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Seppanen, Patricia S.; Weiss, Heather B. – 1988
This paper briefly defines parent involvement in education, outlines several factors that are fueling new state interest in programs to strengthen families, describes programmatic initiatives in several states, and examines some of the issues states have faced in their efforts to craft effective community-based programs that are responsive to…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Definitions, Educational Policy, Family Programs
Powell, Cathy – 1988
To increase parent involvement and meet the need for adult help in classrooms, a preschool director implemented a practicum in a church-owned, nondenominational preschool serving 250 children from an upper-middle-class community in the Northeast. The intervention offered a wide range of parent involvement activities, including the formation of a…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Parent Participation, Preschool Education, Private Schools
Massachusetts State Executive Office of Human Services, Boston. – 1984
The booklet presents guidelines for implementing Massachusetts Chapter 688, which provides for a 2-year transitional process to plan for habilitative services for severely disabled young adults who will lose their entitlement to special education upon graduation or reaching the age of 22. The law is intended to serve individuals who traditionally…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperation, Education Work Relationship, Program Development
Jones, Barbara, Ed. – 1984
The report examines services for the gifted in West Virginia and offers recommendations for improving those services. In chapter 1, "Study of Best Practices in Educating Gifted Children," Patricia Bruce Mitchell outlines findings from a literature and interview analysis regarding best practices in gifted education, including exemplary…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1977
The final technical report of the Great Lakes Regional Resource Center summarizes special education activities in five major areas: state program development, educational appraisal, educational programing, sharing resources, and project accountability and administration. Explained are project goals of enhancing development, demonstration,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children
Price, Aida; Sieger, Audrey – 1980
Beginning with an overview of problems springing from lack of coordination of federal, state, and local educational programs, this paper examines the current and proposed coordination of such programs across the nation and in New York State and New York City. It defines and makes a case for comprehensive school planning as a planning process…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Elementary Secondary Education
California Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Sacramento. – 1979
This is the summary report of a study conducted to measure the impact of the cutbacks necessitated by Proposition 13 on the availability and quality of vocational education in California, recommend reforms in the priority-setting process for vocational education given reduced levels of support, and recommend changes in regulations and/or…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Program Budgeting, Program Development, Program Evaluation
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1978
This catalog, the fourth edition issued by the U.S. Office of Education, provides current information on the state facilitator projects presently operating in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. It is designed especially for use by state facilitators and developer/demonstrators in the National Diffusion…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Directories, Elementary Secondary Education, Needs Assessment
Chafel, James; Charney, Jill – 1980
To meet the needs of adolescents on adult wards of the Massachusetts State Hospitals and inpatient community mental health centers, and to carry out the educational mandates of Chapter 766 and P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act), the State Hospital Education Programs (SHEP) system was developed. SHEP adheres to three basic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Delivery Systems, Emotional Disturbances
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1979
This report describes a one-year project to develop a comprehensive dissemination plan that would (1) provide a network within the state of Washington for two-way communication, (2) utilize the linkage potential of the 12 educational service districts, (3) incorporate existing instructional and informational resources, (4) develop training…
Descriptors: Communications, Educational Planning, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Hall, Harry O.; And Others – 1979
Described is a vocational education model designed to increase cooperative effort for the improvement of vocational personnel. The introductory section discusses the need for a systematic approach to vocational personnel development in Florida, presents the goals of the system, and briefly summarizes the salient features of each component of the…
Descriptors: Coordination, Inservice Education, Models, Professional Development
CONGER, GEORGE R. – 1968
IN 1967, THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE APPOINTED A SELECT COUNCIL ON POST-HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION TO PREPARE A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE STATE'S OFFERINGS AT THIS LEVEL. FORMER CONSULTANTS WHO HAD STUDIED THE FLORIDA EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM PARTICIPATED IN A JANUARY 1968 CONFERENCE. REPORTS OF THE DISCUSSION GROUPS WERE SUMMARIZED--(1) HUMAN RESOURCES, (2)…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Planning, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
Weischadle, David E. – 1975
Reported is the development of the Connecticut state plan to assess the needs of the developmentally disabled and establish service priorities. An overview of the planning system includes information on planning processes and the model components including needs assessment, priority setting, program development and selection, program approval, and…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation
Colmey, James W. – 1975
State education agencies are organizing and developing programs that increasingly recognize the difference between the following types of state education productivity systems: (1) distributing money for productivity in education to be defined and implemented at the local level within "state minimum standards" regulated by the state…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Productivity, Program Development
Tennessee Univ., Knoxville. State Agency for Title I. – 1970
This document enumerates and discusses needs for community service and continuing education programs in the state of Tennessee. Its contents are based on the Statewide Report drawn up by the State Agency for Title I in Tennessee, and on responses to 800 questionnaires mailed to recipients of the Report requesting the identification of other…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Community Services, Extension Education, Federal Aid
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