Institutional Cooperation [microform] : The Role of the Federal, State, and Local Education Agencies in Addressing the Educational Problems of the Pacific Region / George T. Frey.
A concerted effort to pool resources and coordinate work by federal, state, and local educational agencies will be necessary to overcome the fragmentation that is occurring due to the current climate of changing demographics, increasing illiteracy, and the social effects of minorities in our schools...
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| Summary: | A concerted effort to pool resources and coordinate work by federal, state, and local educational agencies will be necessary to overcome the fragmentation that is occurring due to the current climate of changing demographics, increasing illiteracy, and the social effects of minorities in our schools. California has shown major changes in the population that is currently enrolled in the public school system, with a new influx of people from Asian countries, areas of South and Central American, and some midwestern states. The implications, if these citizens do not attain a certain level of literacy, will be far-reaching for the entire society. These persons will be locked into dead-end jobs. Citing the current difficulty of obtaining first language instruction, a call is made for increased efforts to fully train teachers who can carry out a program for these minority students. A call is also made for the restructuring of the entire school system, using district and staff support and collaboration. In conjunction with the restructuring, an effort must be made to work with teacher training institutions so that strategic planning can begin to identify what skills will prepare teachers to meet tomorrow's challenges. In addition, cities must begin to work in partnerships with private business/industry persons to review the status of education to make recommendations that begin to solve this problem. Forty-two references are appended. (LMS) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Teacher Training Institute for the Pacific Region (San Diego, CA, July 14, 1988). ERIC Document Number: ED298652. |
| Physical Description: | 37 pages. |
| Reproduction Note: | Microfiche. |
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