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Zeng, Wen; Ju, Song; Hord, Casey – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018
The number of students with learning disabilities (LD) enrolling in postsecondary education has increased rapidly over the past decade. It is imperative to investigate what interventions have been used to assist students with LD in achieving academic success. To examine the interventions currently used to support students with LD in postsecondary…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Intervention, College Students, Learning Disabilities
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2010
In January 2010, the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) issued a progress report on three studies being conducted by the Center that examine the implementation and outcomes of Programs of Study (POS), which were required in the 2006 reauthorization of the federal legislation for career and technical education…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Tech Prep
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Lapan, Richard T.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Petroski, Gregory F. – Professional School Counseling, 2003
Examines the relationship between statewide implementation of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs and indicators of success and safety for seventh graders (N=22,601). Students attending schools with more fully implemented comprehensive programs reported: feeling safer attending schools; having better relationships with their teachers;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Grade 7
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Lapan, Richard T.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Petroski, Gregory F. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2001
Examines the relationship between statewide implementation of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs and indicators of success and safety for seventh graders (N=22,601). Students attending schools with more fully implemented comprehensive programs reported: feeling safer attending schools; having better relationships with their teachers;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Grade 7
Rury, John L. – 1999
James Bryant Conant issued his famous report, "The American High School Today," in 1959, giving voice to a clear and influential reaffirmation of the comprehensive secondary school. Conant's vision in this, and in another work, "Slums and Suburbs" (1961) makes an interesting point of departure for consideration of the forces…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Comprehensive Programs, Consolidated Schools
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1982
The movement toward school consolidation was triggered by James Bryant Conant's contention that larger schools are more efficient and offer more comprehensive programs. Many studies seem to support the claim that larger schools are cheaper to operate. Yet problems with these studies include wide variation in the minimum, optimum, and maximum sizes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Consolidated Schools, Cost Effectiveness