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Download full textHess, Doug; Tingling-Clemmons, Michele – 2000
The federal government's key summer nutrition programs for low-income children are the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). Administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the SFSP is an entitlement program funding public and private non-profit organizations to serve nutritious meals…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Federal Programs, Low Income Groups, Lunch Programs
ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 2001
The CRitical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheet describes resources related to summer bridge programs. As state and federal policies increase access to higher education, many institutions have experimented with summer bridge programs to aid new populations in the transition from high school to college. This CRIB Sheet provides an overview of bridge…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Students, Disabilities, Educational Research
Peer reviewedOlson, Jack R. – British Journal of Disorders of Communication, 1971
Descriptors: Deafness, Handicapped Children, Outdoor Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedPolansky, Daniel W. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1979
The Vocational Exploration Program was an 8 week summer employment and education program which gave 14 deaf students an opportunity to study the attitudes of employers and students in work situations and some ideas on how to better prepare for jobs in the labor market. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Deafness, Employer Attitudes, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedWright, Donna G.; Cunningham, Claude H. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1979
The three-week elementary school program in Houston, Texas, offered seminars, student selected interest activities, and group activities in which children planned and constructed a part of a future world and were thus exposed to problem solving, decision making, and research activities. (DLS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Elementary Education
Gaillard, Lee – Independent School, 1979
Describes a summer reading program that requires each high school student to read one carefully chosen background work, not a textbook, for each course to be taken in the fall. Sample titles in mathematics, science, and art are provided. (SJL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Enrichment, High Schools, Independent Reading
Peer reviewedKanigel, Robert – Change, 1979
Alumni colleges, sometimes called learning vacations or vacation colleges, offer a classroom experience built around an intellectual theme with trips, workshops, sightseeing, and cultural excursions, and are packaged to include room and board. Examples of programs offered at various colleges are described. (JMD)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Alumni, Alumni Education
Eddy, Peter A. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1977
Describes a summer institute for 56 French, German and Spanish teachers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a prototype.
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Language Instruction
Adams, Nicole – Winds of Change, 2003
A 4-week summer institute committed to helping talented minorities pursue graduate degrees in education immerses participants in a graduate-level curriculum of critical and cultural theory, increases their language and analytical skills, and prepares them for and supports them through the graduate school application process. In 10 years, the…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, College Students, Consortia, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedDunlap, S. Kay; Bruneau, Beverly J. – Reading Horizons, 1992
Summarizes the reflections of the developers of the Literacy Outreach Program (LOP) about how they might better support at-risk students' learning through attempting to build bridges between the home and the program. Notes the importance of inviting (instead of mandating) parents to participate, as well as modeling for parents appropriate…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, High Risk Students, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedSchor, Sandra – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Describes an experimental six-week summer intensive course in basic writing in which the instructor assumes the identity of "Ms. Mystery" and exchanges weekly letters with each of the students. Provides excerpts as well as analysis of these letters and argues the efficacy of letter writing as a pedagogic tool. (KEH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Higher Education, Letters (Correspondence)
Direct linkCroft, Laurie – Understanding Our Gifted, 2004
This article features the Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, and describes how the University of Iowa College of Education offers teacher education through the Belin-Blank dynamic model of professional development. As a part of the University of Iowa College of Education, the…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Academically Gifted, Talent, Professional Development
American Association of Community Colleges, Washington, DC. National Council of Instructional Administrators. – 1994
Focusing on strategies for increasing student success in the community college, this monograph profiles winners of the National Council of Instructional Administrators (NCIA) exemplary program competition for 1994. First, background information on the competition is provided, indicating that it considers programs in three categories:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Peterson's Guides, Inc., Princeton, NJ. – 1995
This guide provides descriptions of over 900 summer academic and language study-abroad programs in 80 countries that range from 1-week language study courses to full-summer university programs. An introductory section provides general information on study abroad programs and the use of the guide. The bulk of the guide consists of individual…
Descriptors: Colleges, Eligibility, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
PDF pending restorationState Univ. of New York, Cortland. Coll. at Cortland. – 1992
This directory, compiled by the Summer Program Academic Resources Coordination Center (SPARCC) in Loudonville, New York, describes 19 summer programs that demonstrate a variety of delivery systems used to meet the educational and social needs of migrant students. SPARCC was a migrant education grant that developed and helped implement model summer…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Migrant Education, Migrant Programs
