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Download full textDepartment of Education, Washington, DC. – 1999
Developed for the America Reads Challenge Read*Write*Now! program, this tip sheet presents ideas and suggestions for strengthening efforts to help improve children's reading through community reading programs designed to keep children reading during the summer and after school. The tip sheet discusses building partnerships, recruiting volunteers,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Community Involvement, Literacy, Parent Participation
Thompson, Richard T. – 1991
After an analysis of the changing numbers of Americans studying Chinese abroad and of Sino-American academic exchanges after the Tiananmen events of 1989, this paper reports on visits to summer language programs. Enrollments were down by 13 percent between the summer of 1988 and 1989, but down by 50 percent between 1989 and 1990. The following…
Descriptors: Chinese, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Young, Raymond J.; McDougall, William P. – 1991
This book offers normative information about various operational facets of collegiate summer activities, places the role of the modern day collegiate summer session in evolutionary perspective, and provides baseline information produced by four national studies and one regional study. The book's chapters focus on: (1) a global perspective and…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational History, Educational Practices, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSinatra, Richard C. – Reading Improvement, 1975
Describes a successful language experience reading program integrated within highly motivating camping and recreational activities for title one children with reading difficulties. (RB)
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Program Descriptions
Marron, Thomas – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1975
Outdoor recreation is a vitally important part of the educational experience received by students in the Coventry R. I. Natural Resources Program. (BP)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Leisure Time, Outdoor Education, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLippincott, W. T. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1974
Presents four basic objectives for National Science Foundation education programs in 1975 and outlines changes in priorities in the new programs. (GS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Editorials, Financial Support, Foundation Programs
Schumann, Herbert – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1975
Summer employment and participation in professional programs offer the vocational agriculture teacher the unique opportunity to attain excellence in his program. Most administrators appreciate the teacher's efforts and the resulting well-planned and implemented programs. (MW)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Individual Development, Program Development, Seasonal Employment
Search, David L. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1974
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Deaf Blind, Evaluation
Vaughn, ronald – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1975
For the last five years Western Illinois University has conducted work experience programs for putting secondary teachers and students with secondary teaching as their objective in direct contact with the business world so they may learn about the value of cooperative work experience programs at the secondary level. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Programs, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers
Branch, Alvia Y. – 1986
The Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) provides 14 and 15 year olds with a paid summer experience that combines work, remediation in reading and math, and life skills instruction. This national, federally funded program is a response to data which show that poor academic performance and teenage pregnancy are important contributors to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Daily Living Skills, Internship Programs, Low Achievement
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation and Testing. – 1985
Described are aspects of the evaluation of the Detroit (Michigan) Public Schools' 1985 Chapter 1 Citywide Summer School program, a program implemented to improve the reading and mathematics skills of students from pre-kindergarten classes through grade 8. A random sample of 18 schools, including elementary and middle schools, was selected for…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Program Evaluation
Trangmoe, John – 1988
The Glendive Migrant Program, a 1989 exemplary Chapter 1 program, is a 5-week summer project serving the children of migrant families working in a 60-mile area along the Yellowstone River valley, Montana. The program serves approximately 110 students, ages 1-18. Instructors, supervisors, and aides work with nursery, preschool, and elementary-age…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Migrant Education
Hoffman, Ellen – 1987
"Service Plus" was designed as a pilot program to employ teachers in Bedford County, Tennessee over the summer to supplement their income and to develop services the community needed. Operating every summer since 1984, the program has provided employment to teachers in positions in the local human services, parks and recreation, juvenile…
Descriptors: Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Employment, Nonprofit Organizations
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1989
The 1989 New York City Pupils with Compensatory Educational Needs (PCEN) Summer Remediation Program met or exceeded each of its objectives. The program comprised basic skills and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, serving 12,785 students in 880 classes in the regular high schools and an unspecified number of students at 73 off-site…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, English (Second Language), High Schools
Berger, Sandra L., Comp. – 1990
This annotated bibiliography of readings and resources for parents and teachers of gifted children is divided into the following categories: books containing general information about gifted and talented students, 1985-1989 (15 items); practical self-help books, 1979-1989 (16 items); books on specific areas in gifted education (13 items);…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Creativity, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
