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Brumfield, Elizabeth Jean – Online Submission, 2008
The American Library Association encourages public libraries to extend their services to people in jails and detention centers, but there is little research that shows exactly how many libraries do so. Research shows that 54% of juveniles arrested are not sent to residential facilities but instead receive court ordered probation into an Intensive…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Outreach Programs, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency
Stoudt, John; And Others – 1985
These criteria are designed for use by teachers and administrators to conduct a self-assessment of an industrial arts program for students and thus identify outstanding programs. General criteria are grouped under 12 standards: purpose, administration and supervision, learning resources, finances, instruction, equipment, facilities, instructional…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Industrial Arts, Program Evaluation
Burwick, Andrew; Bellotti, Jeanne; Nagatoshi, Charles – US Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start Bureau, 2004
Father involvement enhances children's well-being. A growing body of research supports this conclusion, showing that children with involved fathers exhibit greater school readiness, increased cognitive development, higher levels of empathy, and other positive characteristics (Administration for Children and Families 2004a). Research also indicates…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Participation, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs
Royce, Sherry – 1995
A staff development project designed a publication for the effective statewide dissemination of significant current or previous Section 353 special demonstration projects in adult literacy education in Pennsylvania and for the provision of feedback to project directors about their project's strengths and weaknesses. During the project, 72 programs…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Feedback
Danks, Barbara – 1980
This demonstration project was conducted to create an awareness among the least educated adults in Armstrong and Indiana counties of Pennsylvania of the availability of Adult Basic Education (ABE) opportunities at the ARIN Adult Learning Center and its satellites. The project was carried out by means of a public relations program. Activities…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Methods, Information Dissemination
KOVACS, FRANK W.; MCLAIN, JOHN D. – 1967
SUPERIOR STUDENTS IN RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS WERE GIVEN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN SELECTED SUBJECT AREAS TO DETERMINE IF A NONDIRECTIVE METHOD OF DIFFUSING AN INNOVATION, LIKE PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, WAS APPROPRIATE FOR DISSEMINATION IN A RURAL ENVIRONMENT. THE EFFECTS OF THE COOPERATIVE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT ON STUDENTS, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND HIGH…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Demonstration Programs, High Schools, Information Dissemination
GERARD, ROBERT A. – 1966
THE PROGRAM, DESIGNED TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW METHODS OF EMPLOYING YOUTHS FROM LOW- AND MARGINAL-INCOME FAMILIES, EMPLOYED 170 YOUTHS AGED 16 TO 21 IN IMPROVING AND DEVELOPING VACANT AREAS FOR RECREATION IN DECLINING NEIGHBORHOODS. THE LONGER RANGE GOALS OF THE PROJECT WERE TO ENCOURAGE THE YOUTHS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR SKILLED EMPLOYMENT AND TO…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Indigenous Personnel, Neighborhood Improvement
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Burger, Robert M.; And Others – 1976
A 2-year project provided inservice training to school personnel involved in vocational education and placement of trainable mentally retarded students in Pennsylvania. Project activities included a review of the literature, the development of task analysis training techniques, the compilation of a procedural manual and a job placement guidebook,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment
McCloskey, I. L. – 1976
This report describes the background and results of a project to establish a school-based job placement service in the Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. The center's activities, based on a previously-developed model, included these components: (1) Cooperative job development with the Bureau of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Employment Services, Job Placement
Lareau, Edward H. – 1975
The interim report describes the progress of the first year of a three-year exemplary project in career education beginning in 1973 and conducted by the Admiral Peary Area Vocational Technical School in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. The purpose of the project was to develop a "reality bound" total K-14 educational continuum. The model…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Curriculum Development
Pittsburgh Univ., PA. Generations Together. – 1994
A demonstration project was conducted in three diverse, multiethnic Western Pennsylvania communities to use older adult tutors to improve Head Start parents' literacy skills so that these parents could aid and encourage the development of their own children's literacy. During the project, the partnerships in two Pennsylvania counties developed and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Family Literacy
Hartman, Joel A.; Brown, Emory J. – 1970
This analysis of the impact of a result demonstration educational program was made in an effort to achieve the following goals: (1) identification of the objectives of the educational program; (2) description of the program; (3) assessment of awareness of the program by target clientele; (4) measurement of the amount of change that takes place;…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Bibliographies, Change Agents
Smith, Thomas B. – 1994
This guide was developed during a demonstration project conducted in three diverse, multiethnic Western Pennsylvania communities to use older adult tutors as mentors to improve Head Start parents' literacy skills and ability to develop their children's literacy. The guide is intended to facilitate tutors' learning about family literacy and to give…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Ross-Gordon, Jovita M.; And Others – 1990
The Services for Transition to Independence through Education (STRIDE) project evaluated a model for providing comprehensive training and employment services to adults with mild handicaps, using existing vocational education classes and special needs support programs in a secondary vocational technical school in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Services…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs
Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania. Center for Vocational Personnel Preparation. – 1990
This document reports on a project designed to customize training for employees of manufacturing industries in six western Pennsylvania counties. Project goals were to facilitate collaborative vocational and technical training programs between educational institutions and private sector companies and to establish demonstration sites, manufacturing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Manufacturing, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Electricity
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