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Murphy, Dianna, Ed.; Evans-Romaine, Karen, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2016
A number of reports in the US have highlighted the country's need for improved second language skills for both national security and economic competitiveness. The Language Flagship program, launched in 2002, aims to raise expectations regarding language proficiency levels at the post-secondary level and to address structural gaps in the curricula…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Second Language Programs, Program Descriptions
Rainsford, George N. – 1972
Federal aid to higher education is characterized today by two points: the amount of dollar involvement continues to spiral, and the course of this aid in the future is highly uncertain. How did it all get started and where is it going? Both of these questions are explored. Examined are the formative years of congressional assistance to higher…
Descriptors: American History, Bibliographies, Colleges, Educational History
Goldwyn, A. J. – 1975
Regional library cooperation in Ohio operates under two organizational forms, the state-funded Area Library Service Organization (ALSO) and the federally-funded multicounty cooperatives. In 1974, to aid in statewide planning and in the development of each project, the state library commissioned this study of all its multicounty cooperative…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Library Cooperation, Library Expenditures, Library Networks
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Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1995
During calendar year 1994, the U.S. Department of Education published significant revisions to the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR). These regulatory changes addressed the noncompeting continuation (NCC) application process for discretionary grants and cooperative agreements, the Department's implementation of the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Brecher, Charles – 1973
Authored by a political scientist, the study focuses on the impact of two alternative policies, "political strategy" and "service strategy," designed to deal with the problem of poverty in American society. The central concern is the effect of the policies on the poor. The service strategy assumes that the poor differ from the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Wang, Margaret C., Ed.; Boyd, William Lowe, Ed. – 2000
These papers were presented at a 1999 conference that examined expert, practitioner, and community based knowledge and perceptions about factors that facilitate or inhibit successful multilevel partnerships to improve education and other important results for children and families by connecting collaborative services with education reform efforts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Child Development, Community Services
Bloom, Howard S. – 1990
This monograph presents results from a study of the Texas Worker Adjustment Demonstration, a 2,192-person randomized experimental evaluation of reemployment programs for displaced workers conducted at three Texas sites during 1984-85. It describes in detail: (1) the background, design, conduct, and content of the programs at each demonstration…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
Taylor, Lucille G. – 1974
Media programs were compared in 21 Utah high schools having student populations between 700 and 1,500. Differences in responses to a questionnaire administered by the Utah State Division of Instructional Media (USDIM) on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the school media program were identified, and the levels of responses were compared…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Media, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Lecht, Leonard A. – 1975
Written before the congressional deliberations which resulted in changes in the Vocational Education Act, this report makes the recommendations for national priorities of vocational education legislation. The report is in two general sections: (1) A National Planning Association (NPA) joint statement entitled "Strengthening Vocational…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Enrollment
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr., Ed. – 1978
Offered in response to a request by the National Science Foundation for information on how knowledge affects policy, the document investigates federal support of social research and development and evaluates the relevance of this research to social policy. Social research and development (R & D) concerns the identification and solution of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Courts, Data Analysis, Developmental Programs
Fenske, Robert H.; And Others – 1983
The full range of topics relevant to student financial aid are covered in this book by a variety of experts in financial aid administration and scholarship. The volume details how to organize, implement and assess a financial aid program--including how to determine student need, deal with student bankruptcy and aid termination, and improve…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Budgeting, College Students
Calhoun, Calfrey C.; Finch, Alton V. – 1976
Designed particularly for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in principles, history, and philosophy of vocational education and vocational career development, this text is also suggested by the editors for use in inservice teacher education classes in foundations of vocational education, vocational counseling and development, history and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Curriculum Design