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Lane, Margaret T., Comp.; Goldsmith, Jan, Comp.; Kram, Lauri, Comp. – 1996
This collection of approximately 200 documents gathered during 1984-95 consists of materials used in the administration of state documents depository programs, including: (1) bibliographies; (2) commentaries and letters; (3) depository contracts; (4) forms and form letters; (5) labels; (6) legislation and legal materials; (7) mailing lists; (8)…
Descriptors: Depository Libraries, Government Publications, Library Administration, Library Collections
Download full textArnold, Nancy L., Ed. – 1996
This monograph includes eight articles that examine self-employment as a goal for vocational rehabilitation closure for rural disabled people. Articles cover the changing labor market and increasing opportunities for self-employment; an account of how home-based employment allowed a disabled worker to become self-sufficient; policies and practices…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Entrepreneurship
1998
Six papers discuss the Louisiana School Effectiveness and Assistance Pilot (SEAP) program, an ongoing 3-year research project associated with a legislatively mandated school and district accountability program. In three phases, the project joins school indicators, school effectiveness, and school improvement initiatives. The following papers are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Talley, Ronda C., Ed.; Burnette, Jane, Ed. – 1982
The handbook discusses administrative strategies found successful in fostering the integration of mildly handicapped students in five states' school systems (California, Kansas, Massachusets, Minnesota, and Texas). In "Administrative Systems for Service Delivery," T. Oliver describes approaches to streamline referral to placement…
Descriptors: Administration, Communication Skills, Community Resources, Delivery Systems
Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, Providence. – 2003
Noting that childhood lead poisoning is one of the most common preventable pediatric health problems, this report examines lead poisoning as a health problem to which infants and young children are most susceptible and as a housing problem directly related to a shortage of safe, affordable housing. The report details screening rates in Rhode…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Health, Children, Housing
Kowalski, Kenneth; Chittenden, Edward; Spicer, Willa; Jones, Jacqueline; Tocci, Cindy – 1997
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has challenged test developers to create a voluntary program of certification in which highly accomplished teachers receive recognition for meeting rigorous standards. These four papers report the experiences of teacher-candidates, school district administrators, researchers, and test…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Studies, Higher Education, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
National Center for the Early Childhood Work Force, Washington, DC. – 1994
This report presents the results of a national forum on the compensation of child care workers which sought to develop strategies to break the link between what parents pay for child care and what child care providers earn. A total of 56 policymakers, researchers, economists, and child care advocates met for 2 days to review current child care…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Compensation (Remuneration), Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Weissert, Carol S., Ed. – 2000
This book examines welfare reform, occasioned by the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which abolished Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). It is based on research in Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan that…
Descriptors: Adults, Change, Children, Compliance (Legal)
Peer reviewedBottani, Norberto, Ed.; Delfau, Isabelle, Ed. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1990
Eight articles on international educational indicators (IEIs) are presented. Topics include functions and limitations of IEIs; science and math indicators and national welfare; higher education indicators; cost and resource indicators; and national perspectives from the United States, Australia, France, and England and Wales. (TJH)
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Indicators, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1993
In the Teacher-to-Teacher series of the National Education Association's Professional Library, teachers speak directly to other teachers about school restructuring issues. This volume covers issues in student assessment, focusing on student portfolios and their uses in reflecting student processes, collaboration, and literacy. Various portfolios…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Berkowitz, Monroe, Ed.; And Others – 1985
This report suggests feasible alternatives to the present methods of calculating benefits and costs of the joint federal-state vocational rehabilitation program. "Summary and Guide to Reading This Report" (Monroe Berkowitz) appears first. Part I, Background, Theory and Models, includes "The Cost Benefit Tradition in Vocational…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Databases
Handler, Joel F., Ed.; Zatz, Julie, Ed. – 1982
This report contains the results of a 3-year study sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, whose purpose was to assess what has been happening to youth who commit status offenses (truants, runaways, incorrigibles), in the aftermath of the 1974 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The book reviews and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Kent State Univ., OH. Ohio Literacy Resource Center. – 2001
This document contains 61 poems, short stories, and personal reflections that were selected from more than 300 entries submitted by adult literacy students throughout Ohio. The works included are as follows: "The Apartment" (Shirley Pettit); "The Last Poem Before I Die" (Lonnie Littleton); "A Family Lost" (Mary Rapp);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Writing
Fulford, Nancy, Ed. – 1994
Policy briefs are reports on the status of current issues in education from a national perspective; descriptions of actions and agendas in the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) region; and commentaries by experts from their particular point of view; and resources for further information. The focus of this report is technology…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Department of Labor, Chicago, IL. Region V. – 1989
This document comprises the second volume of a two-volume resource guide to help states and localities take advantage of new Federal initiatives to increase services to youth under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). This volume comprises the discussion papers that formed the basis for the options summarized in the first volume. The papers…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Employment Programs
