Extended learning opportunities (ELOs) provide safe, structured learning environments for students outside the traditional school day. ELOs include afterschool and summer learning programs as well as before-school, evening, and weekend programs. ELOs come in many forms and can include tutoring, volunteering, academic support, community service,…

The Washington Secondary Credit Exchange Program allows grade 7-12 migrant students to complete work toward graduation and/or to enhance basic skills during late afternoon or evening classes as they follow the crops from state to state with their families. A Spring Model allows students entering late in the year to complete courses already begun…

Since there was little educational opportunity for those interstate secondary migrant students from Texas and California who worked in the fields throughout the day, the North Franklin School District Night School was begun in 1971. During that time, one teacher was hired full time through the Title I Migrant Program. For the next 2 years, the…

EIGHTEEN COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN WASHINGTON STATE FUNDED UNDER TITLE I OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT ARE BRIEFLY REVIEWED IN THIS REPORT. TO A GREAT EXTENT THESE PROGRAMS (MOSTLY FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS) PROVIDE REMEDIAL WORK IN READING, WRITING, AND ORAL COMMUNICATION. MANY ARE ALSO CONCERNED WITH…

An adult evening education program called SPHERE (Spokane Higher Education Regional Enrichment), which is a consortium of seven private and public institutions of higher learning, illustrates much on the subject of external communication linkage as it applies to schools. External and internal communications problems between member schools are…

The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine the current evening/adult education administrative practices in community colleges in Washington State as perceived by the presidents, the deans of instruction, and the directors of evening/adult education; (2) to analyze selected administrative relationships between the full time day programs and…

This study assessed the practices of the adult evening programs of community colleges in Washington State. From a survey of the literature, a list was made of practices recommended by writers in the field of adult education and was used in developing an appraisal instrument, which was then refined by a trial group of respondents. The refined…