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Download full textChang, Hedy Nai-Lin – 1990
This report provides an in-depth review of the "newcomer program phenomenon" and is designed to promote discussion of how schools can best educate and safeguard the rights of immigrant children. Through telephone interviews and site visits, the report presents data on the characteristic features of existing newcomer programs, the…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Educational Planning, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Gray, Brenda – 1991
The Career Skills Enhancement Program (CSEP) was a National Workplace Literacy Program offered to Santa Clara County (California) Office of Education (COE) employees. A job skills study involved personal interviews, job shadowing, and examination of job descriptions and materials used by employees. Based on the study and initial needs assessment,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Diagnostic Teaching, Illiteracy
American Univ., Washington, DC. Adult Learning Potential Inst. – 1980
This document on involvement by states and higher education in adult learning is one in a series of four developed to provide a comprehensive overview of the scope of training practices relating to adult learning. It consists of two sections, each summarizing the results of extensive surveys pertaining to training programs for special adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1977
California Assembly Bill 3408 requires school districts to adopt their own standards in basic skills, including reading comprehension, writing, and computation. Students must be tested at least once in grades 7-9 and twice in grades 10-11. After June, 1980, students who do not meet standards will not receive a high school diploma. Assembly Bill…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Community Involvement, Compliance (Legal)
Eureka Project, Sacramento, CA. – 1987
Designed to help educational policy makers understand student financial aid in California, this booklet covers the importance of aid, how it has changed, current programs, need analysis, packaging, public and student views, graduate aid, and politics and problems of aid. As student financial aid became a larger and more complex educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Financial Support
Gray (Naomi) Associates, Inc., San Francisco, CA. – 1984
The resource manual is designed to provide educators with information regarding some of the resources available in bilingual education for language minority students. It may also be useful to parents and community members involved in policy formation or interested in being well informed about bilingual education. The first section outlines the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational History, Educational Research
