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Peer reviewedFahey, John A. – Educational Leadership, 2000
In its valiant differentiation and detracking efforts, a Virginia high school hoped to assist all students in mastering state standards and enrich, excite, and challenge high-ability students via learning contracts and advanced material feeding their interests. However, disgruntled parents managed to reinstate the tracking system. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Diversity (Student), High Schools, Inclusive Schools
Download full textBonnet, Deborah G.; Isherwood, Kimberley K. – 1982
In order to assess the effectiveness of the Career Education Incentive Act (CEIA) of 1977, data were collected from a review of eight states' fiscal 1980 and 1981 annual reports as well as from a study conducted by the American Institutes for Research. According to these data, CEIA monies have indeed been allotted and matched as prescribed by the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Career Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Belzer, Alisa; Drennon, Cassandra; Smith, Cristine – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2001
In Chapter Five, Alisa Belzer, Cassandra Drennon and Cristine Smith provide an overview of the challenges facing state-level professional development systems. The authors begin the chapter with a brief history of professional development in adult basic education, noting shifts in the funding and priority of professional development in the field.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Professional Development, Profiles, State Programs
Leopold, Gregory D.; Childers, Robert D.; Howley-Rowe, Caitlin – 2000
To generate information that would help rural schools take advantage of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) program, 47 principals of rural schools in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia were interviewed via telephone. The schools fell into two categories: schools that applied but were not funded through the CSRD…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Wehman, Paul, Ed.; And Others – 1997
This manual includes articles that address many of the major issues affecting supported employment programs for individuals with severe disabilities. Articles discuss current trends in service delivery, the experiences of local community employment agencies, issues involved in funding supported employment, natural support implementation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship
PDF pending restorationVirginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Div. of Adolescent Education. – 1993
This manual provides background information and guidelines for teachers who develop and implement cooperative education programs in Virginia. It includes both the Virginia guidelines for operation of cooperative education programs and training materials for cooperative education teacher-coordinators. The guide contains 15 sections that cover the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1992
Guidelines for the development and implementation of a public school uniform policy are presented in this document. Written during spring 1991 in response to Virginia House Bill 1206, which directed the state board of education to develop model policy guidelines by January 1, 1992, the suggestions serve as a practical guide for planning,…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Dress Codes, Elementary Secondary Education, Policy Formation
Tipton, Anne – 1989
The 1988-89 Highlands Educational Literacy Project (HELP) in southwest Virginia was initially designed to provide local volunteer tutors with intensive training in the Laubach one-to-one method of teaching reading. HELP was a cooperative effort of community service agencies, church and civic groups, and interested individuals to provide free…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction
Cahalan, Margaret; And Others – 1983
Under the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (P. L. 96-272), Congress outlined a case review system intended to assure that child welfare agencies deal directly with various aspects of child placement. The second of four volumes, this document presents case study descriptions of the hearings within the context of the case review…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Child Welfare, Children
Smith, Nick L., Ed.; Caulley, Darrel N., Ed. – 1982
The nature of educational evaluation and its interaction with policy in six state departments of education is examined. Case reports of research and evaluation units are presented for Virginia (by Gerald W. Bracey), Michigan (by David L. Donovan and Stanley A. Rumbaugh), Washington (by Alfred F. Rasp, Jr.), South Carolina (by Paul D. Sandifer),…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy
Hoffman, Allan M., Ed.; Julius, Daniel J., Ed. – 1995
This book contains 19 papers describing the implementation of Total Quality Management in a variety of higher education settings. Following a Foreword by Peter Likins and a Preface by Daniel J. Julius, the chapter titles and authors are: (1) "TQM: Implications for Higher Education--A Look Back to the Future" (Allan M. Hoffman and Randall…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg. Div. of Vocational-Technical Education. – 1982
This guide was prepared to assist vocational teachers in developing and implementing competency-based education in their classrooms and laboratories throughout secondary vocational and adult programs in Virginia. The guide may also (1) provide general and specific information on competency-based education (CBE); (2) serve as a resource for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Competency Based Education
Hoerner, James L.; Horne, Ralph A. – 1980
The purpose of this sample guide is to assist teachers and curriculum specialists in developing instructional materials that are competency based and that meet Virginia standards for competency-based education (CBE) programs. The sample deals with the occupation of welding, but it is the format that is of interest here, not the subject matter.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Classroom Techniques, Competence, Competency Based Education
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg. Div. of Vocational-Technical Education. – 1984
This booklet, developed for persons interested in exemplary programs to improve vocational guidance and counseling, reviews currently funded projects in the field of vocational guidance. The document contains abstracts from 39 exemplary projects in vocational guidance and counseling in the state of Virginia. Included are abstracts from 7 projects…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Computer Oriented Programs
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1978
This guide is designed for school principals who bear the responsibility for the successful administration of Virginia's Competency Program. Several aspects of the program are described: legislative background; graduation requirements concerning citizenship and qualifying for further education or work; tests used to assess reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Citizenship Education, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
