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Download full textSchultz, Caroline; Seith, David – MDRC, 2011
The Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) program in Fort Worth was part of a demonstration that is testing innovative strategies to help increase the income of low-wage workers, who make up a large segment of the U.S. workforce. The program offered services to help workers stabilize their employment, improve their skills, and increase their…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness, Low Income Groups
Schultz, Caroline; Seith, David – MDRC, 2011
The Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) program in Fort Worth was part of a demonstration that is testing innovative strategies to help increase the income of low-wage workers, who make up a large segment of the U.S. workforce. The program offered services to help workers stabilize their employment, improve their skills, and increase their…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness, Low Income Groups
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Direct linkAugustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan – State Education Standard, 2015
The Wallace Foundation is funding a multiyear demonstration project to determine whether voluntary, district summer learning programs can stem summer learning loss for low-income students. Six districts--Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (Florida), Pittsburgh, and Rochester, New York--were selected for the demonstration project and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
Haslam, M. Bruce; Rouk, Ullik – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2006
The Yale-New Haven Teachers' Institute was founded in 1978 on the belief that "university and school teachers across the country have a strong, mutual interest in the improvement of teaching and learning in the schools." The core goal of the model is to establish a sustainable partnership between districts and universities in order to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teachers, Leadership, Exhibits
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1991
This annual performance report presents the results and accomplishments of Texas vocational education programs, services, and activities for the 1990-91 program year. It is composed of three sections. Section I contains information for secondary and adult vocational education programs, services, and activities offered by local education agencies…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Organizations, Consumer Education
Peace, Betty; Lovelace, Bill – 1983
A project was conducted to develop a vocational instructional program designed to meet the vocational needs of students in small school districts. During the first phase of the project, a literature review was conducted to identify the philosophical bases, purposes, and structures that characterize cooperative vocational education programs and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Competence, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Planning
McMillan, Samuel H., Jr. – 1979
The University of Texas Pilot Program was operated in five sites in Texas (Abilene, Brownsville, El Paso, Houston, and Temple) to demonstrate the utility of competency-based high school diplomas for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients. Included among the program features common to all five sites were the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, High School Equivalency Programs
Thiele, Christyne S. – 1985
This project was conducted to develop a course of study in health occupations in grades 9 and 10 for a county-wide comprehensive health careers high school. The course was to include related skills development in health occupations, support materials for an academic course of study, and broad outlines of curriculum for grades 11 and 12. The High…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Articulation (Education), Audiovisual Aids, Career Education
Education Service Center Region 17, Lubbock, TX.
The model described here is designed to serve as a method whereby a local school management/implementation team can implement career oriented education. It provides infusion strategies, materials, and staff development techniques through which The Education Service Center (ESC) staff trains and supports the Local Education Agency (LEA) team, which…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Career Education, Cooperative Planning
Texas Education Agency, Austin.
Ten of the twenty Education Service Centers (ESC) that provide instructional and technical services to the local school districts in Texas were asked to participate in a project designed to demonstrate infusion and management techniques in career education. Activities were accomplished under the following objectives: (1) establish the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development
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
Delaney, Ann K. F. – 1976
Described is the development of the Educational Based Appraisal System, a model whereby educational diagnosticians and teachers in Collin County (Texas) could work together in developing effective individual educational programs for exceptional children. Sections cover the following topics: statement of the problem, conceptualizing a solution,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Dissemination. – 1978
Intended for use by visitors to the Demonstration Schools in Individualized Instruction (DSII) network, this guide provides the following information: lists of members of the DSII steering committee and service center contact persons, explanations of the DSII and of Project CITE (Coordinated Information for Texas Educators), a visitor's checklist…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides, Individualized Instruction
Turner, Ruth M.; Macy, Daniel J. – 1978
The paper describes a 5-year longitudinal study of a Texas school district's implementation of an individualized mainstream special education program. "Plan A" program activities and outcomes are reported for five phases (sample subtopics in parentheses): initiation in one high school, one junior high school and eight elementary schools…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children, Individualized Programs
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The overall objective of the project was to develop a model adaptable throughout Texas that would enable school districts to increase and maintain female enrollment in vocational programs that had traditionally been dominated by males. In meeting this overall objective, other secondary objectives also had to be met. These included providing…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs, Equal Education
