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Download full textLaura Rasmussen Foster; Jessie Stadd; Michelle Tolbert – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2023
When aligned with career pathways and other education and training programs in the community, IET programs offered in prisons and jails enable participants to make significant progress toward their education and training goals that can be continued after release. This guide summarizes lessons learned from the IET in Corrections project and serves…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Career Pathways, Educational Objectives, Training Objectives
Royce, Sherry – 1986
This guide is designed to help the adult education director spread the word about adult education to employers, legislators, city and county officials, school and agency administrators, and students' family, friends, and community. A timeline for sharing success stories is suggested. Detailed information is provided on starting a Sharing Success…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Community Involvement, Family Involvement
American School and University, 1979
Diversity, flexibility, and community involvement were the design criteria for White's Creek Comprehensive High School in Nashville, Tennessee. (Author)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Community Involvement, Educational Facilities Design, Flexible Facilities
Peer reviewedGreathouse, Betty; Young, Barbara Goldman – Social Studies, 1979
Presents a rationale for introducing multiethnic studies into elementary and secondary social studies classrooms and explains how community resources can help students understand themselves and others. Learning activities based on the televised version of Alex Haley's "Roots" are suggested. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Resources, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Fredenburg, Anne M. – 1989
The use of volunteers in special libraries is advocated in this report, which cites positive reasons for including volunteers among the library staff. (Bringing on volunteers during a budget crunch is not considered to be a positive reason.) The special library's relationship with the larger organization's volunteer department is mentioned as a…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Guidelines, Internship Programs, Library Administration
Fiala, Holly Harrison – School Administrator, 1983
Beginning on the front cover, this article recommends planning ahead and involving the community in surplus school use decisions. It suggests turning surplus schools into projects restoring historic buildings and benefitting neighborhoods. (JM)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Building Conversion, Community Involvement, Community Support
Hannaford, Claudia – 1985
The ABCs of financing church and synagogue libraries are presented in this guide as Acquiring Funds, Budgeting, and Cash Accounting. Acquiring funds and the basic means needed to start a library are described, including resources such as books, shelves, office supplies, and financial resources; ideas and methods are presented for soliciting both…
Descriptors: Accounting, Community Involvement, Cost Effectiveness, Financial Support
Bhola, H. S. – 1979
To provide an introduction to processes, issues, and problems of curriculum development in functional literacy and nonformal education, a monograph provides 11 chapters, each followed by exercises. The first chapter discusses curriculum development in relation to national development. The second chapter covers concepts of functional literacy and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Development, Community Education
