Education & Pedagogy

Missouri career education opportunities are preparing young people and adults for the job market and/or further education. These programs combine academics and job-specific skill training to assist in narrowing the skills gap. This fact sheet highlights 2018-19 data on Missouri's career and technical education (CTE) programs. [For the 2017-18 Fact Sheet, see ED590197.]

This Education Trends report examines the different structures and strategies--including the creation of state offices, the consolidation of others, and collaboration and coordination across several state agencies--used in the states to govern early education. State examples and policy considerations are included to provide insight and help address the many challenges policymakers face when coordinating and aligning early childhood education.

This document presents the master plan for higher education in Virginia. Emphasis is placed on the planning process, an overview of higher education in Virginia, goals for higher education, recommendations toward implementing the goals, governance and coordination of higher education in Virginia, plans for the coordination of higher education in Virginia, and postsecondary education in the 1970's. Plans for the coordination of higher education in Virginia review institutional development and issues and planning statements of Virginia's public and private institutions. (MJM)

Excerpts from four documents on national education policy are reprinted in this newsletter. The two papers written in English include the United Kindgom's government white paper, "Education: A Framework for Expansion," and a summary of the report of Sweden's U68 Committee on Higher Education. The other two papers are written in French and are concerned with the Swiss committee report on secondary education of the future and the Netherlands' draft bill on development of higher education. (DT)

This bibliography lists 29 books and 218 articles on independent study. Sources consulted include the Canadian Education Index (CCRE), Education Index (Wilson's), Current Index to Journals in Education (CCM), Cumulative Book Index (Wilson's), Research in Education (ERIC), Education Studies in Canadian Universities (CEA), Directory of Education Studies in Canada (CEA), and Research Studies in Education (Phi Delta Kappa). The period covered is approximately five years. The ED numbers are listed for those documents which are abstracted in Research in Education and available through the ERIC system. (JS)

In the Spring of 1969, the Illinois General Assembly enacted the "Health Services Education Grants Act" providing for allocations to private institutions for increasing enrollments in medical, dental, nursing, and allied health education programs. This report provides a summary of the dollars appropriated to the Board of Higher Education for the implementation of this Act during Fiscal Years 1970, 1971, and 1972, and details the Board of Higher Education's Fiscal 1973 recommendations. (Author)

The International Education Year objective to promote a period of reflection, experimentation and reform in the thought and practice of education is met in this commentary on democratization of secondary and higher education. An analysis of the myths and realities of equal educational opportunity precedes discussion of the kinds of redirection necessary for educational systems today. (Author/SHM)

Textbooks, courses of study, resource units, teaching units, teaching devices, and general reference books are catalogued in this selected bibliography for environmental education. The materials noted are those available from the Curriculum Laboratory, Savitz Learning Resource Center, Glassboro State College, New Jersey, and are useful for both elementary and secondary grade levels. Each entry lists title, author, publisher, year, and subject category: conservation, ecology, environmental education, outdoor education, pollution, science, or social studies. Fifty items are cited. (BL)

This document includes papers and speeches presented at the National Conservation Education Association Conference. The papers are arrayed under the major topics of the conference: centers for environmental education (EE), energy, land use, leisure pursuits, natural history, networking, ongoing EE, special populations, and urban EE. Keynote speeches and opening remarks, committee reports, and a list of participants are included. (RE)

Over 450 citations from the 1970s, many annotated, comprise this bibliography. The following subtopics of multicultural/multilingual education are covered: (1) bilingual education/English as a second language; (2) bibliographies on multicultural education; (3) materials for teachers (teacher education material and curriculum/class material); (4) human relations, values, and cross-cultural communication; (5) periodicals and journals; (6) media; (7) desegregation and race relations; and (8) foundations for policy development. (JB)

Annotations of twelve documents introduce educators to representative literature in the field of drug education in the 1970s. The documents selected include descriptions of established drug education programs, recommended characteristics of drug education programs, alternative drug education techniques, a longitudinal survey of drug use in a Georgia high school, and discussions of drug education program evaluation. The documents included are listed in Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). (PGD)

This paper follows on from the previous bulletin (Redford 2018), which covered the education remit of the Parliament's Education and Skills Committee between August 2017 to January 2018. This bulletin covers the Education remit of the Education and Skills Committee from February to July 2018. [For the previous bulletin (v50 n1 2018), see EJ1196574.]

This article contextualizes Neus Evans' recommendations for moving Education for Sustainability in Teacher Education forward by introducing advances in this work in the context of Canadian faculties of education. By tracking the developments of a growing national network, and its contributions to research, practice and policy in this field, clear steps are being made to move from adaptation of the existing systems towards a wider transformation of education towards sustainability in Canada.

This bibliography provides 337 annotated references covering: science teaching at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, and high school levels; science education as it relates to various science disciplines; science education for special populations; sexual stereotyping in science education; teacher education for science teachers; and how science education affects society. In addition, a brief research review is included. (RH)

After a brief introduction to the historical background of the peace education movement in Australia, this paper surveys major events concerning peace education in Australia in the 1980s. Peace education efforts in Australia have experienced successes as well as setbacks, and that the fate of such efforts often is at least in part, related to national and local political forces. (DB)