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Boyd, Sally; Chalmers, Anna; Kumekawa, Eugene – 2001
A study investigated the postsecondary intentions and the actual outcomes of secondary transition among 321 students from five schools in New Zealand. Phase 1 identified students who did not intend to return to secondary school. The next year (2000), they became the target population for Phase 2, which examined the students' actual continuation on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Articulation (Education), Career Choice
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 2003
POLYTECH High School in Woodside, Delaware, has gone from being among the worst schools in the High Schools That Work (HSTW) network to among the best. Polytech, which is now a full-time technical high school, has improved its programs and outcomes by implementing a series of organizational, curriculum, teaching, guidance, and leadership changes,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Career Academies
McGuirk, Jenny – 2001
A study examined how technology is being used in "youth at risk" programs through a survey sent to programs in the technical and further education and adult and community sector in New South Wales. About 214 surveys were sent with a response rate of 18 percent. Findings and issues arising from a literature review and the survey may be summarized…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Education, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
The career and technical education (CTE) system before Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 has been characterized as traditionally dominated by gender segregation and discrimination. The most damaging consequence of such gender bias is to limit females' access to the benefits of CTE--the living wage that provides females the same economic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Counseling, Educational Change, Educational Discrimination
Marx, Eva, Ed.; Wooley, Susan Frelick, Ed.; Northrop, Daphne, Ed. – 1998
This book presents a collection of papers that define comprehensive school health programs and their components and provide action steps for their implementation at the local, state, and national levels: (1) "Linking Health and Learning: An Overview of Coordinated School Health Programs" (Floretta Dukes McKenzie and Julius B. Richmond); (2)…
Descriptors: Child Health, Comprehensive School Health Education, Coordination, Educational Environment
Paneitz, Becky – 1997
This study explored the perceptions of distance-education students in two-year institutions toward advising, counseling, and library/media services. The objectives were to provide information to assist community college personnel in the development of relevant student support services for distance-education students. Two questionnaires were…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Access to Education, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges
National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, 2003
This brief document provides a look at research and evaluations that have demonstrated that school-based health centers represent cost-effective investments of public resources.
Descriptors: Attendance, Public Health, Mental Health, Counseling Services
Ward, Betty Arnett – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1958
Since aging has become a field of increasing interest, many requests for information on the educational aspects of the subject have been received in the Office of Education. Because of the growing number of these requests, and because so few items bearing on education are included in the reference lists in the general field of aging, this…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Older Adults, Adult Education

Gregory, Sheila – Planning for Higher Education, 1997
Demographic trends suggest colleges and universities will be enrolling record numbers of foreign-born students, and must prepare to introduce this population to the distinctive practices and standards of American higher education. Suggestions include redesigning the orientation program, establishing strong English language instruction, improving…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Planning

Carten, Alma J. – Social Work, 1996
Reports findings of qualitative, exploratory study that examined outcomes for 20 women who had successfully completed the Family Rehabilitation Program in New York City and identifies client characteristics associated with successful drug rehabilitation and practice interventions that support retention in drug treatment. (Author/FC)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Children
Kilgore, Deborah; Meade, Susan – Journal of Correctional Education, 2004
A boot camp is a military style correctional facility in which inmates are subject to a highly structured and challenging regimen of physical training, in addition to vocational, educational, and therapeutic programming (Cronin and Han, 1994; Austin, Jones, and Bolyard, 1993; Mackenzie and Souryal, 1991). Originally introduced to rehabilitate…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Adolescents, Males, Institutionalized Persons
VanSciver, James H. – Principal Leadership, 2004
With the specter of No Child Left Behind hanging over their heads, educators should be wary of using disaggregated data to track selected populations of students and their progress through school. Such data can be misleading by showing that students are doing well, although they may be taking classes that are not challenging. Although the myth of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Grade 8, Minority Group Children, White Students
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for community colleges with twenty percent or more Black students enrolled that participated in ACT's 2010 "What Works in Student Retention survey." The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. The following are appended: (1) Data for Two-Year Community Colleges with greater than or equal…
Descriptors: African American Students, Community Colleges, College Faculty, College Students
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for community colleges with twenty percent or more Hispanic students enrolled that participated in ACT's 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey. The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. Appendices include: (1) Data for Community Colleges with greater than or equal to 20% Hispanic…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Community Colleges, College Faculty, College Students
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for four year colleges and universities with twenty percent or more Black students enrolled that participated in ACT's 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey. The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. Appendices include: (1) Data for Four Year Colleges and Universities with greater…
Descriptors: African American Students, Community Colleges, College Faculty, College Students