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With the stress on career orientation in the early levels of education, this bibliography will be welcomed by educators as a basic guide to career education materials appropriate for elementary school students.

Advising has evolved as a critical function because of the increasing complexity of curricula, the competitiveness of the job market, and the changing nature of the student population. The literature on academic advising has consequently proliferated during the past decade, and this book provides valuable guidance in that area.

The issues of literacy and illiteracy have made their presence felt in every country of the world. The international research section is subdivided into sections pertaining to cross-cultural, cross-national, world literacy, and world regional research in literacy.

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With changes in the economy and in demography, college admissions officers need to target new populations and familiarize themselves with new developments that impact the enrollment pool.

Bibliographies of American college presidents are scarce and background data are widely scattered in article, monographic, and biographic form. The archivist and researcher will find an integrated compilation of doctoral dissertations on the college president and a guide to the location of presidential manuscripts and papers.

As efforts to promote literacy accelerate in all parts of the world, research on reading has moved in new and innovative directions and taken on an increasingly international dimension.

This bibliography provides enhanced access to the richly diverse and culturally significant writings on the history of higher education in American life. citations in the first part are arranged alphabetically by state and subdivided by institution, and the second part contains topical studies arrayed under 69 headings.

In addition to materials identified and annotated from a literature search of several education databases, the authors wrote to public school districts with student populations of over 5,000 requesting copies of their teacher evaluation materials.

Hladczuk's bibliography on literacy, which is the most comprehensive literacy/illiteracy bibliography available, covers every literacy `issue' currently in existence, including technological and mathematical literacy, aliteracy, and job literacy.

This annotated bibliography is the first to trace the history of the Writing Across the Curriculum Movement (WAC) and to assess the state of scholarship and pedagogy on the subject today.

Since its early American inception in the mid 19th century, the Ph.D. Of interest to administrators, educators, and scholars, the volume covers the history, research, and evolution of the Ph.D. An introductory essay offers an historical overview and sets the degree within the context of contemporary research.

Because young adolescents have unique intellectual, social, emotional, and physical needs, there has been a major push to develop strong middle level programs in American schools.

The freedom of academics to pursue knowledge and truth in their research, writing, and teaching is a fundamental principle of contemporary higher education in the United States.

The act of assigning a grade raises such issues as how teachers read student writing, whether form and content are of equal concern, what the purpose of grading is, and whether grading should take place at all.

Collaborative writing has attracted much attention in the last 25 years, though it eludes clear definition. This feedback can come from a student's peers or teacher in a classroom setting, it can come from experts and editors who assess a scholar's writing, or it can come from colleagues and clients in the world of business.

Entries include the following elements when available: author/editor, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date, and number of pages. Citations from 85 countries are included.

With this first supplement to his world bibliography, which was published in 1981, Weinberg continues his efforts to retrieve and provide access to the many invaluable contributions on the subject of educating the world's poor and minority children that are frequently overlooked in the prevailing emphasis on mainstream educational and institutional concerns. Covering the literature that appeared between 1979 and 1985 in some 20,000 entries, this volume offers a detailed introduction to schooling as it is affected by the social, economic, and political forces around it.

Entries are grouped in chapters according to type of reference work, such as bibliographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and directories. While most of the works were published between 1970 and 1990, the volume includes works from 1861 to 1992.