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US Environmental Protection Agency, 2007
This guide was produced to help schools and school districts reduce the amount of waste they generate It shows how to start a waste reduction program or expand an existing one. The booklet shows how such programs can benefit schools, communities, and the environment by reducing, reusing, and recycling waste. Each section--schools, school…
Descriptors: School Districts, Recycling, School Business Officials, Sanitation
Education Week, 1991
The articles of this special issue commemorate 25 years of the Chapter 1 compensatory education program. With the enactment of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 the Federal government became widely and directly involved in precollegiate education. By 1991, under the Hawkins Stafford Act of 1988, the initiative, renamed…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational History
Johnson, Leon, Ed. – 1989
This document reports on a study evaluating the practices of identification and recruitment of migrant students. Guided by a 14-state advisory council, data were collected by ethnographic research of practice in migrant recruitment and focus-group studies of migrant families. The document consists of five sections each written by a different…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Ethnography, Federal Programs
Pindus, Nancy M.; And Others – 1992
This paper identifies issues and needs related to services for migrant children based on a review of the literature and discussions with experts in the field. Background on migrant children includes definitions; demography; migrant data sources; and descriptions of federal migrant education, migrant health, and migrant Head Start programs. A…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Data Collection, Delivery Systems
Golden, Olivia – 1991
This executive summary crystallizes the main themes of a study that is intended to help policymakers, advocates, community members, and welfare administrators create a welfare system to do more for children and do it better. The study was prompted by the Family Support Act of 1988. The following programs that have been successful in providing…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Children, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Accountability and Assessment. – 1992
This paper describes: the development and implementation of Schoolwide Projects (SWPs) in the School District of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania); evaluation models permitted by Chapter 1 regulation and policy; ways these models were used in Philadelphia and results that were obtained; and approaches that are sensitive to the effects of SWPs. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Hayward, Becky Jon – 1992
This paper discusses the evaluation of 4 of the 12 project sites that are participating in a U.S. Department of Education demonstration program to implement dropout prevention or reentry models that include vocational education as the key intervention strategy. The evaluation study includes the following: (1) identification of factors that affect…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Educational Improvement
Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Center, Hampton, NH. Region A. – 1992
This publication reports on progress made regarding seven tasks of the Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Center (TAC) for Region A (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Chapter 1 is a federal program sponsoring remedial education projects nationwide. The TAC offers services…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Compensatory Education, Coordination, Disadvantaged Youth
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. National Security and International Affairs Div. – 1994
The National and Community Service Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-610), enacted in November 1990, authorized the establishment of a program for minority students to receive financial assistance grants in preparation and exchange for Peace Corps service. Although more than 3 years have passed since the enactment of the authorizing legislation, the…
Descriptors: Colleges, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Eligibility
St. Pierre, Robert; And Others – 1993
This evaluation report is the third in a series of reports that are part of a 4-year national effort designed to describe the types of Even Start projects that have been funded, the services provided, the collaboration efforts undertaken, and the obstacles to program implementation that have been encountered. The current report provides…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, At Risk Persons, Early Childhood Education, Family Literacy
Kleinert, Harold; And Others – 1993
The Personal Futures Planning Project created a person-centered planning model for developing and implementing individually designed transition services for 30 secondary-age youths with deaf-blindness in Kentucky. Project activities included: providing training and consultation in personal futures planning, providing consultation in planning and…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Deaf Blind, Education Work Relationship, Federal Programs
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1990
Asian and Arabic Mediated Enrichment Resource and Instructional Career Awareness (Project AMERICA) was evaluated at completion of its third year (1989-90) of funding under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Participating students received instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL), native language arts (NLA),…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Career Education, Chinese
Advanced Technology, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. – 1988
This document outlines requirements for evaluating schoolwide projects funded under Title I Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1975. The following school-level requirements must be met on a school by school basis: (1) demonstrate the aggregate achievement gains of all disadvantaged students in grades 2-12; (2) examine…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educationally Disadvantaged
Leach, James A.; Barnard, Wynette S. – 1983
To collect information related to seven research questions regarding cooperation/collaboration among employment training delivery systems, a three-step approach was used. This included a literature review, interviews with local representatives of employment training systems, and a questionnaire mailed to representatives of the seven major…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Coballes-Vega, Carmen; And Others – 1979
A survey instrument to evaluate the program's effectiveness was sent to project directors of 49 institutes of higher education (IHE's) that participated in the Title VII Bilingual Education Fellowship Program from 1975 to 1978. Data from the 44 completed survey instruments were gathered and tabulated in July and August 1978. Areas addressed were:…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Doctoral Programs, Dropout Rate, Employment Level
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