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Direct linkFitch, Brian D., Ed.; Normore, Anthony H., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations. It is incumbent to encourage public awareness of the causes that underlie the destructive cycles plaguing these populations, including the abuse and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Needs, Recidivism, Institutionalized Persons
Download full textWard-Roof, Jeanine A., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2010
The 2010 edition of this monograph addresses many topics (e.g., administration of orientation programs, family involvement, student characteristics and needs, assessment, and orientation for specific student populations and institutional types) that were included in previous editions but approaches them with new information, updated data, and…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Guidelines, School Orientation, College Programs
Dee, Lesley – Open University Press, 2006
Transition planning for young people with special educational needs is a crucial but often overlooked element of social inclusion. While there is now considerable official guidance on how to manage the school leaving process for young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, little is known about how to make effective transitions…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Educational Needs, Young Adults, Education Work Relationship
Uphoff, James K. – 1995
Research shows that many primary grade students need extra-year options and benefit from them as they start their schooling. This book provides information about school readiness and transition programs in the United States, documenting the need for and success of such programs as a countermeasure to grade retention, as well as the negative…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Hamilton, Stephen F. – 1990
The educational and employment opportunities available to noncollege-bound youths in Germany and the United States were compared. The analysis focused on the following: the future of youth and work, the transition from school to career, apprenticeship, academic education, and vocational education. The existing U.S. apprenticeship system, in which…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Vargas, Joel, Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed.; Miller, Marc S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Minding the Gap" argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, High Schools
Carrasquillo, Angela L.; Rodriguez, Vivian – 1996
The book is an introduction to the teaching of students whose first language is not English, especially limited-English-proficient (LEP) students, in the regular classroom. An introductory chapter defines terms, offers guiding principles, and outlines issues in the education of this population. The second chapter looks at the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Needs
