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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
Students in the City-As-School (CAS) program, an alternative high school in New York City, spend 95 percent of their school time at field-based learning sites, such as business, civic, and cultural organizations. A majority of the participants are dropouts, or were high risk students before entering the program. In 1985, CAS was awarded a grant to…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Field Experience Programs, High Schools, Information Dissemination
PDF pending restorationMortenson, Robert A.; Grady, Michael P. – 1979
Increased attention to inservice teacher education needs has isolated four major structural dimensions associated with the design of effective inservice programs. The INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION REPORT I: ISSUES TO FACE (ISTE) explicates an early model of program construction, utilizing these four concepts. Governance, concerned with the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Decision Making, Demonstration Programs
Peer reviewedCarroll, Thomas G. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
To advance educational innovation, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education supports a practitioner-based action research approach to educational improvement through project reporting, conferences, project clusters, Lessons Learned publications, feedback, policy revisions, and dissemination grants. The fund attempts to sustain a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Demonstration Programs, Educational Cooperation, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedDatta, Lois-ellin – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
Dissemination approaches of the U.S. Department of Education are explored in the context of federal efforts to recognize the best, considering relatively systematic approaches to recognition and the five vulnerable evaluation areas of (1) undefined universes; (2) noncomparable goals; (3) identifying reproducible conditions; (4) saturation; and (5)…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKlein, Susan Shurberg – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
After describing inadequacies of current U.S. Department of Education funding strategies in identifying and sharing the best of research and development, this article outlines an alternative vision centered on using evaluation to guide replication. How to overcome constraints in implementing this vision for federal education leadership is…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKatzenmeyer, Conrad G. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
Two approaches for identifying, evaluating, and disseminating materials are discussed. One is the National Diffusion Network and its Program Effectiveness Panel, and the other is the Committee on Education and Human Resources, a new interagency effort with potential for examining a large body of generally underutilized mathematics and science…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Center for Population Options, Washington, DC. – 1990
This report evaluates the High Risk Youth Demonstration Project, which is predicated on the idea that youth-serving agencies (YSAs) can be key sources for adolescent AIDS education. When the Center for Population Options (CPO) conceptualized a strategy for bringing AIDS education to underserved youth, it was responding to the following three areas…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Case Studies
Peer reviewedPeters, Laurence – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
The case for an in-depth evaluation of many federal education programs is argued, particularly those providing site-specific information capable of informing program improvement. The reauthorization of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) offers an opportunity for the U.S. Department of Education to play a leadership role in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government
Peer reviewedScott, Elois M. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
As part of the Chapter 1 program, the U.S. Department of Education conducts research activities and uses nominations from a variety of sources to identify promising practices and document their success. The department disseminates this information through its award process in the Chapter 1 School Recognition Program. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Awards, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs
Nickse, Ruth S. – 1984
In academic year 1983-84, 19 postsecondary institutions participated in adult literacy projects under the Federal College Work Study (CWS) Program as part of the National Adult Literacy Initiative. (This report presents data from the 18 projects that returned questionnaires.) Approximately 256 college students tutored in reading, writing, math,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Download full textMolina, Frieda; Nelson, Laura C. – 2001
The Neighborhood Jobs Initiative (NJI) began in 1998 in five cities (Chicago, Fort Worth, Hartford, New York, and Washington, D.C.) in 1998. The NJI targets high-poverty urban neighborhoods, attempting to connect residents to employment opportunities nearby and in the urban periphery by providing training, supporting interpersonal networks, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Development, Cooperative Planning, Demonstration Programs
Barker, Kathryn Chang – 1991
The pilot Job Effectiveness Training (JET) workplace basic skills program, developed by Canada's Alberta Vocational College (AVC), Edmonton, for Stelco Steel during 1989-90, was evaluated in terms of impacts or changes from the perspective of the four major stakeholder groups: the students (12 Stelco employees); the employers (Stelco management);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, College Programs
