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Kennamer, Mike; Katsinas, Stephen G. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The $17.2 million Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) demonstration grant program funded by the Ford Foundation which ran from 1994 to 2001 represents the largest philanthropic project specifically aimed at rural community colleges in United States history. While a good deal of literature has been published about this initiative, much was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Grants, Educational History, Reflection
Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2010
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) was established in 1990 as the first urban education reform in the U.S. built around the idea of permitting parents to enroll their children in private schools of their choosing at government expense. In its first year of operation, the MPCP or "Choice" program enrolled 341 students in the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement
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Hamilton, Jack A.; Mitchell, Anita M. – Journal of Career Education, 1979
Presents criteria used to identify the nation's best evaluated exemplary career education activities and provides a list of the seven programs reviewed by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel and judged to be exemplary. (MF)
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Programs
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Melbourne (Australia). – 1963
IN THIS REPORT OF AN AUSTRALIAN TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON CASE STUDIES AND RESEARCH APPLICABLE TO PROFESSIONAL EXTENSION WORK, INCLUDING FARMER CONTACTS AND SUCH SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES AS LIAISON WORK AND COURSE WORK IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES. THE FIRST SECTION DESCRIBES SERVICES IN EACH STATE AND IN THE…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Case Studies, Clubs, Comparative Education
New Educational Directions, Crawfordsville, IN. – 1977
A project involved the compilation of recommendations appearing in the final performance and evaluation reports of eighty-one career education programs funded by the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) during 1976. After undergoing four reviews, 475 recommendations which were project specific were eliminated and the remaining 230 recommendations were…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Career Education, Consultants