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Approaches to Providing Comprehensive Services in Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships
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Banghart, Patti; Cook, Maya; Zaslow, Martha – Child Trends, 2020
In 2014, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) distributed 250 grants across states and localities in the United States and its territories to establish Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CCPs) to expand access to high-quality child care. A cornerstone of Early Head Start (EHS) is the provision of comprehensive services.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education, Child Care
Inner London's Education Authority: Reflections on ILEA Twenty-Five Years after Closure
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Mitchell, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
It is 25 years since the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) was abolished and management of education in central London transferred to 13 London boroughs. The author reflects on the experience of being an ex-ILEA head teacher, and of managing one of the new local education authorities in the immediate post-ILEA period. He begins by commenting…
Descriptors: Reflection, School District Reorganization, Local Government, Organizational Change
Virginia's Academic and Career Plan Emphasizes Middle School
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Jones, Virginia R. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
To have a meaningful, fulfilling career in the 21st century workplace, students need technical and academic skills as well as the ability to think and work collaboratively with others. Career education must begin in middle school or earlier to allow students time to develop the aptitudes, skills and attitudes necessary to develop an awareness of…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Comprehensive Guidance, Comprehensive Programs, Transitional Programs
Obesity Prevention in Early Adolescence: Student, Parent, and Teacher Views
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Power, Thomas G.; Bindler, Ruth C.; Goetz, Summer; Daratha, Kenneth B. – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: Obesity is a significant health problem among today's youth; however, most school-based prevention programs in this area have had limited success. Focus groups were conducted with seventh- to eighth-grade students, parents, and teachers to provide insight into the development of a comprehensive program for the prevention of adolescent…
Descriptors: Obesity, Physical Activities, Prevention, Focus Groups
Post-16 Educational Choices and Institutional Value Added at Key Stage 5. CEE DP 124
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Crawford, Claire; Meschi, Elena; Vignoles, Anna – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2011
In the UK there has historically been a clear demarcation between the academic and vocational routes through education post-16. Generally vocational study is taken either on a part time basis or full time at Further Education (FE) colleges. Students who want to take academic qualifications such as A levels have the option to enrol in a school…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Academic Education, College Choice, Postsecondary Education
Raising the Leaving Learning Age: Are the Public Convinced? A Survey of Parents and Teenagers. Research Report
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Villeneuve-Smith, Frank; Marshall, Liz; Munoz, Silvia – Learning and Skills Network (NJ1), 2007
This research explores the attitudes of parents and teenagers towards the proposals in the "Raising expectations" Green Paper. It is based on a public opinion poll of 920 parents and 380 teenagers in the United Kingdom, which ran between 30 March and 10 April 2007. The results were analysed by Learning and Skills Network statisticians.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Adolescent Attitudes, Program Attitudes