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Frey, Susan – EdSource, 2012
Adult schools are facing the biggest threat to their existence since the first school was founded in California a century and a half ago. An EdSource survey in October-November 2011 found that 23 of the state's 30 largest school districts had made major cuts to their adult education programs, including Anaheim Union High School District, which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Finance, School Districts, Educational Change
Reid, Monica; Jacobs, Jim; Ivanier, Analia; Morest, Vanessa Smith – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2007
The purpose of this research study was to determine the role of regional centers in the Advanced Technical Education (ATE) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC), the researchers began by asking whether the concept of a regional center was unique and useful to NSF's goals of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Technical Education
Grummon, Phyllis T. H. – 1994
A longitudinal study examined the factors affecting the long-term success of a midwestern tech prep consortium consisting of one community college and four counties with a mix of rural, urban, and suburban communities. The study was designed to identify the effects of systematic change over time from the following perspectives: students' skill…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Articulation (Education), Attitude Change