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Download full textNadeau, Adel – Directions in Language and Education, 1996
The individual responsible for spearheading reform for the education of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in Linda Vista Elementary School (San Diego, California) describes the process, issues, and outcomes of the initiative in this theme issue. Linda Vista Elementary School has a student population that is 77 percent LEP. The personalized…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Bowyer, Karen A. – Southern Association of Community, Junior, and Technical Colleges (SACJTC) Occasional Paper, 1990
In 1988, the American College Testing Program, together with the National Council of Instructional Administrators and the National Council for Student Development, initiated Project Cooperation (PC) to examine outcomes assessment strategies and measures of institutional effectiveness among two-year colleges. The first initiative of PC was a survey…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
Turnbaugh, Ann – Resource Bulletin, 1986
This resource bulletin provides an overview of creative disciplinary programs in rural, suburban, and urban school settings through interviews conducted with administrators in 1986. Principals interviewed in urban settings expressed concern about student gangs and safety. In rural schools, administrators stated that community cohesion and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Discipline Policy
Farrell, Daniel T. – Florida Educational Research Council Research Bulletin, 1997
A survey of 172 teachers of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) investigated the extent of level system use in special education classrooms, characteristics of teachers and students who use level systems, characteristics of level system operation, teacher perceptions of level system effectiveness, and their satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Harris, Monica, Ed. – Smart Start News, 1999
Smart Start is a comprehensive public-private initiative to help all North Carolina children enter school healthy and ready to succeed, and provides children from birth to age five access to high-quality and affordable child care, health care, and other critical services. This document comprises the first two issues of "Smart Start…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Cooperation, Day Care, Day Care Effects
Reid, Jennifer; And Others – Interchange, 1996
This report describes a research project that studied: the speech and language needs of Scottish children and young people with special educational needs, collaboration among parents and professionals, and the perceived effectiveness of different ways of providing speech and language therapy. Data were obtained from a series of mailed…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Impairments
New Jersey Research Bulletin, 1996
In 1996, the effectiveness of New Jersey's Perkins Act-funded single parent/displaced homemaker and gender equity programs were evaluated through a 20-question equity standards survey. The survey was administered to all clients before each program began and 6 weeks after completion of those portions of the programs pertaining to equity standards.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Comparative Analysis, Displaced Homemakers
JTPA Issues, 1990
The first three steps to developing a program that is both effective and efficient are participant selection, recruitment, and assignment. They require thinking about the populations to be targeted, considering how to open the door to the population and how to get the population in the door, and determining the services that are needed. The Job…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Educational Quality, Employment Programs
McRAT Report, 1991
The Multicultural Reading and Thinking (McRAT) Program of the Arkansas public schools is described, and results of a study of its effectiveness are reported. The McRAT Program is a process that empowers teachers to refocus instruction and restructure standard curricula for higher order thinking. The multicultural emphasis provides a meaningful…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Strategies, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Heslop, Yvonne, Ed. – ASPBAE Courier, 1989
This special issue of the "Courier" has been produced to mark the beginning of International Literacy Year 1990. It brings together papers from adult educators involved in literacy work about who needs literacy and why, what literacy is, who can help in creating the right conditions for literacy to succeed, and how to evaluate literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
McPherson, Michael S.; And Others – Rockefeller Institute Conference Proceedings, 1985
This paper examines the problem of determining how effective student aid programs have been in promoting the college enrollment of lower income and disadvantaged students and analyzes the institutional means through which federal aid policies have been implemented. The importance of considering the key role of state and institutional responses to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Jensen, Mary Cihak – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
Partnerships between schools and businesses are becoming more frequent and more reciprocal as the two find common interests; the Salem-Keizer (Oregon) Public Schools provide a nationally recognized example of such a partnership. Salem's program began in 1981 with a joint school board and Chamber of Commerce policy statement. Despite economic…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Smale, Jim, Ed. – Early Childhood Matters: The Bulletin of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2000
This document consists of the three 2000 issues of The Bernard van Leer Foundation's "Early Childhood Matters." This periodical, addressed to practitioners in the field of early childhood education, evolved from an in-house publication directed to projects funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Articles in the February 2000 edition…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Role, Childhood Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Education
Jim Smale – Early Childhood Matters, 2001
This document consists of the three 2001 issues of The Bernard van Leer Foundation's "Early Childhood Matters," a periodical addressed to practitioners in the field of early childhood education and including information on projects funded by the foundation. Articles in the February 2001 edition focus on fathers and include: (1)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Rights, Culturally Relevant Education
Look at Even Start, 1995
Even Start is a family support program focusing on family literacy and school readiness. These first seven issues of the "Look at Even Start" newsletter cover topics such as transition between preschool and kindergarten, collaboration between programs and between parents and programs, ways Even Start programs respond to parents' needs…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Family Literacy, Family Programs
