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Robin Henrikson; Daniel Bishop – Evaluation Review, 2024
This paper presents the process of conducting a community-wide needs assessment that initially focused on soliciting information about childcare needs of families with school-aged children. The researchers were interested in understanding whether the method designed to conduct the needs assessment helped to foster collaboration, trust, and…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Partnerships in Education, Stakeholders, Community Involvement
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Aubree Tillett – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Military Families and the Arts is an ArcGIS StoryMaps collection that serves military families by mapping art museums and arts centers located near active-duty military installations. The interactive maps are organized by military branch and browsable by an alphabetical list of active-duty military installations. The ArcGIS StoryMaps collection…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Family (Sociological Unit), Geographic Information Systems, Art Education
Johnston, Diana Armatage – Exceptional Parent, 2010
Parents accustomed to a free and appropriate public education for their special children are shocked to find that there is no comparable housing assistance program when it is time for their adult children to finish school and leave home. An adult child's SSI income is usually less than the average monthly apartment rent in his neighborhood, so…
Descriptors: Income, Family Programs, Disabilities, Housing
Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob; Kearney, Emma – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010
At the state and local level, many school systems, districts and early childhood networks have developed approaches and programs to support children's transition to school. These programs often address school readiness. There are many definitions of school readiness. Some refer to the skills and attributes of individual children, defining it as…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Best Practices
Maryland State Department of Education, 2006
On June 9, 2003, the Task Force on the Education of Maryland's African-American Males was convened by the Maryland K-16 Leadership Council (chaired by the University System of Maryland Chancellor William E. Kirwan, former Maryland Acting Secretary of Higher Education John A. Sabatini, Jr., and Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S.…
Descriptors: Social Environment, School Readiness, Males, Expulsion