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Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Vargas, Joel, Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed.; Miller, Marc S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Minding the Gap" argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, High Schools
Department of Defense Education Activity, 2007
This report presents a summary of postsecondary plans and scholarship monies of graduates of Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) high school seniors in SY06-07. Postsecondary plans represent the intentions of seniors the year after graduation; students indicate whether they are planning on attending a 4-year College/University,…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, High Schools, Scholarships, Postsecondary Education
Cornetto, Karen M.; Schmitt, Lisa N. T. – Online Submission, 2007
This report summarizes results of the Spring 2007 Austin Independent School District high school students' exit survey, with comparative results from previous years.
Descriptors: School Districts, High School Students, Student Surveys, Comparative Analysis
Crooks, Tony, Ed.; Crewes, Geoffrey, Ed. – 1995
A selection of papers presented at an international conference on the role of language in economic and social development includes: "Changing Paradigms: The Project Approach" (John McGovern); "Team Development of ELT Projects: A Case Study" (William M. Martin, Lynn P. Balabanis); "The Roles of Insiders and Outsiders in…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Citizenship Education, Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking
Sax, Linda J.; And Others – 1996
This report summarizes the highlights of a national survey, part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, which examined college faculty demographic and biographic information, how faculty members spend their time, how they interact with students, their preferred methods of teaching and examining students, their perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, Anxiety, Biographical Inventories, Church Related Colleges
Schlachter, Gail A. – 1996
This guide, which is intended for middle aged and older women who are interested in starting, resuming, or completing education and training, explains how and where to find financial aid. Chapter 1 discusses the importance of developing an overall financial aid search strategy and suggests procedures for identifying and pursuing possible financial…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Credits
Williams, Harold, Ed. – 1992
This conference provided a forum for presenting research findings to educators and other audiences interested in marketing education. The following papers were presented: "Turnover of Marketing Education Teacher-Coordinators in Secondary Programs" (Allen); "An Empirical Investigation of Marketing Education Completers"…
Descriptors: Accounting, Basic Skills, Beginning Teachers, Cognitive Style
Bobbitt, Sharon A.; And Others – 1992
The estimates in this publication are key statistics reported early in the 1992-93 school year. They include the number of students in membership, teachers, and high school graduates for public and private elementary and secondary schools, and total revenues and expenditures for the operation of public elementary and secondary schools. The public…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance
Campion, William J. – 1993
The planning and evaluation process at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) is based on the identification of demonstrable outcomes measures, referred to as indicators of excellence (IE's). The indicators were developed during a 4-year long, institution-wide effort in which every employee had the opportunity to comment on proposed indicators.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Skills, Budgets, College Planning
Endo, Russell, Ed.; And Others – 1990
A variety of issues in the education of Asian American and Pacific American immigrants and refugees are addressed in the following papers: "The Acquisition of English and Ethnic Language Attrition: Implications for Research" (Michael A. Power); "Language Difference and Language Disorder in Asian Language Populations: Assessment and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Asian Americans, College Graduates
Tudor, Dan, Ed. – 1993
This annual compilation of statistical information provides a history of the development of the University of Kentucky Community College System (UKCCS) and selected data on 1991-92 enrollments, instructional programs, financial support, and student characteristics. Section I focuses on enrollments, providing fall 1991 headcount data for each of…
Descriptors: Age, Budgets, College Credits, College Graduates
Fitzgerald, Gail E.; Nichols, Polly J.; Semrau, Louis P. – 1998
This paper describes an alternative delivery approach for training personnel in observation skills using interactive multimedia technology. The "Classroom Behavior Record (CBR) Observation Training Program," includes three videodiscs that contain video and audio scenes of children in classrooms/playgroups and instructional narrations.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Behavior, Classroom Observation Techniques
Schnorr, Donna; Painter, Diane D. – 1999
This paper presents a collaborative action research partnership model that involved participation by graduate school of education preservice students, school and university teachers, and administrators. An elementary teacher-research group investigated what would happen when fourth graders worked in teams to research and produce a multimedia…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Computer Assisted Instruction
Perna, Laura Walter – 1998
This study examined the extent to which the relative influence on college investment decisions of economic, academic, structural, social, and cultural capital varied by racial/ethnic group. Data from the third (1994) follow-up to the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 were used. The adjusted weighted sample included 11,933 individuals…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attendance Patterns, Black Students
1997
This document contains four papers from a symposium on university instruction in human resource development (HRD). "Comparison of Student Reactions in Traditional and Videoconferencing Courses in Training and Development " (Julie A. Furst-Bowe) finds few differences in student attitudes about the two types of courses. "The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Conventional Instruction
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