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JTPA Issues, 1989
This Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Update provides a quick primer of some of the key areas where states have flexibility to develop their own programs and processes in the new Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program. This guide is organized in seven sections that cover the following topics: (1) introduction; (2) why local areas…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA. Center for Human Resources. – 1989
This guide was developed to help Private Industry Council members and Job Training Partnership Act Service Delivery Area directors, planners, and program managers to develop new services by providing an introduction to the elements of effective basic skills programs. The guide is organized in three major parts. Part 1 reviews the research on the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
Berney, Tomi D.; Keyes, Jose L. – 1990
The Computer Writing Skills for Limited English Proficient Students (Project COMPUGRAFIA.LEP), bilingual special education classes totalling 375 Spanish-speaking students at 10 elementary schools in the Bronx, is evaluated. The project proposed to assist site teachers in developing appropriate lesson plans and effective teaching techniques and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Computer Science Education, Elementary Education
Sum, Andrew M.; Harrington, Paul E. – 1981
This report on labor force and occupational information needs of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors begins with a description of the CETA legislation and programs. The role and use of this information in CETA policy-making and program planning is addressed. Chapter 2 reviews the prime sponsor planning process for CETA…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Education, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Shannon, Thomas A. – 1982
When President Reagan took office in January 1981, the federal government had a four-fold function in public secondary and elementary education that included financing high-cost programs of overriding national significance and advancing the cause of civil rights throughout the nation. According to Reagan's "new federalism," the role of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
This study investigates three alternative methods in practice for operating and funding the Department of Defense (DOD) dependents' schools that are located in American military installations. Through the Military Construction Authorization Act of 1985, Congress indicated that federal maintenance and operation of dependents' schools was not an…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Dependents, Dependents Schools, Educational Finance
Rock, Donald A.; And Others – 1985
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Seniors Class of 1972 (NLS) and from High School and Beyond (HS&B), this study documents changes in the academic achievement of high school seniors between 1972-1980. It also identifies the school and student factors related to these changes. Its purpose is to inform…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Preparation, Educational Assessment
Markowicz, Arlene, Ed.; And Others – NAB Clearinghouse Quarterly, 1984
This issue targets the high risk segment of the youth population and their high unemployment rate. An overview discusses the contents. Ten "Bulletins" offer descriptions of programs and projects and demonstrate how long-term training, work and academic experience, and individualized training operate in functioning programs. To assist…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Counseling, Career Education, Cooperative Programs
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Office of Educational Accountability. – 1985
This document combines and consolidates the following statistical reports published separately prior to 1983-84: (1) "The Status of Education" (formerly the Superintendent's Annual Statistical Report); (2) "Selected Statistical Information--Individual Dade County Public Schools"; (3) "Ethnic Characteristics of Students and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on the Handicapped. – 1987
This brochure provides basic information to handicapped persons (specifically those who are blind, deaf, or developmentally disabled), or to the parents or guardians of a handicapped child, on the principal federally funded government services for which they may be eligible. It provides advice on how to begin looking for services provided in a…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education
Funkhouser, Janie E.; Moore, Mary T. – 1986
Because magnet schools restructure school and district attendance area boundaries in order to achieve racial heterogeneity, they attempt to disassemble the very unit towards which the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter 1 program targets its resources--neighborhood schools attended by poor children. A nine-district survey of the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Board of Education Policy, Compensatory Education, Conflict
Scorza, Margaret H.; And Others – 1988
Under Title VII funding, Project BEAMS (Bilingual Education for Achievement in Mathematics and Science) provided educational and support activities to 214 gifted students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in three Brooklyn high schools. The program gave students of Spanish, Haitian, Chinese, Korean, Middle Eastern, and various European…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese
Cabrera, Eulalia; And Others – 1988
The Computers in Bilingual Education (CIBE) program at South Bronx High School offered computer-assisted instruction in English as a second language (ESL), native language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science to limited-English-speaking students and provided instruction in computer literacy. It served 340 low-income ninth-, tenth-, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, English (Second Language)
Cabrera, Eulalia; And Others – 1988
In its fourth year, Project CHAMP (Chinese Achievement and Mastery Program) provided instruction in English as a second language (ESL), native language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies to 728 limited-English-speaking Chinese immigrant students in grades nine through twelve at three schools. Content-area classes were taught in English…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teachers, Cantonese, English (Second Language)
Lopatin, Arthur D.; And Others – 1988
In 1986-87, the Multilingual Survival Skills Program provided, with the support of Title VII funding, instructional and support services to 360 limited-English-speaking Haitian and Hispanic students at a Brooklyn high school. The program's major goals were to develop English and native language proficiency through simultaneous, intensive study of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Faculty Development
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