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Grattan, Mary C. – 1983
Four successful content area writing aids have been developed in the writing center at a southeastern community college. The first is a content area writing lab, tailored to a sociology course, in which students receive concentrated instruction on notetaking, studying for and taking essay exams, and writing a questionnaire and an analysis paper.…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Cooperation, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Naylor, Michele – 1987
Because of their special ties to the community, community-based organizations (CBOs) are often able to be more responsive to the needs of local or special populations than can mainstream institutions such as schools and government-funded employment services. CBOs such as Service Employment Redevelopment (SER), the National Urban League, and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Education, Community Organizations, Cooperative Planning
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Journal of Reading, 1983
Describes a New York City program in which reading and social studies teachers work together to improve students' language abilities while they learn the required course content. Credits an inservice program with paving the way for the cooperative effort. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Cooperation, Inservice Teacher Education, Integrated Activities
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Wheeler, Patricia M. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Explains how one teacher developed a cross-age tutoring program that allowed her high school students to help primary grade problem readers. Argues that high school students with reading problems make good tutors for troubled beginning readers because they are sympathetic and inventive. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
This guide is intended to explain the types of partnerships that business can form with education to prepare students to enter and make a successful adjustment to the demands of the workplace. The first chapter discusses the consequences for business of an ill-prepared work force and examines the issues of the quantity and quality of workers, with…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Campbell, Anne – 1985
The educational reform movement, rural economy, and demographics of rural areas of the United States require, if not mandate, that partnerships be forged in education among and between people in rural areas, urban and suburban areas, states, and the nation to provide quality education for students who will become the leaders of tomorrow. Through…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum, Demography, Educational Change
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Morris, C. Patrick – Wicazo Sa Review, 1986
Native American Studies programs, however small, are the Native community's academic foothold in higher education. To maintain and expand this foothold of approximately 105 programs on university and college campuses throughout the United States, Native American Studies must continue to develop its professional capacity to act as an "independent…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Studies, Community Services, Curriculum
Karon, James P. – 1985
Using information from relevant literature and recent surveys and interviews with administrators of many of Rhode Island's smaller school districts, the report identifies options/strategies which may be useful in counteracting the potential adverse effects that low, or significantly declining, enrollments may have on the comprehensiveness of a…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment, Delivery Systems
Soviet Education, 1990
Briefly describes several joint enterprises between Soviet technical institutes and European firms involved in computer software development and other aspects of technical engineering. Explains the role played by Soviet governmental agencies in sponsoring these joint projects. Describes problems with the projects. Identifies benefits, including…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Economic Development, Educational Cooperation, Engineering Education
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Burrow, Jim – 1982
This self-instructional module, the eighth in a series of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, deals with developing and implementing training plans. Addressed in the module are the purposes and features of a training plan, developing a training plan, and implementing a training plan for each student in the program. The…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Interviews
Stocksdale, Cathy J. – 1985
This guide is designed to assist older worker program operators and managers as well as advocates for older workers in the field of employment and training. Described in the first two sections are the major components of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP). The next two sections…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Check Lists
Bowe, Frank; Rochlin, Jay – 1983
This handbook describes services that rehabilitation has to offer business, outlines how practitioners may approach business with these services, and provides resource information and material that the practitioner may find helpful in this work. Covered in the individual chapters are the following topics: the basic services that rehabilitation can…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Business, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs
Hoyt, Kenneth B.; Shylo, Karen R. – 1987
This document examines what has happened to career education since the 1981 repeal of the Career Education Incentive Act and where it appears to be going in the future. In his monograph "Trends in Career Education: Implications for the Future," Kenneth B. Hoyt examines past, present, and future trends in the field from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. – 1982
This guide outlines a plan of action for developing and administering vocational agricultural programs at the state level. Discussed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: the rationale for agricultural education programs in the classroom; guidelines for action (creating a coalition and task force, identifying needs and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Cooperative Planning