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Crowe, Mary L., Ed.; Guerrant, Bessie, Ed. – Grantee Submission, 2018
"Mentoring through the Transitions: Voices on the Verge" highlights the individuals, programs, and institutions succeeding in assisting STEM students through critical junctures such as high school to college, community college to four-year institution, and four-year institution to graduate school and beyond. It features the authentic…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Transitional Programs, Mentors, High School Students
Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ1), 2008
In this edition of "Conditions of Education" six of the leading academic authorities on education policy in California address the key issues facing the state's education system, focusing their attention on critical indicators of current performance and on specific policy changes that would lead to sustained improvement. They identify…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Gardner, Ralph, III, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book was written to disseminate measurably superior instructional strategies to those interested in advancing sound, field-tested educational practices. Part 1 contains chapters that give two views of the future of behavior analysis in education, while part 2 focuses on promoting applied behavior analysis. Part 3 addresses issues in early…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy
Rusch, Frank R.; And Others – 1991
This monograph provides a descriptive analysis of five grant programs funded by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) in 1984. The programs were designed to stimulate the improvement and development of programs for secondary special education and to strengthen and coordinate education, training, and related services…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Federal Aid
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