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GILL, HARJEET SINGH; GLEASON, HENRY A., JR. – 1963
DESIGNED TO COMPRISE A SHORT COURSE IN STANDARD PANJABI FOR AMERICANS TRAVELING TO INDIA OR PAKISTAN, THIS COURSE PREPARES THE STUDENT "FOR SOME EFFECTIVE, IF LIMITED, USE OF THE LANGUAGE VERY SOON AFTER HIS ARRIVAL." IT IS ASSUMED THAT THE CLASSROOM INSTRUCTOR WILL BE A NATIVE SPEAKER OF THE LANGUAGE AND THAT HIS TIME WILL BE LARGELY…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Panjabi
Kaynor, Elizabeth H. – 1972
The 1972 annual report of the Greater Miami Council for the Continuing Education of Women (CCEW) is presented. The CCEW, in operation for two years and now a part of Miami-Dade Junior College, offers programs encouraging women to continue their education and serves as an information and referral center to educational resources in academic, career…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Annual Reports, Contemporary Literature
Arrowood, Janet C. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2004
Practical examples from everyday life, spanning personal financial matters to traveling and even cooking conversions are the lessons offered in this useful guide. The vast majority of older students and adults who come to America come from countries that use the metric system. Learning a new system for measuring, telling time, and so forth is…
Descriptors: Symbols (Mathematics), Statistics, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Tolan, Patrick H. – 2000
This brief presents an overview of a comprehensive school safety plan that combines calm and sound attention to the violence that currently pervades children's lives. With regard to the absolute probability of encountering violence or being victimized by crime, schools are the social setting in which students are most protected and least likely to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Identification, Inner City
Lee, Rebecca – Educational Perspectives, 2002
From its beginnings 25 years ago, the University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu (UH-West O'ahu) has strived to provide its students, mostly working adults with an average age of 32 years, with easy access to classes and advising by maintaining flexible class schedules and office hours. When UH-West O'ahu initiated a distance education program in 1981, the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses, Workshops
Tate, Billy; Fawcett, Dick – 1985
Debate as an elitist activity can be defined in two ways: it may mean that entry to a tournament is restricted to only a few participants from any one school, or it may mean that although a wide range of students may participate in debate, only the best debaters are allowed to compete in prestigious national tournaments. The restriction on the…
Descriptors: Competition, Debate, Educational Philosophy, Elitism
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Sanspree, Mary Jean; Kelley, Pat – 1991
This report describes different methods used by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Texas Tech University to provide training to rural teachers in serving students with visual impairments. Distance education is well-suited to the problem of rural personnel preparation. UAB uses videotaped lessons in conjunction with on-campus…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Outreach Programs
Sperazi, Laura; Astrein, Bruce – 1988
Site visits to 17 workplace education projects funded in the second year of the Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative are reported for year 1 and year 2 projects. The year one projects are as follows: EASCO Handtool Company (Springfield), T.J. Maxx Distribution Center (Worcester), laundry workers (Boston/Lynn), AT&T (Lawrence), and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Business
Russell, Steven C.; And Others – 1994
Project CREST (Collaboration for Rural Education Special Teachers) is an Ohio teacher training program that addresses the teaching requirements of rural schools, permits student teaching experiences in rural school settings, and assists rural schools in developing staff development programs. The primary components of Project CREST are: (1) a…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Tokuyama, M. Yukie, Ed.; Walden, Shauna, Ed. – International Update, 1991
"International Update" is a newsletter providing information on two-year college international education activities and on funding opportunities and governmental/legislative trends that will affect community and junior colleges' ability to expand their efforts in such areas as services for foreign students, bilingual education, and study…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Co., Indianapolis, IN. – 1982
Designed for high school economics students as a public service project of the American Fletcher National Bank, the booklet examines the American free enterprise system as it relates to the traditional lemonade stand and its ability to make a profit. The parallel is made by considering some basic principles: (1) the constant need for capital to…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Competition, Consumer Economics, Cost Effectiveness
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
Students in the City-As-School (CAS) program, an alternative high school in New York City, spend 95 percent of their school time at field-based learning sites, such as business, civic, and cultural organizations. A majority of the participants are dropouts, or were high risk students before entering the program. In 1985, CAS was awarded a grant to…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Field Experience Programs, High Schools, Information Dissemination
Dever, Richard B. – 1985
The purpose of Project COMPETE is to use previous research and exemplary practices to develop and validate a model and training sequence to assist retarded youth to make the transition from school to employment in the most competitive environment possible. The taxonomy described in this project working paper focuses on instructional objectives in…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classification, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities
Williams, Karen A. – 1978
A family-oriented geography field course about the southwestern United States was conducted in 1978 by a community college in Michigan (Delta College). Course activities took place in Colorado. The major purpose of the field experience was to offer learning experiences to family groups rather than to individual students. For purposes of the field…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cross Age Teaching, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation
NASH, EDMUND – 1967
IT WAS ESTIMATED BY THE SOVIET PRESS THAT, AS A RESULT OF A MARCH 1967 DECREE, ABOUT 82 PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY'S 80 MILLION WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS WOULD MOVE FROM THE TRADITIONAL 6 TO THE 5-DAY WORKWEEK BY NOVEMBER OF THE SAME YEAR. UNDER CERTAIN PRODUCTION AND WORKING CONDITIONS, THE PREVIOUS PATTERN OF A 7-HOUR WEEKDAY AND A 6-HOUR SATURDAY WAS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Legislation, Labor Standards, Overtime