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Direct linkColby, Jolie Chrisanne – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation explored the roles schools can play in the successful outcomes of large carnivore or keystone reintroduction projects. Schools are more than centers for knowledge acquisition--they connect their community and disseminate information quickly to a wide audience. This study took place in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada, a…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Wildlife, Units of Study, Grade 6
One State's Systems Change Efforts to Reduce Child Care Expulsion: Taking the Pyramid Model to Scale
Peer reviewedVinh, Megan; Strain, Phil; Davidon, Sarah; Smith, Barbara J. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2016
This article describes the efforts funded by the state of Colorado to address unacceptably high rates of expulsion from child care. Based on the results of a 2006 survey, the state of Colorado launched two complementary policy initiatives in 2009 to impact expulsion rates and to improve the use of evidence-based practices related to challenging…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Child Care, Educational Policy, State Policy
Busse, R. T.; Elliott, Stephen N.; Kratochwill, Thomas R. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2010
The purpose of this article is to present Convergent Evidence Scaling (CES) as an emergent method for combining data from multiple assessment indicators. The CES method combines single-case assessment data by converging data gathered across multiple persons, settings, or measures, thereby providing an overall criterion-referenced outcome on which…
Descriptors: Scaling, Integrity, Decision Making, State Programs
Wiley, Andrew; Siperstein, Gary – Behavioral Disorders, 2011
Investigations of why students with emotional disturbance (ED) are underidentified in special education have often focused on economic factors and problems with the definition of ED. The present study focuses on variation in underidentification across states and its relationship to political ideology. State-level political, economic, and…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Identification, Special Education
Download full textChildren's Action Alliance, Phoenix, AZ. – 1990
This report was written in an effort to establish a new strategy for reducing the odds of failure for thousands of Arizona's vulnerable children and their families. It echoes the sentiments of a growing number of policymakers, concerned citizens, and parents who hold that the cost of child and family problems is so dramatic, and the amount of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Childhood Needs, Family Problems, Family Programs
Cooper, Richard – 1996
A project provided more than 800 adult educators in Pennsylvania with a wide range of staff development activities and instructional strategies for teaching students with learning differences and multilevel abilities in the same classroom. It established a model for staff development that built upon previous projects and used a variety of delivery…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques, Heterogeneous Grouping
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1971
A summary of the educational assessment activities (as of early 1971) in each of the fifty states and District of Columbia is given. Information was gathered through interviews held in each state by staff members of ETS. Similarities in the activities of many states include the setting of statewide educational goals, application of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Problems
Feinberg, Mark E.; Gomez, Brendan J.; Puddy, Richard W.; Greenberg, Mark T. – Health Education & Behavior, 2008
Community coalitions (CCs) have labored with some difficulty to demonstrate empirical evidence of effectiveness in preventing a wide range of adolescent problem behaviors. Training and technical assistance (TA) have been identified as important elements in promoting improved functioning of CCs. A reliable, valid, and inexpensive method to assess…
Descriptors: Prevention, Construct Validity, Risk, Questionnaires
Parsons, Michael H., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1980
In the first section of this collection of essays on part-time faculty development, Carol Eliason outlines the problems inherent in current staff development practices and a systems approach to their solution. Then, David Harris voices concerns and challenges from the college president's perspective. Richard Smith explains the benefits of…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Financial Support
Ooms, Theodora; Beck, Deborah – 1990
This report presents highlights of a seminar which focused on solutions emerging at the local and state level to keeping troubled families together. Comments by these panelists are summarized: Elizabeth Cole, a consultant to many family preservation projects; Kristine Nelson, a researcher on the social work faculty of the University of Iowa; Bill…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Services, Counseling Effectiveness, Family Counseling
Airasian, Peter W.; And Others – 1978
The justification of minimal competency programs relative to perceived educational problems, the focus on individual pupil certification and sanctioning, and the lack of clear resolution on many technical problems, give rise to a number of policy issues critical to minimal competency testing programs which are tied to graduation. Three program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Cost Estimates
MILLER, DONALD R. – 1967
THIS PAPER INVESTIGATES VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR SOLVING EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS--(1) THE SYSTEMS CONCEPT, (2) THE RELIABILITY OF THE ASSUMPTIONS ON WHICH THE SYSTEMS APPROACH IS BASED, (3) THE LIMITATIONS INHERENT IN THE SYSTEMS APPROACH, (4) THE HUMAN ELEMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SYSTEMS APPROACH, (5) THE WAYS THE…
Descriptors: Charts, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Human Resources
Havelock, Ronald G. – 1971
This work provides a framework for the design of programs to train change agents in the skills of helping and of resource utilization, and presents some alternative models of such training programs. The organization of the training guide is as follows: Part I is concerned with outlining the principal content areas that relate to the concept of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Conferences, Educational Change, Educational Programs
Kraft, Richard H. P., Ed. – 1968
This volume contains papers originally delivered at the First Annual Conference on the Economics of Education sponsored by the Educational Systems Development Center, held at Florida State University, December 15, 1967. The papers are organized under two broad headings: Planning education for economic and social development and strategies of human…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Planning
Dennis-Small, Lucretia; Washburn, Kerry – 1986
This two-year project demonstrated a model for preventing the removal of children from their homes, with the aim of reducing both the number of children entering foster care and the number of families recycled through the child protective services system. The project was a joint effort by the Texas Department of Human Services (DHS) Region 11…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Comparative Analysis, Costs
