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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. General Government Div. – 1990
The Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) was conducted in Washington, D.C. from fiscal year 1984 through fiscal year 1986 to relieve overcrowded prison conditions by reducing the recidivism rate. Objectives of the project included hiring additional prison staff to provide security and increase prisoner processing, expanding the education program, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Programs, Correctional Education, Employment Programs
Fountaine, Charles A.; And Others – 1988
A study of the education program approval process involving the Veterans Administration (VA) and the State Approving Agencies (SAAs) had the following objectives: to describe the present education program approval process; to determine time and costs associated with the education program approval process; to describe the approval process at…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Adults, Education Work Relationship
Berney, Tomi D.; Lista, Carlos A. – 1990
Project CABE (Content Area Bilingual Education) offered instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) and Native Language Arts (NLA) to 823 limited English proficient Spanish-Speaking students in grades 1 through 9 in 34 schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens (New York). All students were two or more years below level in mathematics and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Federal Programs, Limited English Speaking
Beyond the Model: An Approach to Negotiating JTPA Performance Standards. Technical Assistance Guide.
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1986
The purpose of this guide is to provide state and local Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program administrators with an approach to developing meaningful and relevant negotiated performance standards that will serve as a management and evaluation tool. The guide is organized in four chapters. Chapter I provides background information on the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1985
The status of performance standards used in the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Title II-A and Title III programs was assessed in April and May 1985. Survey responses were received from 49 states. Forty states reported plans to use the Employment and Training Administration adjustment methodology to establish local performance standards. Of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Glenn, Charles – 1987
In order to improve desegregation of the elementary schools, and the low achievement level of elementary schools with high concentrations of poor and minority students, the Massachusetts Board of Education placed a coordinated approach to improving urban schools first among its objectives. The following educational objectives were set for each…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Quality, Educationally Disadvantaged
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1988
The 1987-88 school year was the ninth year that students in the State Bilingual and Migrant programs were assessed in reading and mathematics using a norm referenced test. This is the second year that the new California Achievement Test (CAT) Form E, normed in the Spring of 1985, has been used for program evaluation purposes. The locally adopted…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Johns, Jennifer S.; Panofsky, Carolyn – 1987
The evaluation of the Albuquerque Public Schools' 1985-86 Homestart Program, funded by Chapter 1 of the Evaluation Consolidation Improvement Act, employed surveys and interviews to address the impact of the programs on the home environment and on the child's experience in school. Data were gathered from Chapter 1 Cognitive Language Development…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment
Wehner, Margaret – 1988
The final evaluation of Columbus, Ohio's 2-year bilingual education program for limited-English-speaking Indochinese children in grades 6-12 is presented. The program provided intensive instruction in English as a second language (ESL) and native language assistance in content area subjects. Students were pre- and post-tested to determine program…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Federal Programs
Travers, Jeffrey, Ed.; and Others – 1981
This report, devoted to the ethnographic study component of the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP) evaluation, consists of three major sections. The first section outlines the rationale for employing ethnographic research in evaluating the effects and effectiveness of CFRP and describes study methodology, including examinations of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education
Malmberg, Steven R.; And Others – 1983
The Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) Area Public Schools' Compensatory Education Division undertook a 2-year process evaluation of the effectiveness of an early intervention strategy for low reading readiness kindergarten children enrolled in Title I programs. The first year of the evaluation sought to determine whether children exposed to this…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Federal Programs, Formative Evaluation, Intervention
Baltimore City Public Schools, MD. – 1982
Evaluation results of 1981 compensatory education programs for first through sixth graders in Baltimore, Maryland public and private schools are presented in this report. The program provided compensatory reading, mathematics, and language instruction for educationally disadvantaged students, and made available supportive guidance and health…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Studdiford, Abigail – 1982
Based on information in Department of Education files and further comments from former project directors, this historical review of projects funded from fiscal years 1978 to 1981 under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act (HEA II-C) of 1965, as amended in 1976, looks at projects in collection development, preservation and conservation of major…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Charts, Federal Programs
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1982
This summary evaluation report is designed to (1) give an indication of how Oklahoma achieves the goals of Federal programs; (2) increase understanding of various Federal programs; and (3) show the degree of achievement of the goals of the State-Federal Programs Division. The following programs are described: Adult Basic Education; Arts in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Art Education, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education
Comerford, James P.; Carlson, Margaret – 1985
This paper describes the approach taken by the Office of Compensatory Education of the Michigan Department of Education to provide microcomputer training to Chapter 1 administrators. It reports on the two objectives of the study to evaluate the effects of the training program: (1) to assess the short term effects of teaching administrators to use…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Computer Software, Data Processing
