia, barriers to participation such as increased difficulty in…
Descriptors: Competition, Debate, High Schools, Higher Education
Kohler, Lewis T., Ed. – 1980
Designed to help school business managers understand management-labor relations, this handbook outlines a managerial approach to negotiations designed to protect the local educational agency's needs. The principles and philosophy of negotiations as well as its legal setting are presented in the introduction and first two chapters. Chapters 3, 4,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Arbitration, Boards of Education
1980
This monograph lists resources and presents suggestions for raising financial support for elementary and secondary school arts programs. It is part of a series focusing on the status, problems, and prospects of art education in the United States. All monographs in the series maintain that school arts programs are basic to individual development…
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Corder, Gregory W. – 1999
Values clarification involves presenting a hypothetical situation to students that requires them to make a moral judgment. That moral judgment must be publicly affirmed by the student, but not criticized by others. Values clarification's philosophical context is existentialist. The values clarification philosophies and methods were consistent with…
Descriptors: Ethics, High Schools, Humanism, Middle Schools