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McConnell, Beverly – 1978
An early education program for preschool and elementary age migrant children up through third grade, the program operates year-round sites at Connell and Moses Lake, Washington and at La Grulla, Texas designed to meet the needs of bilingual migrant children. The program aims to overcome the need for some continuity in the child's educational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Early Childhood Education, Formative Evaluation
Download full textNational School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1998
The National School-to-Work Office in collaboration with the National Association for Gifted Children, the Council for Exceptional Children, the Association for the Gifted, and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted have identified 11 gifted education/school-to-work (GT/STW) models that are either best practices or unique…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Programs
Direct linkSpringer, Matthew G.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Taylor, Lori L.; Lopez, Omar S.; Peng, Art – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
This report presents findings from the second-year evaluation of the Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program. The GEEG program was federally- and state-funded and provided three-year grants to schools to design and implement performance pay plans from the 2005-06 to 2007-08 school years. GEEG was implemented in 99 high poverty, high…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, Factor Analysis
Shelton, Elaine – 1979
The Adult Performance Level (APL) Competency-Based High School Diploma (CBHSD) Program in Texas is briefly described. The program was developed as a flexible and effective alternative to a conventional high school diploma program and to the General Educational Development (GED) test. Program goals are expressed as competency outcomes which are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills
Dennis-Small, Lucretia – 1986
This final report is a process evaluation of the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Project describing the efforts to develop a statewide philosophy and an operational plan in Texas toward primary and secondary prevention of child abuse and neglect. Discussion focuses on the background and origin of the project, first and second year operations…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Community Involvement
McMillan, Samuel H., Jr. – 1979
The University of Texas Pilot Program was operated in five sites in Texas (Abilene, Brownsville, El Paso, Houston, and Temple) to demonstrate the utility of competency-based high school diplomas for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients. Included among the program features common to all five sites were the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, High School Equivalency Programs
Cross, Jack; Westbrook, Douglas – 1979
Two papers are included here, one presenting an overview of inservice education and the second presenting data on the attitudes of teachers toward inservice education in Texas. Specific concepts that have guided inservice education are focused on as well as (1) the many trends that have influenced it, (2) the objectives of the inservice programs,…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Faculty Development
Hexter, Holly – 1990
This paper describes state, institutional, and other community-based programs deemed exemplary (on the basis of design imperatives) for successful interventions to promote meaningful access of minority group youth to postsecondary education. The imperatives include early intervention, comprehensive and integrated intervention, intervention…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedHewlett-Gomez, Michele R.; Solis, Adela – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
An innovative English and Spanish instructional program for grades six through eight in a south Texas district integrates language and content areas, uses both languages, implements literacy strategies typical of elementary programs, accommodates varying Spanish and English proficiency and limited prior schooling, and employs Mexican teachers as…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teacher Aides, English (Second Language), Immigrants
Garza, Nora R.; Gibbs, Linda – 1994
Findings of two doctoral research studies analyzing the organizational and instructional characteristics of successful reading and mathematics developmental programs in Texas community colleges are presented in this report. The first paper describes a 1989-90 analysis of developmental reading test scores to determine the characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Hispanic American Students
Inequality In Education, 1976
Three articles describe the lifestyle of the children of migrant agricultural workers. First, Jose A. Cardenas provides an overview of education for migrant children. He notes academic performance deviations and underachievement resulting from their educational programs. Cardenas describes poor staffing, frequent segregation, curricula…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Curriculum
Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) Program: Year Two Evaluation Report. Policy Evaluation Report
Springer, Matthew G.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Gronberg, Timothy J.; Hamilton, Laura S.; Jansen, Dennis W.; Lopez, Omar S.; Peng, Art; Stecher, Brian M.; Taylor, Lori L. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
This report presents findings from the second year of a multi-year evaluation of the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program and background information about the design and implementation of the District Awards for Teacher Excellence (DATE) program. The TEEG and DATE programs operating in Texas make up the largest state-funded performance…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1988
The statewide overview of Texas bilingual and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs for limited-English-speaking public school students reports results of a survey concerning program and student characteristics and successful instructional practices. Data for bilingual and ESL programs are considered separately. Student characteristics…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Research, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Christian, Donna; Mahrer, Cindy – 1992
The first annual supplement to the 1991-1992 directory of two-way bilingual education programs in the United States profiles new and some existing programs in which language-minority and language-majority children are instructed in and through both languages. this volume contains data on 25 programs in Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Chinese, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1989
The Texas framework for modern and classical language programs in the elementary and secondary schools is intended to (1) establish a philosophy for a proficiency-based sequential language program; (2) outline the overall language program as specified in state rules and legislative mandates; and (3) describe expected student proficiency levels and…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Class Size, Classical Languages, Cognitive Processes
