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Bragstad, M. Bernice – 1971
The primary function of the reading consultant is to work with teachers in effecting change in attitude, method, and curriculum so that all students move toward their full potential in learning. To accomplish this function, the consultant can assist teachers in several ways. First, he can help teachers conceive of reading as a thinking process…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Content Area Reading, Corrective Reading, Reading Consultants
Millard, Richard M. – 1972
This speech emphasizes the thesis that the major function of education should be to prepare students for a vocation. Some implications for community colleges are: (1) the need for comprehensiveness, including communication and cooperation with high schools and 4-year colleges; (2) the need for statewide planning, clear identification of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, College Role, Comprehensive Programs
Petersen, Judy – 2002
When the State of Utah implemented a comprehensive guidance program, it began with a state-sponsored training of school guidance teams. Successfully identifying and displacing non-guidance activities (NGAs) in the comprehensive guidance program was a complicated process and was dependent upon communication and building positive relationships with…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Guidance, Comprehensive Programs, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Wu, Thomas Tain Fung; Tseng, Hsin Jung – Online Submission, 2005
A fundamental ideal of our democratic republic is that every person has some way through which she/he can participate in decisions which directly affect her/him. To some extent, most teachers are able to recognize this ideal in their private lives. It seems logical that this realization would also carry over and prevail in an individual's working…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Participative Decision Making, Teacher Participation, High Schools

Whittaker, David J. – Comparative Education, 1983
Overviews Finnish schools before 1970 and highlights subsequent reforms. Groups reform problems under four headings: conceptual, attitudinal, administrative, and geographical. (BRR)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Comparative Education, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change

Randolph, Linda – Social Policy, 1994
The report by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, "Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children," presents a comprehensive strategy for child well-being. Parent education and universal health coverage are but two aspects of an approach that considers the needs of all families. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Health, Childhood Needs, Children, Comprehensive Programs
Setran, David P. – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
In the early twentieth century, many American educators pinned their hopes for a revitalized nation on the character education of "youth," especially adolescent boys. Although the emphasis on student morality was far from novel--nineteenth-century common and secondary schools operated as bastions of Protestant republican virtue--new perceptions of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Democracy, Values Education, High School Students
Kennelly, Louise, Ed.; Monrad, Maggie, Ed. – National High School Center, 2007
The transition from middle school to high school represents a significant event in the lives of adolescents, one that necessitates support from and collaboration among teachers, parents, counselors, and administrators at both educational levels. Successful transitions place particular emphasis on ninth-grade initiatives and can create one of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade 9, Transitional Programs, Student Attrition
Aguilar, Cynthia Mata; Morocco, Catherine Cobb; Parker, Caroline E.; Zigmond, Naomi – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
Middletown High School is a comprehensive high school with 1,970 students, located in the environs of Washington, DC. It is distinguished by an open enrollment policy for all courses; a strong emphasis on inclusion of students with learning disabilities (LD) in general education classrooms; block scheduling that allows for more in-depth and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs
Burt, Martha R.; And Others – 1992
Programs targeting at-risk young adolescents, aged 10 to 15 years, were studied through a literature review and examination of issues related to evaluating programs for at-risk youth, and site visits to 9 programs at 6 locations. Chapter 1 introduces the study and its objectives, and chapter 2 reviews the literature on youth at risk. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Comprehensive Programs, Delivery Systems, Early Adolescents
Finger, John A. – 1991
This fact sheet begins with an overview of family support programs, which includes a discussion of the premises of family support programs and a list of typical program components. The remainder of the fact sheet focuses on one approach to family support, comprehensive and collaborative (C&C) services. The fact sheet underscores the need for…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Comprehensive Programs, Early Childhood Education
Little, Judith Warren – 1992
This publication analyzes ways in which vocational teachers construct the content and purpose of vocational studies in comprehensive high schools. Data were gathered during a 3-year field study conducted in 5 comprehensive high schools. Findings suggest: (1) schools and teachers accommodate to an "academics first" policy, thereby…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Bound Students, Comprehensive Programs, High Schools
Richmond Unified School District, CA. – 1990
The Richmond (California) Unified School District's System for Choice allows parents and students to select from a variety of programs designed to satisfy diverse interests and needs. This publication describes offerings at De Anza High School, a Paideia school. De Anza is the only high school in the district that offers Classical Studies, a…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Advanced Courses, Articulation (Education), College Preparation
Jones, Sarah E. – 1990
New programs taking a comprehensive approach to disadvantaged young men in urban areas have met with some success. This paper attempts to define the issues that will influence the development of comprehensive programs and examines the qualities that have made them a promising alternative for the future. Issues that shape the lives of youth include…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comprehensive Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Intervention
Highline Public Schools, Seattle, WA. – 1976
This third and final year-end report of the Highline, Washington, K-12 Career Alternatives Model project contains individual reports of each of the six major program components and the two support components. Each includes program description, conclusions, and recommendations. The six program components are examined in light of the project goals…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration