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Education Writers Association, Washington, DC. – 1991
Six reporters in diverse areas looked at how their communities were responding to adult literacy, basic skills, and workplace literacy programs. This guide contains six reports, three in each of its two parts: (1) Reporting on Welfare Reform--Is the Story Literacy or Decent Jobs? and (2) Reporting on Literacy Programs--Is There a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Programs
Fenske, Robert H.; And Others – 1983
The full range of topics relevant to student financial aid are covered in this book by a variety of experts in financial aid administration and scholarship. The volume details how to organize, implement and assess a financial aid program--including how to determine student need, deal with student bankruptcy and aid termination, and improve…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Budgeting, College Students
Managing Human Resources. PACE Revised. Level 3. Unit 12. Research & Development Series No. 240CB12.
Ashmore, M. Catherine; Pritz, Sandra G. – 1983
This individualized, competency-based unit on managing human resources, the 12th of 18 modules, is on the third level of the revised Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE). Intended for the advanced secondary and postsecondary levels and for adults wanting training or retraining, this unit, together with the other materials at…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration, Business Education
Dubravcic, Elizabeth V.; And Others – 1986
This combination report and guide is intended to assist a broad audience of state and local educational administrators, teacher educators, and state policymakers. The first chapter of the guide examines (1) current views from the field regarding procedures for defining teacher effectiveness, teacher supply and demand, factors affecting teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Competence
Cusick, Theresa; Wolfe, Leslie R. – 1985
This paper presents an analysis of the sex equity provisions of Public Law 98-524, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It is intended to assist parents, students, educators, and activists to ensure that the provisions of the Act are fully implemented throughout the country. The two major purposes of the new vocational education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights Legislation, Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Barrett, Nancy S. – 1984
This examination of structural changes in the U.S. economy and its effect on the role of working women presents a policy agenda for alleviating some of the economic strains facing today's working woman. Material is arranged into 3 parts. Part 1 provides an historical backdrop and discusses women's shift out of housework, women as providers, and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Displaced Homemakers, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents
Blakely, Edward J.; And Others – 1983
Eleven papers on rural economic development cover challenges and opportunities; employment trends affecting nonmetropolitan areas; status of nonmetropolitan women and minorities; case studies of Vermont, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and California; western urban and regional development; economic development in small cities; and rural policy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Census Figures, College Role, Economic Change
Kansas State Board of Regents, Topeka. – 1982
A project entitled Enhancing the State Role in Lifelong Learning was undertaken in Kansas to enhance state-level planning and the development of policies in support of adult education. Because Kansas is one of six pilot project states participating in the Education Commission of the States (ECS) Lifelong Learning Project, a two-year data…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Advisory Committees
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This congressional hearing contains testimony given in Montpelier, Vermont, at the first of a series of nationwide hearings on vocational education. Focus of this particular hearing is on the specific needs of Vermont as a rural northeastern state to train a workforce that is talented enough to help retrain existing businesses and industry and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
1973
Focusing on the relationship of aesthetics to environmental planning, the document emphasizes human/environmental interaction. The major objective of the report is to increase understanding of aesthetic concepts so that the concepts can be employed in environmental research and planning. Three aspects of aesthetics are stressed: aesthetics as…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Expression, Attitude Change, Concept Formation
Pflueger, Susan Stoddard – 1977
Major research findings are synthesized and innovations of current concern to vocational rehabilitation professionals are reported in this document, which covers the area of independent living. Independent living is described as an integral part of the rehabilitation process for the severely disabled in which the individual is assisted in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Change Strategies, Definitions, Delivery Systems
Fieldhouse, Roger – 1977
This paper, the fourth of a series, covers the impact of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) on the field of adult education in England. The content is presented in four sections. The first one briefly covers the origins of the WEA. Section 2, a review of WEA's founding principles, concentrates on the objectives of working class…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Administrative Change, Administrative Policy
Childers, B. E.; Eaddy, K. M. – 1981
For more than 60 years, the Georgia State Board of Education has allotted funds to the University of Georgia for use in preparation of vocational teachers and administrators. Since passage of the 1963 Vocational Education Act, however, emphasis has been put on programs and services for specific groups of people, rather than on instructional areas…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Evaluation
Goggans, E. Patricia; Lawrence, Dorothy – 1980
This document is one of three publications designed to establish guidelines for the elimination of sex bias and sex stereotyping and the establishment of sex fairness in vocational education programs in Colorado. As an administrative reference, it provides background material about the problem and a plan of action for correcting it for school and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Background, Bibliographies
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1979
This planning statement on improving vocational education in Oregon high schools and community colleges is intended to guide schools in the further development and improvement of vocational education. Discussed in the first section are the concept of a comprehensive curriculum, the relationship of career and vocational education, and the broad…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Guides, Career Education, Change Strategies