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Maloney, Catherine; Sheehan, Daniel; Whipple, Allyson – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2008
Recognizing the challenges rural districts face in providing broad curricular offerings and supplemental educational services to students, in 2007, the 80th Texas Legislature authorized the creation of a pilot program designed to provide technology-based supplemental educational services to rural school districts that show an overall academic need…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Online Courses, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Missouri Department of Higher Education, 2008
The Coordinating Board for Higher Education and the Department of Higher Education are pleased to present this Annual Report of accomplishments, benchmarks and statistics related to Missouri higher learning for fiscal year 2008. Chief among this year's accomplishments is the coordinated plan, "Imperatives for Change: Building a Higher…
Descriptors: Economics, Articulation (Education), Transfer Policy, Educational Cooperation
Morris, Don; Romanik, Dale – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2008
The "High School Feedback Report" prepared by the State of Florida's Department of Education provides pre-and-post-graduation data for public high school graduates throughout Florida. These data were used for this present report which contains individual data reports for all M-DCPS regular high schools and charter high schools graduating…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Vocational Schools, Feedback (Response), High School Graduates
Goldman, Susan R., Ed.; Trueba, Henry T., Ed. – 1987
A collection of articles on English-as-a-Second-Language literacy and literacy education include: "Contextual Issues in the Study of Second Language Literacy" (Susan R. Goldman); "Mexican Adult Literacy: New Directions for Immigrants" (Concha Delgado-Gaitan); "Factors Affecting Development of Second Language Literacy" (Richard Duran); "Reading in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Age Differences, Bilingualism
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1994
This volume on pragmatics and language learning includes the following: "'Cultural Scripts': A Semantic Approach to Cultural Analysis and Cross-Cultural Communication" (Anna Wierzbicka); "Issues in Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Context" (Ayo Bamgbose); "Cross-Cultural Speech Act Research and the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Counseling
Strebler, Marie; And Others – 1997
The extent to which skill and competency-based systems used by work organizations in the United Kingdom may contribute to maintenance of the pay gap between men and women was examined through a review of the following: pertinent literature from the United Kingdom and United States; 15 published case studies; current Institute for Employment…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Urven, Lance E.; Yin, L. Roger; Bak, John D. – 1998
In fall 1997, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UWW) provided Science and Technology in Society, a university general studies science literacy course, to advanced placement high school students at three local high schools, using a combination of live video presentations and World Wide Web (WWW) courseware. A total of 26 high school students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Audiovisual Communications, College Students
Douglas, Dan, Ed.; Chapelle, Carol, Ed. – 1993
Papers from the conference on language testing include: "Foundations and Directions for a New Decade of Language Testing" (Carol Chapelle, Dan Douglas); "A Comparison of the Abilities Measured by the Cambridge and Educational Testing Service EFL Test Batteries" (Lyle F. Bachman, Fred Davidson, John Foulkes); "Judgments in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Trends
Berube, Barney; And Others – 1990
Responses to over 100 of the most frequently-asked questions about the education of language-minority students are presented for Maine school personnel. The book has 12 sections. The first lists and defines common acronyms, and the second addresses various aspects of student evaluation, including: identification of limited-English-proficient (LEP)…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Involvement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Resources
Alabama Univ., University. – 1984
These proceedings contain eight presentations that report research in the area of marketing and distributive education: "An Analysis of Private-Sector Training and Development for Marketing and Service Related Industries" (Stewart Husted); "Microcomputers: Updating the Teaching of Merchandising in the Virginia Tech Teacher Education…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Articulation (Education)
Russell, Russ, Ed.; Neale, Michael, Ed. – 1983
A party of vocational educators from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to observe current experiments with the first year of apprenticeship training or, as it is called in Germany, the Berufsgrundbildungsjahr (BGJ). During its study, the visiting party focused its attention on the objectives, design,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Apprenticeships, Change Strategies
Johnson, Hugh – 1982
A vocational education administrator from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to observe the education and training of young handicapped adults at 14 sites throughout the country. The focus of his investigation was on vocational counseling and vocational education and training for handicapped and disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Course Content
Capitol Publications, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1982
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), a bill designed to replace the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), enlarges the role of state governments and private industry in federal job training programs, imposes sanctions based on performance standards, limits stipends and supportive services, creates a new program of retraining for…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Business, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs
Reshad, Rosalind S. – 1977
One of six volumes summarizing through narrative and statistical tables data collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in its 1974 survey, this volume, "United States Summary," details nationwide statistics on the employment status of minorities and women. Data include forty-six state governments and virtually all local…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Cort, H. Russell, Jr.; Peskowitz, Nancy – 1977
The document summarizes a two-year longitudinal evaluative study of the elementary school social studies curriculum, "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS), which was compared with other social studies programs. The aims of the study were to examine what MACOS students seemed to learn, what they retained, and how what was learned was different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anthropology, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis
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