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Download full textBrown, Jane A. – 1992
This document contains the final progress report on a tech prep implementation project and the Work Force Challenge 2000 Report developed during the project. The final report lists these major accomplishments: approximately 1,500 educators in grades K-12 were provided information concerning future global issues in the work force and the effects in…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Business Cycles, Community Colleges, Futures (of Society)
Dickinson, Katherine P.; Soukamneuth, Sengsouvanh; Yu, Hanh Cao; Kimball, Mary; D'Amico, Ronald; Perry, Rebecca; Kingsley, Christopher; Curan, Susan P. – 1998
This guide is intended for Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program service delivery areas (SDAs) and educators involved in providing educational services in the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program (SYETP). It presents strategies for delivering high-quality instruction that promotes active learning, skill transfer, and skill durability…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Caseworker Approach
Young, Dale A. – 1992
In 1979, Stark Technical College (STC) in Canton, Ohio, launched the Project for Academic Excellence (PAX) with the overall objective of identifying minority elementary and junior high school students of at least average ability and motivating them to prepare for higher education. During the academic year, PAX operates two 10-week Saturday School…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Students, College Preparation, College School Cooperation
Epstein, Joyce L.; Herrick, Susan C. – 1991
In the summer of 1989, Summer Home Learning Packets in mathematics and language arts were distributed to seventh and eighth graders at Calverton Middle School (Maryland). The packets contained review exercises for students to complete with the help of their parents. In the first of the two studies reported in this document, "Reactions of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family School Relationship, Grade 7, Grade 8
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1993
A family literacy demonstration project was conducted to offer family literacy classes in three public schools in Philadelphia. Instruction was offered for 2.5 hours per day 4 days per week for parents of kindergartners and first graders from January to June and for parents and children together in July. The project was designed to help adults…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Family Involvement
Duque, Diana L. – 1993
This report presents findings of the evaluation by the New York City public school system's Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment of three programs (Summer E.S.L. Welcome Plus, Summer Bilingual, and Project Omega) for immigrant students. The Summer E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) Welcome Plus program operated at 19 sites in New York…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Chinese Americans, English (Second Language)
Sivulich, Sandra Stroner; Enos, Randall – 1992
The summer reading program of the New York State Library is intended to assist youth in increasing their intellectual base by broadening their backgrounds through reading during the summer. The 1992 "New York is Reading Country" theme is intended to add a few more layers to what students already know about the state and to be helpful in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Libraries, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Mounts, Deborah S.; Street, Steven C. – 1983
The primary purpose of a Sacramento, California, summer school project for 200 migrant children (K-8) was to determine whether significant change in teacher and student behaviors would result from combining right brain and left brain learning activities for 34 school days. Objectives were to increase affective and social skills and academic growth…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Change Strategies
Becker, William A. – 1986
The reasons that counselors in resident summer camps return to work are explored, taking into account the differences between private and agency camps, and differing attitudes of male and female camp counselors. A random sample of returning counselors at 15 private and 15 agency camps in the Northeast were selected for the study. Six attitudinal…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Camping, Counselor Attitudes, Counselors
Ackermann, Susan P.; Byock, Gayle J. – 1989
The Freshman Summer Program and Transfer Summer Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are designed to increase the academic achievement, retention, and graduation of underprepared and underrepresented or low-income students. Phase I of the evaluation assessed the extent to which academic and nonacademic goals and objectives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Preparation, Curriculum Evaluation
Trego, Nancy ReMine – 1987
Amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) require each service delivery area to develop an educational component as part of its Summer Youth Employment Program. The Summer Youth Employment Program enhances the basic educational skills of youth, encourages school completion for enrollment in supplementary or alternative school programs,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Delivery Systems, Dropouts
Rhode Island Univ., Kingston. – 1985
The collective bargaining agreement between the Rhode Island Board of Governors and the University of Rhode Island Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) covering the period July 1, 1985-June 30, 1987 is presented. Items covered in the agreement are: unit recognition, management rights, nondiscrimination, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Center for Education Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1986
The Institutional Characteristics machine-readable data file (MRDF) is a subfile of the larger Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). It contains extensive descriptive information about more than 3,000 accredited institutions of higher education in the United States and its outlying territories. Each record includes the following…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Programs
Ascher, Carol – 1988
Recent research shows no significant educational benefits from providing summer schools, extended school years, or year-round schooling to disadvantaged students. However, the severe educational difficulties faced by these students, combined with the many practical reasons for deviating from the traditional school year, are strong reasons why…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Problems, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Problems
McLaughlin, Gerald W.; And Others – 1984
The implementation and results of the Virginia Student Transition Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Tech) are described. The objective of the 5-week summer program is to facilitate the enrollment and retention of black college students with slightly lower than average aptitude scores through the development of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), Black Students
