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Howley, Craig B.; And Others – 1988
This article describes work on a new tool to help educators increase parental involvement in their schools using the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). When the authors set out on their goal in rural Hart County, Kentucky, they discovered that no instrument existed to measure changes in the level of parental involvement. Using…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Techniques, Parent Attitudes
Federal City Council, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report presents a comprehensive plan, developed by the D.C. Committee on Public Education, to help strengthen the public schools in the District of Columbia. Chapter 1, "An Introduction: A Vision of the Future," contains the following sections: (1) "Description of the Committee"; (2) "Philosophy and Beliefs of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Creech, Joseph D. – 1999
The percentage of adults with high school diplomas is higher today than 10 years ago in every Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) state, but most SREB states will not reach the goal of 90 percent of all adults with high school diplomas or equivalent by 2000. The change is the result of state and local efforts to identify and attract more…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Opportunities, English (Second Language)
Martinez, Paul – FE Matters, 1999
The report provides a survey of staff development (SD) managers in 505 English, Welsh, and Scottish further education colleges (227 responses). The objective was to determine how much SD has changed and matured since incorporation, and how much it has created benchmarks. Findings indicated that few staff developers had a relevant SD qualification.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Faculty, Colleges
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 1993
Colorado institutions of higher education approved to provide teacher education submit annual reports to the Colorado Department of Education for the purpose of facilitating communication between the institutions and the Department of Education and to inform the Colorado State Board of Education of current developments in teacher education in the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Beginning Teachers, College Graduates, Educational Change
Creadick, Jean Polhamus – 1989
This report examines the facilitation of financing higher education in Hawaii. The report covers financial aid programs available to Hawaii college students, as well as prepaid and guaranteed tuition programs and college savings programs. Following an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 focuses on threshold questions such as state constitutional…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Federal Regulation
Missouri State Coordinating Board for Higher Education, Jefferson City. – 1983
As part of an evaluation of the Missouri master plan for higher education, changes affecting instructional programs in public four-year institutions in the state are reviewed for the period 1972-1982. Attention is directed to headcount enrollment and instructional programs, degrees conferred, new program development and degree productivity, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Programs, Degrees (Academic)
Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 2000
The Washington State Displaced Homemaker Program (DHP) as administered by the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) accomplished its goals during the 1997-99 biennium. Four multipurpose service centers provided services to displaced homemakers in urban and rural county areas; four programs provided services to displaced homemakers in rural…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Services, Information Services
National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities, 2007
The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) was assigned the task of summarizing and analyzing the data for Indicator 2--Dropout--from the 2005-06 Annual Performance Reports (APRs) and the revised State Performance Plans (SPPs), which were submitted to the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in February…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Disabilities, Dropouts, Special Education
Whitley, Elizabeth B.; Skiles, Laura Lopater – 1992
This manual presents information about major causes of developmental disabilities, discusses strategies to prevent development disabilities, and identifies relevant resources and reference material. Introductory information defines developmental disabilities and prevention (under Virginia statutes). The first section considers causes prior to and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventitious Impairments, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Butler, E. Dean; And Others – 1981
A research study addressed the question: "If new and different information about some aspect of reality can produce attitude changes, can this be empirically verified in the case of foundational studies in teacher education?" Four hundred ninety education students, during the first two weeks of their required education classes, responded to two…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Core Curriculum
Harris, Lynn J. – 1979
A pilot study was initiated to achieve reliability and especially validity indexes for measuring research and development impact. Two opposing questionnaires were administered to each of three target groups: 164 high school vocational education students, 120 secondary school vocational education teachers, and 56 vocational education…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Item Analysis, Program Development, Questionnaires
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Education, Raleigh. – 1997
In North Carolina, work force development education (WDE) begins in grade 6 with exploratory courses and leads to specialized classroom instruction in grades 11 and 12. Since 1992-1993, North Carolina's WDE programs have been evaluated with respect to eight long-range performance standards. Only in the case of standard 1 (all students will have…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Educational Objectives, Educational Trends
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1976
This report provides descriptive information for public officials and the general public about Maryland's public schools. It is the second report required by the Maryland Educational Accountability Act. This second report contains information about: the implementation of the Maryland Accountability Program on the State and local school system…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Cheng, Maisy; Yau, Maria – 1998
This report provides a snapshot of the former Toronto (Ontario, Canada) secondary schools as they were in the spring of 1997. The 1997 survey of secondary school students is the ninth in a series going back to 1970. Data from these surveys is used in identifying student needs and developing programs to help students of all backgrounds to achieve…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Diversity (Student), Extracurricular Activities, Foreign Countries
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