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Chandra B. Floyd; Kelly Margot; Sarah Miller – Roeper Review, 2024
This narrative inquiry highlights the first year of a 5-year Jacob K. Javits grant. In it, the authors detail their experiences writing and receiving the grant and beginning the equity-focused work of helping develop and expand gifted education in Michigan. Michigan currently has no gifted education legislation or funding, so this Javits team…
Descriptors: Gifted, Grants, Equal Education, School Expansion
Engelmann, Carol A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation serves as a call to geoscientists to share responsibility with K-12 educators for increasing Earth science literacy. When partnerships are created among K-12 educators and geoscientists, the synergy created can promote Earth science literacy in students, teachers, and the broader community. The research described here resulted in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Earth Science, Scientific Literacy, Partnerships in Education
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Pitcock, Sarah; Seidel, Bob – State Education Standard, 2015
As numerous studies from 1906 on have confirmed, children lose ground in learning if they lack opportunities for building skills over the summer. Nonetheless, summer learning loss comes up but rarely in the national discussion of education reform. By the end of summer, students perform on average one month behind where they left off in the spring.…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Maintenance, Program Development, Educational Policy
Watson, John; Gemin, Butch – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2009
In at least 44 states across the country, students are logging in to learn at all times of the day and night--accessing courses they might otherwise be unable to take, interacting with students they might otherwise never know, and working with highly qualified teachers they otherwise could not access. In these and countless other ways, online…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Change, Barriers, Policy Analysis
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1975
This monograph discusses the developmental stages of career education in Michigan, and describes eight local-level career education projects in the state. Some of the specific programs in operation in Michigan include: (1) a placement project which finds jobs for students and graduates of a vo-tec center; (2) a career-oriented curriculum project…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1985
This report outlines plans and designated responsibilities developed under the direction of the Michigan State Board of Education for the purpose of providing direction and support for coordination of professional development program activities for teachers and other education professionals. The results of a need analysis for professional…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Cooperation, Needs Assessment
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1977
The final technical report of the Great Lakes Regional Resource Center summarizes special education activities in five major areas: state program development, educational appraisal, educational programing, sharing resources, and project accountability and administration. Explained are project goals of enhancing development, demonstration,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children
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Ray, Rossi J.; And Others – 1976
Using Terrence Deal's four developmental stages of alternative schools, the authors analyze the development of two Lansing, Michigan, alternative schools (the Capitol Alternative Education Program and the Re-Entry Program). Deal's four stages are the euphoric stage, the psychic upheaval stage, the dissatisfaction stage, and resolution (either…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education
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Herman, Jerry J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1978
This article briefly critiques management by objectives (MBO) as a means of specifying administrator tasks and then describes the implementation of MBO in the West Bloomfield School District, Orchard Lake, Michigan. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Administrators, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Management by Objectives
Gordon, Eric; Iverson, Grace – 1976
The needs assessment model developed in the Lansing School District has the advantages of encouraging decentralized educational decision-making at the building level including program budgeting and personnel assignments, of providing a system for community input, and of providing a commonality of student goals and objectives between all buildings.…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Decision Making, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Ray, James E.; Knapp, Robert – The Effective School Report, 1984
The Flint (Michigan) Community Schools developed a four-phase School Improvement process model. In Phase 1 (Commitment), school district and administrative support were obtained and pilot schools were selected (one elementary and one middle school). The principals of these schools and one teacher representative from each received training in…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
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Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1978
This career education implementation guide is designed for Michigan school districts which have not yet developed their plans for career education, as well as for those that are already immersed in initial planning or experimental implementation. The introduction found in section one includes such information as an overview of the related federal…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Rubino, Antonio N.; Pearl, John – 1994
This paper describes the role of and planning process for networking conferences in the cluster evaluation of the Michigan-based science education projects funded through the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Science Education Initiative to improve science teaching and learning with a long term goal of improving the scientific literacy of Michigan…
Descriptors: Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Div. of Special Education. – 1982
The manual outlines Michigan's procedures in providing special education services to students with emotional impairments. The first section depicts the special education process, beginning with pre-referral intervention strategies and referral and proceeding to evaluation, the individualized educational planning committee (IEPC) meeting, delivery…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Emotional Disturbances, Individualized Education Programs
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1988
This document offers guidelines for developing a health education program for grades K-12. The Michign Department of Education has determined 10 topics in health that comprise a comprehensive health education program: (1) disease prevention and control; (2) personal health practices; (3) nutrition education; (4) growth and development; (5) family…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Curriculum Development, Disease Control, Drug Education
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