In the late fall of 1988, a study was undertaken of retention efforts focusing on minority students enrolled in occupational education programs in New York two-year colleges. Specifically, the study sought to determine the extent to which the state's colleges had programs or services to facilitate the persistence and retention of minority students…

These guidelines were designed to provide useful information for hospital school administrators, teachers, and public school staffs in establishing and improving hospital school programs (HSP); and to further define the the position of the Association for the Care of Children's Health concerning the goals of hospital school programs. The rationale…

The guidelines are designed to help Oklahoma school administrators, counselors, teachers, and parents better understand learning disabilities. Following an excerpt from the Federal Register regarding evaluation of learning disabled (LD) students, the following three topics are addressed: (1) the referral process (pre-refereal and formal referral);…

In this revised edition listings are included for over 50 organizations offering some kind of student financial aid or exchange programs. For each organization the address or addresses and telephone number are given, as well as information on its composition and purposes, areas of interest, holdings (specialized information collections),…

This document includes the descriptions of the 179 projects that received support from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education in 1975-76. The content represents resources for change, not capital resources, but those noncapital resources essential to improvement--people, institutions, and ideas. The Project Directors named are…

This booklet compiles information on Iowa's statewide system of postsecondary area schools. A history of the junior college movement in Iowa and the formation of the area schools is provided, including statistical data covering the 10-year period 1966-1975. There are currently 15 area schools operating in Iowa. The merged areas of the schools…

The document is intended as ready compilation of services and training programs available to local units of government, their officials and employees. It is organized into functional areas with subcategories of services and training offered by State agencies, educational institutions, and private entities. Agency contact personnel, substate…

The movement to introduce law studies in the schools has gained great momentum since 1972. This directory describes law-related educational activities and programs K-12 being conducted throughout the United States. In an effort to prevent duplication of effort by providing information about projects, this second edition updates the first by the…

This comprehensive resource guide describes programs and services for young children (prenatal to age 8) and their families in Alaska. Information for the resource guide was collected from state departmental budget documents, program guides, annual reports, and program personnel. In compiling this information, certain trends concerning children's…

Alternative education programs for disruptive and at-risk students in Pennsylvania were studied to determine the characteristics that make such programs successful. This report presents the results of the analysis and lists model programs and other operating programs in Pennsylvania. Suspension and expulsion are stopgap solutions that relieve the…

The National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education (ECI) was established to carry out a comprehensive program of research, development, and dissemination to improve young children's learning and development. This directory contains information on the programs and projects funded by ECI in fiscal year 1998. The directory's 10…

This publication contains abstracts of documents concerning the transition from school to work that were published in Australia since August 1980. The abstracts are arranged in the following categories: (1) social and educational developments in policy analysis and research; (2) programs involving proposals, reports, and evaluations; (3) program…

This booklet describes 26 projects funded by Pennsylvania (PA) Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE). Descriptions include title, purpose, impact, project outcomes, conclusions or recommendations, project continuation or future implications, product, project director, and descriptors. The following projects are profiled: AchievE:…

This guide contains an annotated bibliography of 107 resources for: (1) Basic 0-4; (2) Adult Basic Education; (3) English as a Second Language; (4) pre-General Educational Development Test; (5) General Educational Development Test; and (6) workplace programs published since 1986. It also contains a listing of job-specific workplace curriculum and…

This directory is a broad-based compilation of schools, agencies, organizations, and programs in the governmental and private, non-profit sectors that provide a wide variety of direct and indirect services, information, and other assistance to individuals with blindness or visual impairments. Organized information on producers and distributors of…