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Goodlad, John I. – Today's Education, 1980
The challenge of making schools more comprehensive and responsive to students' intellectual, social, vocational, and personal needs extends to the entire community. (JD)
Descriptors: Community Role, Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Design, Educational Quality
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Haller, Emil J.; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1990
Data from the High School and Beyond study were used to investigate the comprehensiveness of programs in mathematics, science, and foreign language in large and small high schools. Large schools offered more comprehensive programs than did smaller schools, but there was substantial variation in comprehensiveness at any school size. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehensive Programs, Enrollment, High Schools
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Lysaught, Jerome P.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1994
The institutional self-study required by a university hospital's reaccreditation process is explored, with a discussion of benefits and costs. A reaction by C. F. Waltz and A. Belcher reaffirms the value of reaccreditation studies and discusses ways of minimizing costs without compromising comprehensiveness and utility of results. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Comprehensive Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
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Wiley, David C.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1991
The Texas Comprehensive School Health (CSH) Initiative assessed the status of CSH programs in seven public school districts using a case study approach. Results indicated considerable support for CSH programs but little coordination of programs. The districts were overwhelmed with other health responsibilities, so CSH programing was not a…
Descriptors: Child Health, Comprehensive Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Promotion
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Paterson, Lindsay – British Educational Research Journal, 1997
Attempts to understand the implications for education of an apparent paradox of the welfare state: a new culture of education has developed involving both individual autonomy and continuing attachment to public provision of education to ensure that autonomy. Compares England and Scotland to illustrate the complexity of the political debate. (DSK)
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Compulsory Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gamoran, Adam – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1996
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the achievement growth of students in magnet schools, Catholic schools, and secular private schools was compared to that of students in public comprehensive schools during the first two years of high school. Some advantages of magnet schools and Catholic schools are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Catholic Schools, Comparative Analysis, Comprehensive Programs
Newstead, Barry; Howard, Don – Bridgespan Group, 2006
Chris Barbic, a Teach For America corps member, started Project Youth Engaged in Service (YES) in 1995. He wanted to offer his former elementary-school students an alternative to the low-performing middle schools they otherwise would attend. Since then Barbic has led a high-energy team of educators in refining a comprehensive approach to helping…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Development, Educational Change, Middle Schools
Bush, Joan – 1997
Title XI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 allows the Dallas (Texas) public schools to redirect up to 5% of each appropriation received through the Act for the purpose of providing a comprehensive approach to meeting the educational, health, social service, and other needs of…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Programs, Health Services
Melaville, Atelia I.; Blank, Martin J. – 1991
Real progress toward large-scale comprehensive service delivery to children and their families is possible only when community agencies move beyond cooperation to genuinely collaborative ventures at both the service delivery and system level. The following factors that affect the success of collaborative efforts were developed from an analysis of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Welfare, Comprehensive Programs, Cooperative Planning
Miedema, Rients; And Others – 1981
This description of a project in the Netherlands concentrates on the progress made by participating schools since 1974, inhibiting and success factors, and the outlook for the future. The MAVO project provides secondary students with training for administrative functions. One of the characteristics of the program is that it provides a three-year…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Persons, Edgar A. – 1980
Adult education in agriculture is not restricted to persons established in farming, but has the prospect of being applicable to the whole of the agricultural industry. However, adult education has primarily been for young and adult farmers. Since 1965, in both agriculture and all vocational programs, there has been a reduction in the proportion of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production
Kallos, Daniel; Lundgren, Ulf P. – 1976
In this presentation, the authors attempt to approach the field of curriculum theory, development, innovation, and planning from the perspective of the basic principles of pedagogics. The authors use Sweden's development of a comprehensive school system as a case study of curriculum planning and development. This case study serves as an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
Admiral Peary Area Vocational-Technical School, Ebensburg, PA. – 1975
The report covers the second year of a three-year project to develop a career education continuum for grades K-14 in participating Pennsylvania school districts. Emphasis was on dissemination procedures to schools for the major project components: curriculum infusion for grades 1-8, Singer Carrels exploratory component for grades 6-8, career…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Marvin, Michael D.; Ferderbar, Joseph – 1974
This report discusses the results of a five-year effort to develop a comprehensive planning process that would enable school districts to initiate and maintain a self-sustaining planning capability. In addition to examining the general principles and procedures of the comprehensive planning approach to school district planning, the author…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1971
This document presents Part Two (pages 433-672) of the joint hearings held May 25 and 26, 1971 before two subcommittees of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. The hearings were designed to ammend the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to provide for a comprehensive child development program in the department of Health, Education and Welfare…
Descriptors: Budgets, Child Development, Child Welfare, Community Role
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