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Brown, Susan, Ed. – 1984
Designed to assist local board of education members, administrators, teachers, and parents, this guide provides information on planning a comprehensive computer education program and on selecting hardware and software. Planning topics discussed include purposes/types of computer use, staff training, location, distribution of computers across…
Descriptors: Budgets, Check Lists, Computer Software, Educational Planning
Parkay, Forrest W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Describes the Southwest Texas Program for Improving Basic Skills Instruction in the Secondary Schools. It promotes a thoughtful, inquiry-oriented dialog between a university and six participating schools that encourages teachers to become more effective decision-makers. (MD)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Decision Making, Educational Change, Instructional Materials
Justice, Thomas I. – 1988
This report analyzes and documents the ways that existing educational service systems have successfully modified their roles in order to improve school-to-adult-life transition services for students with disabilities. The report is based on findings from development of a model cooperative transition services system, which revealed that new roles…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Role, Change Strategies, Disabilities

McAfee, James K. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1987
Therapists and educators in early childhood special education programs have several potential sources of conflict ensuing from differing professional backgrounds, quality control, coordination problems, material equity, and lack of policy. A model for intensive and extensive training to improve the integration of therapy and therapists into the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Conflict, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education. – 1987
This digest of 310 Project evaluation methods is intended to provide examples of and guidelines for evaluating 310 projects at the national, state, and project levels. The first section, which is devoted to state-level 310 evaluation projects, includes a report on a longitudinal study assessing the impact of 310 projects in Florida, a report…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Mattson, Beverly – 1995
This report presents samples of models and strategies for determining professional development needs of special education personnel. The following areas are covered: definitions of needs and the needs assessment process; personnel needs assessment regulations under the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development, the Individuals with…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Duke, Chris – 1992
This book examines the changing role of institutions of higher education within the context of bids made by British universities to the Universities Funding Council for funding, the changed organizational structures of British polytechnics, and the increasing importance of continuing education. Emphasis is on the new role of the university as a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Continuing Education, Educational Change, Faculty Development
Lauritzen, Paul – 1989
This manual addresses the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD) requirement of Public Law 94-142. It presents model procedures for the collection of data necessary to project personnel needs in special education. Implementation of the model will identify: areas of education which show need for additional teachers as well as areas of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities

Stephens, Peggy; Rous, Beth – 1992
This information packet was produced as part of outreach activities of Project STEPS (Sequenced Transition to Education in the Public Schools) which was created to develop an early childhood transition model for young children with disabilities. The model is intended to assist state and local agencies and covers four major component areas of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Family Involvement
Florida State Corrections Commission, Tallahassee. – 2000
The Florida Department of Corrections Distance Learning Program consists of the Corrections Distance Learning Network; offender programming; staff development; and the Agency Strategic Plan. The Corrections Distance Learning Network offers academic, vocational training, and life management skills programs for offenders and staff development and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Computer Uses in Education, Correctional Education
Augustine, Catherine H.; Levy, Dina G.; Benjamin, Roger W.; Bikson, Tora K.; Daley, Glenn A.; Gates, Susan M.; Kaganoff, Tessa; Moini, Joy S. – 2003
In 1998, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) established the DoD Office of the Chancellor for Education and Professional Development. Although achieving its mission requires that the chancellor's office influence the education and professional development providers' behavior, its charter grants it very limited formal authority to exercise such…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Continuing Education
Walker, David M. – 2001
The Comptroller General of the United States testified before Congress regarding the General Accounting Office's (GAO's) framework for building the information technology (IT) work force to achieve results. The following were among the key points of his testimony: (1) the federal government is facing pervasive human capital challenges that are…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Role, Adult Education, Adult Learning