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Bridgebuilding in Higher Education: A Landscape Analysis
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Becca Hartman-Pickerill; Rebecca Russo – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Interfaith America's 2023 Landscape Analysis explores the purpose, range of desired outcomes, promising models, challenges, and opportunities of bridgebuilding efforts across U.S. higher education. This article articulates the importance of bridgebuilding for the sector and summarizes key findings from the Landscape Analysis. It highlights…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Partnerships in Education, Campuses
Fact Sheet: Bolstering Student Attendance, Engagement, and Success through Career-Connected Learning
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Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
Career-connected learning is an educational strategy that combines high-quality academic instruction, skill-based learning, and real-world experiences to prepare students with the knowledge and skills that they need to pursue their college and career goals. Career-connected learning can be delivered in a variety of ways, including in core content…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Quality, Career Readiness, Student Centered Learning
Constructing a Self-Funded Program Takes More than Just Dollars and Cents
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Burke, Scott – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
With a little ingenuity and a lot of dedication, the author created a self-funded construction program that is weathering the ups and downs of school funding; it enjoys great support from the community, is accomplishing more with less, and collaborative efforts between teachers are paying off. Creating such a program takes time, vision,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Emotional Development, Full Time Equivalency
Reconciling an Ecological Curricular Framework Focusing on Quality of Life Outcomes with the Development and Instruction of Standards-Based Academic Goals
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Hunt, Pam; McDonnell, John; Crockett, Margret A. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2012
The emergence of the standards-based reform movement has raised a number of issues related to the design of educational programs for students with severe disabilities, and a debate has arisen that presents an "either/or" choice between the general education curriculum and an ecological curricular framework that has traditionally guided…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Lifelong Learning, Quality of Life, Curriculum Development
High Schools Can Visibly Improve: The District That Became a Model.
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VonVillas, Barbara A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1996
High school improvement is possible with visionary leadership and common goals. Ayer (Massachusetts) High School is a small, comprehensive school that has restructured itself to meet 21st century needs. Revolutionary changes have occurred in instructional improvement, core curriculum, technology education, class size, graduation requirements,…
Descriptors: Class Size, Community Involvement, Core Curriculum, Graduation Requirements
Developing a Competency-Based Adult Education (CBAE) Program. A Handbook for Kansas Adult Educators.
Goodman, Deborah – 1977
This handbook for Kansas adult educators presents a process for providing competency-based adult education (CBAE) and supporting materials. The narrative describes and then charts these seven steps in development and implementation of a CBAE program: develop and adapt philosophy, evaluate current program, collect set of goals and objectives from…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Community Involvement