Excellence Through Partnerships: School of Education, East Carolina University. 1997-98 Progress Report.

Overview & Synopsis

This report focuses on partnership activities and projects at the School of Education, East Carolina University (North Carolina). Highlighted is the first year of funding of two initiatives: the BellSouth Reinvention Grant, a restructuring effort; and the university School Teacher Education Partnership. Following an introduction by the school's dean, a brief history of the school is presented. The following sections briefly describe activities and accomplishments of: the East Carolina Clinical Schools Network; the Office of School Services; the Department of Broadcasting, Librarianship, and Educational Technology and its virtual reality and education laboratory; the Department of Business, Vocational, and Technical Education; the Department of Counselor and Adult Education; the Department of Educational Leadership; the Department of Elementary and Middle Grades Education; the Department of Foundations, Research, and Reading; the Department of Science Education; the Department of Special Education; alternative licensure programs; university-school partnerships; the North Carolina Japan Center East, the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program; partnerships with businesses and industries; the PEN-PAL project; Project EXCEL; the Science and Mathematics Education Center, and the Training Challenge North Carolina project. (DB)