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Marsh, David D.; Berman, Paul – 1984
This paper delineates the purposes of a symposium that was based on a major study of the California School Improvement Program (SIP). The problem of increasing the capacity of schools to implement reform efforts is conceptualized. To explore this issue, a conceptual framework was developed, based on the case study and survey data from the first…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
National Advisory Council on Adult Education, Washington, DC. – 1987
This annual report of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education highlights the activities undertaken by the Council during Fiscal Year 1987. These activities included the following: (1) co-sponsorship with the University of Pennsylvania of a symposium, "Towards Defining Literacy" (an overview of the work of the symposium is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Annual Reports
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1993
The directors of adult education from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories met to discuss implementation of the National Literacy Act and Adult Education Act (AEA) and to begin the process of developing recommendations regarding reauthorization of AEA in 1995. The forum discussions centered around the following aspects of…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Office of Career Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
This report describes the fiscal year 1980 appropriations for implementing the second year of activities under the Career Education Incentive Act. Summarized first is that aspect of the program involving a series of miniconferences with representatives from community-based organizations focusing on minority persons in order to identify and compile…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Organizations, Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education
Baskind, Anita – 1981
A campaign was undertaken to disseminate and distribute the self-contained sex-equity kit for secondary school personnel developed in fiscal 1979 as part of Project SEISMIC (Sex Equity in Schools; Modules in Careers). (The developed kit, which consists of a staff development program, a set of curriculum lessons, and a community outreach manual to…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Programs, Conferences, Information Dissemination
Iowa State Career Education Advisory Council, Des Moines. – 1976
Focusing on the views and opinions of Iowa's young adults on the status of their career education, this report synthesizes the results of a one-day public hearing (working conference) in which eighty-seven high school, community college, and university students from across the state were asked to write their observations and recommendations to the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance, Citizenship Responsibility
Klitzke, Elizabeth – 1983
A project was undertaken to redefine the role of vocational, technical, and adult education (VTAE) in economic development in Wisconsin. Included among the objectives of the project were the following: to produce a statewide plan for economic development identifying new linkages among business, industry, labor, and the VTAE system; to develop…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Conferences, Data Collection, Delivery Systems