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Nash, Andy – 1993
Workplace education curriculum models may be based on the functional context, ethnographic/student-centered, or participatory approach. Curricula based on the functional context approach focus on the abilities (functions) needed by workers at a specific worksite, and workers are unlikely to have much input in deciding what or how they will study.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Ethnography, Industrial Training
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Post, John O., Jr. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1979
The problem dealt with here is that of developing evaluation procedures that will determine, through objective evidence, the merit of a demonstration project that uses an infusion approach to career education in an ongoing school system. The design of this process has emerged from the Occupational Competence Access Project. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Steinfeld, Michael, Comp. – 1991
This compilation presents material related to a Library Literacy program, which was designed to collect, publish, and distribute the writing of new adult readers and whose target audience was students, teachers, tutors and librarians involved in library-based literacy programs in Massachusetts. The first part of the compilation presents the final…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Periodicals
Goldsmith, Susan Secor – 2000
This model responds to the need of many Massachusetts schools and teachers for specific guides to the required scope of core knowledge, to curriculum design, and to teaching resources. Each unit of study in the model is accompanied by a group of sample readings from children's literature, largely nonfiction selections. The model is not…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, History, Models
Mitchell, E. Glenn, Ed.; DePlacido, Ann, Ed. – 1990
This document presents model program efforts designed to foster academic and social growth for all students in the least restrictive environment. The program ideas were presented at a conference highlighting effective program collaboration between regular and special education. The programs aim to enhance student skills as well as foster…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Competence
Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1987
This guide outlines the methods for organizing and using vocational technical advisory committees in secondary schools in Massachusetts. It is intended to be used as the basis for school staff training to be conducted by personnel at the State Department of Education's Regional Education Centers. The guide provides illustrations and exhibits of…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Guidelines, Models
Massachusetts State Executive Office of Economic Affairs, Boston. – 1987
The Workplace Education Initiative was created in Massachusetts to provide workers with the opportunity to develop basic literacy skills, to increase employer and union awareness of the extent of functional illiteracy among workers as well as its cost, to develop a number of partnership models that link the acquisition of basic education skills…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1992
Developed in response to requests from public school providers to the Massachusetts Department of Education for technical assistance, this publication offers guidance on how best to care for and educate young children whose first language is other than English and/or who are from diverse cultural backgrounds. The question and answer format…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Differences
Scott, Gertrude M.; And Others – 1986
This guide describes the partnerships created by the Bay State Skills Corporation, which successfully united more than 100 people from government, education, and the private sector to train 332 people for jobs averaging $6.27 per hour to start; it also provides guidelines for establishing similar programs. The guide contains seven chapters. The…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. Coll. Scholarship Service. – 1985
Student loan counseling and debt management are discussed in three papers, six commentaries, and a panel discussion from a College Scholarship Service colloquium. In "Fulfilling the Institution's Responsibilities to Student Borrowers," Theodore J. Marchese discusses a shift in student financial aid marked by the ascendency of loans…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Debt (Financial), Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
McGrath, Mimi; Pekelo-Bielen, Rhonda – 1983
This volume, the second in a two-volume guide designed to provide vocational educators in Massachusetts with some practical tools for planning and implementing student recruitment strategies in their local areas, offers step-by-step instructions for implementing specific recruitment strategies. The first chapter examines the benefits of holding…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advertising, Bilingual Students, Communication Skills