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Download full textPlato, Kathleen C. – 1989
Chapter 2 of the Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments directs that at least 80% of funds targeted under the law be delivered to school districts, while up to 20% may be reserved for statewide use. In 1989, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Olympia (Washington) redirected this 20% to support a competitive…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Innovation, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Childs, Ruth Axman; Rudner, Lawrence M. – 1990
The results of the annual survey of state teacher testing programs in 1990 are summarized. State directors of teacher testing programs were contacted in the summer of 1990 and asked to update the data compiled in 1989 by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation. The results show that 46 states required teacher testing in 1990.…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1988
This document presents the Adult Literacy Plan for the state of Florida. Section 1 provides a rationale for the plan. Section 2 sets forth goals and objectives. The statutory intent is described in Section 3, which focuses on the Florida Model Literacy Program Act of 1987 (FMLPA). Section 4 presents a statement of the problem. It provides…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Delivery Systems
Simmons, Ivan V. – 1991
Vocational Trade-Industrial-Technical (VTIT) teachers in Indiana participated in self-planned summer workshops designed to enhance their human relations skills as well as their technical knowledge. Workshop objectives included identifying high priority needs and problems the teachers have in common and encouraging involvement from all levels of…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Inservice Teacher Education, Postsecondary Education, Program Effectiveness
White, Carole D. – 1989
The major objectives and benefits of the Advanced Placement Program (APP) are summarized, and data specific to Delaware are compared to national statistics about advanced placement (AP) courses in high schools. School participation in the APP is considered an indicator of academic success by educators and policy makers. The extent to which…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students, Comparative Testing
Montclair State Coll., Upper Montclair, NJ. – 1990
Policymakers and educators agree that technology education is crucial to the development of a technologically literate society that can compete successfully in the world of the 21st century. Technology education is the study of: the application of adaptive systems, including tools, capital, materials, processes, energy, information, and people;…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Industrial Arts
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Instruction. – 1989
These standards are provided to promote the achievement of excellence in Maryland's public school prekindergarten programs. To that end, this document delineates standards of quality and provides a list of indicators that concretely describe what a program will look like if the standards are being met. The standards and indicators address seven…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Quality, Family School Relationship
Brady, Elaine M.; Balfe, Kevin – 1987
A study examined local and state-level collaboration between the Job Training Partnership System (JTPA) and four other programs: the Employment Service, vocational education, welfare, and economic development. Methods included telephone interviews with 46 state managing agencies for JTPA, 205 service delivery area administrators, and 209 Private…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development, Employment Programs
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Adult Education and Literacy. – 1990
These profiles of Adult Education for the Homeless programs funded by the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act are compiled from final reports submitted to the Division of Adult Education and Literacy, U.S. Department of Education, by the 50 states and from site visits by division staff. Data are reported for varying lengths of time for the first year…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Florida State Council on Vocational Education, Tallahassee. – 1987
This report assesses the image of vocational education through a review of several studies and projects concerned with that image. In the first section of the report, the three most recent studies that target the image of vocational education from the national perspectives of manufacturers, state legislators, and employers are abstracted. Along…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Attitudes, Educational Improvement, Employer Attitudes
Sklar, Morton H. – 1987
Welfare reform is directed toward development of programs that focus on work. Of major consequence to this move toward welfare reform are misconceptions about welfare recipients. While some can work, fewer than 10 percent of all recipients would be subject to any work requirement, and while many remain on welfare for extended periods, one-half of…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Education, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Ruderman, Harry D., Ed. – 1987
Each year the New York State Mathematics League (NYSML) and the Atlantic Region Mathematics League (ARML) hold mathematics competitions for secondary school students. This document contains the questions used from 1973 to 1985, and the ARML questions used from 1976 to 1985. For each competition listed the book provides: (1) power questions; (2)…
Descriptors: Algebra, Competition, Geometry, Group Activities
Haenn, Joseph F.; And Others – 1983
Like the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I, the Education Consolidation Improvement Act Chapter 1 requires school districts to determine at least once every 3 years whether Title I achievement gains are sustained over a period of 12 months or more. A local education agency (LEA) has considerable flexibility in the approach it takes in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Educational Legislation
Dearborn Public Schools, MI. – 1982
A comparison of the results of grades 4, 7, and 10 of the Dearborn Public Schools and the state attainment on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) by skill areas and objectives is described. The contents include (1) Dearborn versus state MEAP attainment results, (2) comparison of MEAP results with previous MEAP results of same groups…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Instructional Improvement, Intermediate Grades, Item Analysis
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1986
This document comprises the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) 1986-1987 annual program and the FY 86 LSCA summary for the South Carolina State Library. The annual program includes fiscal information and project descriptions for the following LSCA projects: (1) Title I--Library Services, including Projects IA--General Administration,…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Cooperation, Library Expenditures, Library Facilities
