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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1973
The following witnesses testified before these hearings of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs: Mrs. G. Marsh, area consultant, Division of Food and Nutrition Services, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Mrs. G. Chegwidden, director, School Food Service, Franklin Regional School District, Murrysville, Pa.; Mr. S. Lympany, senior…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dental Schools, Dietetics, Educational Finance
Direct linkFarley, Chelsea – Public/Private Ventures, 2004
This first issue in P/PV's "In Brief" series focuses on the Amachi program, which partners faith-based organizations with public agencies and nonprofit service providers to identify the children of prisoners and match them with caring adult volunteers. "Amachi In Brief" touches on the program's development and recruiting…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Volunteers, Religious Organizations, Cooperative Programs
Peer reviewedGonick, Marnina; Shannon, Laura; Allison, Amy – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2006
Written in the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf's essay, "A Room of One's Own," invites its readers to join her in search of the answer to the question of "women and fiction," and in the process the readers are treated to a piercingly articulate perspective on the condition of women in a world culture built on women's…
Descriptors: Females, Personal Narratives, Gender Issues, Feminism
Ogan, Amy; Aleven, Vincent; Jones, Christopher – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
Most successes in intelligent tutoring systems have come in well-defined domains like algebra or physics. We investigate how to support students in acquiring ill-defined skills of intercultural competence using an online environment that employs clips of feature films from a target culture. To test the effectiveness of a set of attention-focusing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Perspective Taking, Cultural Awareness
Chester County Opportunities Industrialization Center, West Chester, PA. – 1994
An evening adult literacy program was developed to provide pre-General Educational Development (GED) instruction to residents of a men's shelter who desired to become dry cleaners pressers. Because an intake assessment of the 32 enrollees revealed that only 34% of them were high school dropouts and more than 50% had some college background, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Washington-Greene County Community Action Corp., Waynesburg, PA. – 1993
An existing 353 project that used professional staff as distance education contact persons for students in General Educational Development (GED) programs in rural areas was modified so that volunteer instructional aides (IAs) could serve as contact persons for GED students choosing the program's home study option. A home study packet to be used in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Distance Education, High School Equivalency Programs
VanHorn, Barbara Hart; And Others – 1987
The result of interviews with literacy coordinators and library directors of literacy programs in representative libraries throughout Pennsylvania, this document encourages local libraries to develop adult literacy activities as an integral component of basic library service and provides program planners with guidelines and suggestions for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Advocacy, Basic Skills
Proger, Barton B. – 1979
Highlights of the findings of eleven program evaluation and planning committees within the division of special education in Pennsylvania and options in the future implementation of each program area are summarized. The committee had the following purposes: (1) to revise the structure of long range and short range planning within the division of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Administration, Educational Planning
KITZMILLER, RICHARD L. – 1967
THE TERM "SLOW LEARNER" IS USED IN THIS REPORT TO DESIGNATE THE 18 TO 20 PERCENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO MEASURE APPROXIMATELY 50 TO 89 IQ ON INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS. THE PURPOSES OF THE PROJECT WERE TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY BEST SUITED TO THE ABILITIES AND INTERESTS OF THE SLOW LEARNER, ADOPT CRITERIA FOR OPTIMUM…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Courses, Curriculum Research, Demonstration Programs
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Public Instruction, Harrisburg. Bureau of Vocational, Technical, and Continuing Education. – 1973
The document establishes annual and long-range program plan provisions for the development, expansion, and improvement of vocational education for youth and adults of the Commonwealth. It describes the bureau's long-range objectives and annual program provisions for service based upon evidence of manpower needs, job opportunities, population…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Demography, Educational Legislation, Employment Opportunities
Leahy, Meredyth A. – 1986
The purpose of this report was to develop a plan for adult education staff development directed towards enhancing and expanding the delivery of training to Adult Basic Education (ABE), General Educational Development (GED), and English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) staff in Pennsylvania. It is intended to provide guidance and direction to adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Change Strategies, English (Second Language), High School Equivalency Programs
Hawk, Kim; And Others – 1994
Project CONNECT (Inmate Advocacy) was developed to provide counseling to inmates involved in the education programs at Fayette County Prison in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, before and immediately following their release. Twenty-one inmates who had been selected through a screening process received individual basic skills remediation in a classroom…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Advocacy, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation
Stroul, Beth A.; And Others – 1992
The case studies contained in this document were developed as part of a national project to identify communities that have made substantial progress toward developing comprehensive, coordinated, community-based systems of care for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and their families. After initial identification,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Children
Crumrine, Myron A. – 1978
A project was designed to develop a vocational course to satisfy an industry request for trained manpower in petroleum production. During phase one the feasibility was studied, formal instruction determined, an instructor named, site located and secured, and students selected for the class. A three-year trade and industrial level course for…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Job Analysis, Petroleum Industry
Smutz, Wayne D.; And Others – 1981
The Practice Audit Model, a direct outgrowth of the Pennsylvania Pharmacists' Professional Development Program, provides a systematic framework in which to assess occupational and professional practitioners' continuing education needs and develop programs to meet those needs. The ultimate objective of the Practice Audit Model is to assist…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Planning, Educational Research
