Education & Pedagogy

Secretary of Education William Bennett discusses the importance of elementary education and elementary school teachers and what he hopes "First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America" will accomplish. (MT)

Provides a comprehensive listing of print and audio-visual resources for developing a global studies program. Included are elementary and secondary instructional units, activities, maps, computer software, multimedia packages, and curriculum guides. (JDH)

Describes a course in chemical instrumentation for high school chemistry teachers, paid for by Union Carbide. Teachers used spectrophotometer, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, atomic absorption spectrograph, gas chromatograph, liquid chromatograph and infrared spectrophotometer. Also describes other teacher education seminars. (JM)

Results of a content analysis of (1) recent statements of professional competence for learning disability specialists and (2) college textbooks in special education and learning disabilities indicated little emphasis in either the statements or curriculum materials on multicultural issues. (DB)

Discusses the role that resident field centers have in environmental education in Norway. Explains how the centers aim to provide a totally different environment for the students by emphasizing the values of living and learning together. (ML)

Faculty and students of liberal education have much to offer the corporate world, but first must get rid of inherited prejudices about business and management, learn to be more innovative, and use the powers of critical thinking more productively. (MSE)

Minnesota high school juniors and seniors can enroll full- or part-time without cost in all public and some private postsecondary education institutions. The expanded choice increases the options available to students. (MLF)

Summarizes the efforts of teachers at all levels of education to prepare students with the basics of art education. Describes the art foundations program of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and concludes that perceptual drawing is the most basic of all art subjects. (JDH)

Identifies and discusses four strategies for successful interaction between higher education and the business community: communication and interaction; involvement and commitment; learning the vocabulary; and understanding the budget process. (Author/ABB)

This article, comprised of two excerpts from the New York Times, illustrates the reemergence of university/school partnerships by describing a meeting of major university presidents and a project of cooperation between Stanford University and local public schools. (Author/MT)

The development of an intervention program initiated by the Kentucky Department of Education to ensure that minority education majors have access to training in skills needed for standardized tests is described. (MT)

Reviews research, conducted since the early 1970s, on the teaching of physical education. States that past studies have been largely descriptive and correlational, and the future studies must develop a more detailed explanation of the process of teaching physical education. (JDH)

Provides a historical review and assessment of Britain's General Certificate of Education and Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Projects the implications of the GCSE for teachers and students and presents challenging views on several of its principles. (ML)

The National Education Association's response to the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy proposals for school reform gives qualified support to suggestions for changes in teacher training and certification. (MSE)

The underlying philosophy of Everyman's University, Israel's open university, is to maintain educational excellence while providing equal educational opportunity to large segments of the population through free access and a flexible program of distance education. (MSE)