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Gardner, Stephen E. – 1983
This booklet identifies four critical areas for alcohol and drug abuse prevention strategies: communities, parents and families, schools, and the workplace. Under each area, specific ideas for action and pertinent resource materials are described. The community strategies described include youth organizations, policies and laws, counseling, the…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Community Programs, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
Oregon State Bureau of Labor and Industry, Portland. – 1995
This guide on the employment of minors is intended for 14- through 17-year olds, their parents, and employers. It first lists requirements for employers who hire minors. Then it lists the jobs that 14- and 15-year-old workers can do, both the types of businesses that would hire them and examples of the kinds of jobs that 14- and 15-year-olds may…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Child Labor, Labor Legislation
Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, Chicago. – 1993
This handbook provides renters, homeowners, teachers, parents, and workers with tools for ridding their communities of illegal drugs. The booklet describes relevant anti-drug laws, and provides examples of how they are being used successfully in one state. The case studies cited almost always involve individuals and community groups working…
Descriptors: Crime, Crime Prevention, Drug Addiction, Drug Legislation
Montgomery County Public Schools, 2006
The "2005 Annual Report on Our Call to Action: Pursuit of Excellence" details the school system's significant progress toward meeting the identified milestones within each of the system's four strategic goal areas. The overall trend data continue to provide strong evidence of the effectiveness of our strategies and initiatives detailed…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Work Environment, Educational Change
Cartisano, Judith A. – 1993
Parents and community members who want to improve their schools are often told that things "must" be done a certain way because of rules and regulations. Often union contracts are blamed for why certain changes cannot be made. Union contracts may not be the barrier to change, however; management inaction may be the real culprit. This…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education
Chapman, Anne – 1988
The recent flood of new information on structuring human experience along gender lines and on the female component of human experience has profound implications for education. The new scholarship shows that much of what people once assumed to be innate gender difference is in fact produced by adults' different behavior toward boys and girls, of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Attitudes