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Foley, Ellen; Mishook, Jacob; Lee, Jaein – Voices in Urban Education, 2013
Despite some cuts to the nation's oldest Federal College Access Programs, known as the TRIO programs (e.g., Upward Bound), new education policies have emphasized college and career readiness. In 2010, Congress approved the College Access Challenge Grant Program, which aims to increase the number of low-income students who are ready for college.…
Descriptors: School Districts, Government Role, Program Development, College Readiness
Shaffer, Hank – 1980
The Community Education Program has created a series of publications detailing successful local community education programs that have dealt with specific problem areas such as citizen participation, child abuse, and programs for dropouts. This document presents the Upper Arlington, Ohio community education program that addressed use of excess…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Organizational Effectiveness
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Office of Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1984
The purpose of this handbook is to provide guidelines for developing and implementing structured parent/community involvement programs in bilingual education and English as a Second Language (ESL) programs in local school districts. Section One concerns the assessment of school, parent, and community needs; this section contains suggestions for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Tarantine, James A. – 1978
Teachers in Ohio's Mansfield City Schools, K-10, participated in a project designed to include career development as a regular part of the instructional program. First, career education coordinators provided inservice sessions to enable school personnel to incorporate career development within the curriculum. The career development program also…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
InterAmerica Research Associates, Washington, DC. – 1978
The proceedings at fifteen career education site visits are detailed in this phase 2 final report. (Phase 1, community organization mini-conferences, is described in CE 020 110.) Notes from these visitations cover such programs as career education centers, school system-based programs, and education-work councils. Several site-visit purposes are…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Influence, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Schroeder, Paul E. – 1981
This guide to the use of PAK materials is the first of the five-part Comprehensive Community-Based Services for Offenders Information PAK that provides guidelines for developing a system to improve ex-offender service delivery. (Parts 2 and 3, which also contain printed information, are available separately.) The first section discusses the need…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiotape Recordings, Community Involvement, Community Resources
Inverness Research Associates, 2006
In the 1990s, the nation's educational focus turned to troubled schools in the nation's poorest cities. Under the leadership of Luther Williams, then Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Urban Systemic Initiative was created to improve the teaching and learning of science and mathematics. Recognizing that high-needs…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Rural Areas, Counties, Rural Schools
McBain, Susan L.; Topougis, Nicholas J. – 1978
This description of career education activities in Akron (Ohio) Public Schools was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of this study.)…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
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Schroeder, Paul E. – 1981
This paper describing a system for delivering comprehensive services to offenders is the third of the five-part Comprehensive Community-Based Services for Offenders Information PAK that provides guidelines for developing a system to improve exoffender service delivery. (Parts 1 and 2, which also contain printed information, are available…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Resources
Drews, Pearl A. – 1977
Based on collaboration efforts in Akron, Ohio, this manual is designed to help interested communities implement or expand collaboration of career education among the formal education system, the home-family structure, business, labor, industry, government, the professions, service organizations, and others. Topics discussed include the following:…
Descriptors: Agencies, Business, Career Choice, Career Development