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Goodwin, Gretta L. – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for managing the care and custody of approximately 175,000 federal inmates--an estimated 20 percent of whom have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review BOP's efforts to provide drug treatment to federal inmates. This report (1)…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Substance Abuse
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Smith-Sebasto, N. J. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2007
The author presents the findings of a study that explored teachers' motivations toward and perspectives of the residential environmental education (EE) program at the New Jersey School of Conservation (NJSOC). Thirty-five program coordinators were administered a 24-item instrument that explored the variables of interest. The findings revealed that…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Curriculum Development, Conservation (Environment), Teacher Motivation
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Bastien, James S.; Burns, William J.; Kelly, Francis D.; Schumm, Patricia A.; Allen, Theresa P. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2005
In large residential treatment centers for adolescent youth, program administrators and clinical staff rely on the information imparted to them by direct care staff to make appropriate decisions regarding administrative and clinical support functions so that the residents in care can receive the best treatment possible. This study was designed to…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Efficiency, Reports, Adolescents
Andrews, Robert J.; And Others – 1979
The results of a survey of special education provisions, needs, and priorities in Australia are presented. It is explained that questionnaires were sent to primary and secondary schools in each state and territory, government and nongovernment special schools and their teachers, and to teachers in special classes/units attached to regular schools.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Lakin, K. Charlie; And Others – 1990
The second of five volumes of a report on instructional programs for handicapped children and youth in day and residential facilities, this document describes methodologies and results of the first of four components of the study, a national survey of separate facilities for handicapped children and youth which yielded responses from 1,315 day…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Day Programs, Disabilities, Educational Change
Johnson, Terry; Gritz, Mark; Jackson, Russell; Burghardt, John; Boussy, Carol; Leonard, Jan; Orians, Carlyn – 1999
This report presents results of a process analysis that describes and documents Job Corps services and operations. Chapter one provides overviews of Job Corps, the national Job Corps study, and the process analysis. Chapter two describes the administrative structure of Job Corps and presents data on the geographic distribution and characteristics…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Career Exploration, Disadvantaged