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Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1981
Presented by the Texas Education Agency, this guide describes 75 validated programs approved for replication by the Demonstration Programs for School Improvement (DPSI) statewide steering committee for 1981-83. Administered by the Division of Dissemination, the network enables public and private school educators to visit, study, and adopt proven…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Career Education, Community Education, Curriculum Development
Johnson, John A. – 1981
A study examined the question of whether there is a connection between program characteristics and desirable program outcomes (student satisfaction, placement, and job performance ratings). A program evaluation questionnaire, containing over 300 individual items on such program characteristics as teacher certification and experience, instructional…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Relations, Counseling Services, Criteria
COCKBURN, PATRICIA; RAYMOND, YVONNE R. – 1967
TO MEASURE THE EMPLOYMENT POTENTIAL OF CANADIAN WOMEN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES, TO INTEREST GOVERNMENT IN RETRAINING PROFESSIONAL WOMEN, AND TO ASSESS THE INTEREST OF WOMEN IN CONTINUING THEIR UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, A MAIL SURVEY WAS MADE OF 10,000 MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, 500 NON-MEMBER GRADUATES, AND 850 FRENCH-SPEAKING…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Career Choice, Child Care, College Credits
Romano, Joan L.; Garfield, Joan B. – 1980
An end-of-year evaluation of the 1979-80 University of Minnesota's General College (GC) Pilot Education Program (PEP) for academically underprepared minority group students is presented. The results show that compared to other GC students, the PEP students came to the college with weaker academic skills, and had different personal characteristics.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Batsche, Catherine, Ed. – 1979
This Compendium is a manual of information related to the vocational education of handicapped and disadvantaged students. Section 1, Article Series, reprints fourteen articles published in professional journals. Topics include vocational education's role in career education for handicapped students, personnel development, cooperation of special…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Counseling, Career Education, Classroom Techniques
Graham, Janet Roth – 1980
The Bilingual Adult Basic Education Project provided bilingual life skills instruction, counseling, and informational services to approximately 150 non-English-dominant adults across Pennsylvania by means of contracts to local education agencies. Students were pre- and post-tested in English and/or their native language to measure their growth in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Bilingual Education, Cambodian, Career Education
Hayman, Diana, Ed. – 1980
Descriptions of the 104 projects supported by The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education under its 1980-1981 Comprehensive Program are presented, as are the 1979-80 projects entitled Special Focus and National Project IV and the Comprehensive Program Final Year Dissemination Grants. Projects funded by the Fund, established by the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Career Planning, College Curriculum, Community Involvement
Vail, Paul – 1978
A project was conducted to develop, test, and implement a comprehensive program for Georgia school systems, grades K-14. The target population included regular students, students with special needs, out-of-school youth, and adults experiencing career problems. Project objectives were to develop a K-14 guidance model, develop a state/local…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Hartz, John D., Ed.; And Others – 1977
Designed to be used by university instructional staff in developing/inaugurating a career development course or program for preservice training, this guide includes background materials and other information appropriate for use in preservice preparation of teachers and counselors at either the undergraduate or graduate levels. The materials are…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC. – 1974
This report and its appendixes are the products of a 50-state study of current legal standards for public elementary and secondary education and represent a summary and comparative analysis of the law as it exists in the states today. State education policy-makers--state legislators and staff of legislative reference services, department of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Adult Education, Attendance Officers
Callahan, Jim; McLaughlin, Brenda – 2002
This guide presents information and materials to help youth programs manage program intake, design an individual service strategy (ISS) as mandated in the Workforce Investment Act, and manage case files. The materials are based on information obtained from staff working in seven successful youth workforce investment programs in Maryland,…
Descriptors: Case Records, Case Studies, Caseworker Approach, Counseling Techniques
Sherman, Renee; Voight, Janet; Tibbetts, John; Dobbins, Dionne; Evans, Arthur; Weidler, Danielle – 2000
This document provides guidelines for designing mentoring programs to facilitate the professional development of adult basic education (ABE) and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) instructors. Chapter 1 discusses the rationale behind mentoring in ABE programs. Special attention is paid to the following topics: how mentoring fits with adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Beginning Teacher Induction
Kaufman, Phillip; Bradby, Denise; Teitelbaum, Peter – 2000
To raise vocational completers' academic achievement through school reform, the High Schools That Work (HSTW) network of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) promotes 10 key practices for raising academic achievement. The impact of these key practices was examined in a study of how 424 schools adopted them in the following six clusters:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adoption (Ideas)
World Bank, Washington, DC. Human Development Network. – 2003
This report is an attempt to layout an analytical framework for understanding the challenges of developing a lifelong learning system in developing countries. Chapter 1, "The Knowledge Economy and the Changing Needs of the Labor Market" focuses on the role of education and training in helping build an educated and skilled populace to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Benchmarking, Career Counseling
Indiana Youth Inst., Indianapolis. – 2002
Indiana's youth workers are highly motivated, well-educated, experienced, and satisfied with their jobs. They cite these three top challenges of their jobs: funds, family support, and sufficient staff to share time-consuming duties. Researchers cite these key components to develop first-rate programs that meet youth needs: low staff-student ratio,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Counseling, Employee Attitudes
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