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Download full textCotton, Kathleen J.; And Others – 1988
This directory is a compendium of 108 outstanding Education Consolidation Improvement Act Chapter 1 compensatory education projects selected for recognition by the United States Department of Education in 1987. It is the fourth volume in the "Effective Compensatory Education Sourcebook" series. Volume 1 consists of a review of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs
Sequoia Union High School District, Redwood City, CA. – 1984
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: The Peninsula Academies program helps educationally disadvantaged youth overcome the handicaps of low academic achievement, lack of skills, and chronic unemployment. This is accomplished by providing a high school curriculum that is clearly related to work, training in specific job skills, emphasis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Burac, Zipura T. – 1992
Designed for educational administrators, state-level personnel, program coordinators, teachers, and researchers, this monograph highlights five exemplary vocational programs serving individuals from special populations. Identified through an extensive national search in 1990, each program exemplifies successful practices for secondary and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Curriculum, Demonstration Programs
Vocational Improvement Practices. Promising Practices in Connecticut Vocational and Adult Education.
Connecticut State Board of Education, Hartford. – 1985
This compendium provides information concerning promising methods and techniques in vocational and adult education in Connecticut during the 1984-85 school year. It is targeted at educators who wish to improve their own vocational and adult education programs and services. Practices described in the document were selected by a panel of educators…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Animal Husbandry
Nemko, Barbara; Feichtner, Shiela H. – 1990
This resource guide is designed to assist career-vocational educators in providing disadvantaged students with the skills wanted by employers and to increase educators' effectiveness in teaching academically and economically disadvantaged students with limited English proficiency (LEP). The guide is divided into five sections. "The Disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Acceleration (Education), Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 1981
This manual, developed for use by Peace Corps volunteers, attempts to help development counselors to understand the needs of remote-area groups and to provide for those needs through effective self-help projects. The projects covered are those that can solve most effectively, on the village level, the most pressing problems. The manual is written…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Agricultural Production
Totten, Leah; Dodson, David; Thomasson, Julie – 2000
This report profiles 12 programs conducted as part of the Hitachi Foundation's Partnerships in Economic and Educational Opportunity Initiative. The introduction and overview explain the goals of the initiative, which was undertaken to improve the economic and career options available to young people who have traditionally been underserved by…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Career Education, Change Strategies
