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Hahn, Andrew; Lerman, Robert – 1983
This report presents representative findings from the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act's (YEDPA) experiments and evaluations since 1977, focusing largely on the programs' impacts on participants. The report begins with a review of YEDPA-sponsored research on the nature, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment. Chapter 2 deals…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Haigh, William E. – 1987
This 3-week summer project was designed to (1) identify and improve the teaching capabilities of under-prepared junior high school mathematics and science teachers and (2) acquaint college and junior high school teachers with current techniques in mathematics and science at the two different levels (college and junior high) and continue…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Computer Oriented Programs, Cooperation
GYSBERS, NORMAN C. – 1967
APPROXIMATELY 117 EDUCATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM OTHER AREAS PARTICIPATED IN A SEMINAR TO IMPROVE GUIDANCE SERVICES THROUGH IMPROVEMENT OF STATE SUPERVISORY SERVICES. MAJOR SPEECHES WERE--(1) "THE INFLUENCE OF THE STATE SUPERVISOR ON THE FUTURE OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE" BY K.B. HOYT, (2) "RECENT CONFERENCES ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND VOCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Business Responsibility, Career Development, Career Guidance
Jackson, K. David – 1992
The report details a federally-funded program at the University of Texas, Austin whose activities included: (1) an experimental summer intensive language institute to facilitate Brazilian Portuguese certification for nine certified secondary school teachers of Spanish; (2) writing and publication of a new textbook of Brazilian Portuguese for…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Conferences, Faculty Development, Higher Education
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1908
Chapter XVIII of volume 2 provides discussion and data on public and private normal schools. Subsequent chapters give discussion and data on secondary schools; manual and industrial training, including industrial schools for Indian children; commercial and business schools; nursing schools; schools for the colored race; reform schools; and schools…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Secondary Schools, Vocational Education
Schlack, Marilyn; And Others – 1993
The papers in this collection describe partnership programs and projects involving Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in Michigan. The first paper, "The Arcadia Commons Partnership: The Community College and Economic Redevelopment," by Marilyn Schlack, describes the Arcadia Commons, a business-education park in downtown Kalamazoo,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Development, Consortia
North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. – 1992
Twelve North Carolina colleges and universities received state funds to support 3-year pilot programs related to clinical teaching in teacher education. Descriptions of the 12 programs, collectively known as the Model Clinical Teaching Network, are given in this report. These pilot projects include one or more of the following features: use of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Cooperating Teachers
Cabrera, Eulalia; And Others – 1988
In its first year, the 1987 Bilingual Program for Eleventh and Twelfth Graders provided mostly over-age, limited-English-speaking students with an opportunity for more timely graduation through instruction in English as a second language (ESL) and content-area instruction in the summer. Eligibility requirements included limited English proficiency…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Bilingual Education Programs, Biology, Business Education
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Brown, Christopher – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
In this age of greater accountability, local school districts within the USA increasingly use summer school programs as an intervention service to provide students who have failed to meet classroom, district, or state performance requirements with the opportunity to "catch up." Although such programs attempt to provide varying types of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Attention Deficit Disorders, Summer Programs, Special Needs Students
DeBerg, Curtis L.; Thornton, Kelby – 1999
An innovative entrepreneurship education program was developed and delivered during summer 1998. The program was conceived by the youth program coordinator of the Butte County, California, Private Industry Council (PIC), who had been impressed by the results of a program during which the PIC hired three students from the California State…
Descriptors: Business Education, College School Cooperation, College Students, Computer Literacy
Carrejo, Denise Piñon – Online Submission, 2003
This report summarizes evaluation results for AISD's state-funded State Compensatory Education program activities during the 2002-2003 school year.
Descriptors: School Districts, State Programs, Compensatory Education, Program Evaluation
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for public four-year colleges and universities that participated in ACT's 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey. The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. Appended are: (1) Data for Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities; and (2) What Works in Student Retention: Instrument.…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, College Students
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American Youth Policy Forum, Washington, DC. – 1997
This compendium contains evaluation briefs on 49 youth programs that were assessed by the American Youth Policy Forum. The programs were selected because they demonstrate that careful application of the following principles can lead to powerful results for youth: adult support, structure, and expectations; creative forms of learning; combination…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Academies, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Richardson, Judith – 1996
The community/adult and continuing education programs and services provided by the Des Moines Department of Community/Adult and Continuing Education were subjected to context, input, process, and program evaluations. The following were among the findings: (1) for the 1996-97 school year, the department had a budget of $1.2 million and an average…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Agency Role
Grossman, Herbert – 1992
The report describes the San Jose State University (California) teacher education program to prepare teachers of multicultural special education in elementary and secondary schools. It begins by describing the program's components, all related to bilingual special education teacher training: the training program itself; teacher certification; an…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
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