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Download full textGencer, Arin – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2014
Nearly half of the nation's families with young children struggle to make ends meet. A new KIDS COUNT policy report makes the case for creating opportunity for families by addressing the needs of parents and their children simultaneously. "Creating Opportunity for Families: A Two-Generation Approach" describes a new approach to reducing…
Descriptors: Poverty Programs, Family Programs, Early Childhood Education, Program Descriptions
Guttman, Cynthia – 1993
The 900 Schools Programme, adopted in March 1990, was designed to improve the quality of education in Chile's most impoverished public primary schools through "positive discrimination," the channeling of additional resources to the 969 schools that initially took part in the project. The 900 Schools Programme has sought to: (1) improve…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Pierce, Steven D. – Grassroots Development, 1995
The Fundacion Social, a grassroots organization in Colombia, uses profits from its 14 companies to fund community self-help initiatives aimed at eliminating poverty. Social programs focus on community integration, microbusinesses, recycling, education, and communication. The organization seeks to eliminate structural poverty and is currently…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning
Committee on Administration of Training Programs, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report to the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is based on the research findings of a private research contractor, Greenleigh Associates (See VT 005 948 and VT 005 949), site visits, and interviews with persons connected with about 30 federally supported job training programs. The 30 programs are of two types:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships
Greenleigh Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1968
Part One of this report summarizes the detailed data and findings of Part Two (VT 005 949). A thoroughly documented analysis of federally supported job training programs in terms of their scope, interrelationships, and administration (including inter- and intra-agency coordination) led to 25 recommendations, including: (1) Consolidation of program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships
Greenleigh Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1968
Part I (VT 005 948) of the report to the Committee on Administration of Training Programs contains summaries of the findings and recommendations based on the analysis of data presented in this volume. Answers to two basic questions were sought: (1) To what extent is there waste, duplication, and inefficiency in administering federally supported…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships
