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Schwartz, Cipora O. – 1982
In three chapters, this manual describes how a school board campaign should operate and presents an action plan for board candidates and their supporters. Chapter 1 discusses the candidate's role and duties. It covers the school board itself, qualifications for candidates, precampaign preparation, time required for a campaign, selection of a…
Descriptors: Board Candidates, Boards of Education, Committees, Elections
Dolly, John P.; And Others – 1981
The study described in this paper attempted to assist low achieving elementary school (grades 2-4) students in a black rural school district by providing free training to parents and by increasing the number of volunteers in the children's classrooms. Students scoring in the bottom quartile on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills were…
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Education, Low Achievement, Parent Participation
PDF pending restorationOffice of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1982
Parents can play a variety of roles in the life of a child care center. These roles are limited only by the time and interests of parents and the openness and creativity of the center staff. This guidebook, one of a series on the subject of military child care centers, discusses ways to effectively involve parents and other volunteers in the child…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Guidelines
Download full textAssael, Daniel, Ed.; And Others – Emphasis, 1982
Seven issues of the newsletter/journal from the Technical Assistance Development System (TADS) address a vareity of topics related to special education for young handicapped children. Among articles included are a description of a rural workshop sponsored by an affiliate of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP), electronics…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Federal Programs
PDF pending restorationBecker, Francoise M.; Zarit, Steven H. – 1976
While research usually emphasizes the decrements of older persons, increases in human relations skills may be among the observable gains of aging. The present study, conducted in the Counseling Center of the Andrus Gerontology Center, evaluates the potential of using older volunteers as peer counselors. Subjects were 11 persons from a larger pool…
Descriptors: Counseling, Empathy, Listening Skills, Mental Health
Gonder, Peggy Odell – 1977
This booklet discusses the importance of involving members of the community in public school programs and activities and presents brief profiles of current school programs and policies that are attempting to do so. The author examines in detail the kinds and extent of parent and community interaction with the schools and describes what different…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Matheson, Arnold E. – New Outlook Blind, 1969
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Recreation Programs, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Commission on Human Resources. – 1981
This document contains two papers commissioned by the Human Resources Commission of the National Research Council to explore the potential effects of military personnel requirements on the supply of scientists and engineers, and reaction to the papers from a one-day seminar of invited participants. The first paper, by Dr. Dael Wolfle, considers…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Demography, Employment Projections, Engineers
Williams, M. Jane – 1981
Designed for a nonprofit organization executive, this book suggests how to start and run an increasingly profitable program for attracting the kind of gifts that will be repeated year after year. Preliminary preparations, the launch and administration of a campaign, four ways to reach higher goals, and annual giving ideas from education, health…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Higher Education, Innovation, Letters (Correspondence)
Szuch, Larry; And Others – 1981
The report covers the replication and continuation efforts of Project UPSTART, a program in Washington, D.C. and southern Maryland, for severely retarded and multihandicapped infants and young children. The sequenced neurosensorimotor program (SNSP) provides the following services: a diagnostic educational prescriptive program; therapeutic…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Infants, Medical Services, Multiple Disabilities
Bradley, Maristeve – 1978
This module is one of a set prepared in conjunction with the Title I "Project to Train Volunteer Leaders to Conduct Consumer Education Courses." It is designed to be a basic text for use in making a one-hour presentation on personal money management. Topics include reasons for having a budget and guidelines for successful budgeting, elements of a…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Budgeting, Budgets, Consumer Economics
Voth, Donald E.; Bonner, William S. – 1978
Citizen participation may be defined as consisting of voluntary activities undertaken by persons in their roles as ordinary citizens, or amateurs, to influence public decisions or the actions of public officials. Citizen participation is the latest mechanism of a democratic people for dealing with "big government" and making it accountable.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Bureaucracy, Citizen Participation
1978
In an attempt to increase successful career education collaborative programming in elementary and secondary schools, representatives of several university counselor education programs planned and then implemented a training program for small teams. The ten teams chosen, all volunteers and consisting of business and government representatives and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Training
WELLS, JEAN A.; WOOL, MURIEL B. – 1966
IN A RESURVEY OF 1957 WOMEN COLLEGE GRADUATES, QUESTIONNAIRES RETURNED BY 84 PERCENT OF THE 5,846 CONTACTED IN 1964 PROVIDED INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERRELATED INFLUENCES ON COLLEGE WOMEN OF THEIR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION, POSTGRADUATE SPECIALIZATIONS, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, AND WORK CAREERS. ALMOST THREE-FOURTHS OF THE GRADUATES SURVEYED…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employed Women, Employment, Family Status
GOLDMAN, FREDA H. – 1965
IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT MUCH OF THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN CONTINUING HIGHER EDUCATION RELFECTS ATTEMPTS, OFTEN MADE IN VAIN, AT SELF-FULFILLMENT IN THE SPHERE OF PAID EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATORS OUGHT TO REASSESS THE WHOLE RANGE AND RATIONALE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR WOMEN. ANALYSIS OF THE BASIC ISSUE OF WOMEN AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cultural Activities, Educational Objectives, Employed Women
