Career-connected learning is an educational strategy that combines high-quality academic instruction, skill-based learning, and real-world experiences to prepare students with the knowledge and skills that they need to pursue their college and career goals. Career-connected learning can be delivered in a variety of ways, including in core content…

The Native American and Alaska Native Children in School (NAM) discretionary grants program aims to reduce the persistent achievement gaps between Native American and Alaska Native (NA/AN) youth and their peers on measures of reading and English language arts (ELA) (NCES 2015) and on measures of college-readiness in reading (ACT 2017). One reason…

This publication is basically a catalog that presents summary descriptions of approximately 50 innovative instructional and management practices developed by school districts and other educational organizations in the state of Oregon. Most of the programs listed were developed using federal funds, though several were financed entirely by the state…

The resource guide to Colorado career education programs offers information on more than 50 school programs, obtained from a number of sources including a statewide assessment instrument administered by the 1974 Colorado State facilitator project and the Colorado Department of Education. It is not intended to be comprehensive. Information…

This resource guide to Colorado environmental education programs offers information on environmental programs currently in operation and services available to Colorado educators in environmental/conservation education. Information is provided on five programs that have been validated for national dissemination by the United States Office of…

This directory contains brief descriptions of 386 educational programs and practices considered by the Kansas State Department of Education to be promising. Four hundred Kansas teachers and administrators submitted descriptions of programs and practices, most of which are applicable to elementary and secondary education, although 36 are…

This Title III project involved the training and utilization of a paraprofessional counselor in working with a sample of first-time freshmen students at California's Southwestern College. The hypothesis was that a team consisting of a paraprofessional and professional counselor wound be more effective in counseling; the assignment of routine tasks…