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Download full textDepartment of Education, Washington, DC. – 1999
This guide presents the Department of Education's strategy for ending social promotion in public schools. It opens with a description of social promotion and the pervasiveness and the consequences of this practice. The volume outlines the high standards that all students should be held to and emphasizes the importance of creating reliable measures…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Flexible Progression
Morgan, Elizabeth L.; Spearly, Diane Hawk – 1984
Growing out of a review of the process and outcome of the Hospital Employee Child Care Project (HECCP), an unsuccessful child care consortium, this manual was developed to help groups considering similar joint child care projects. After reading the manual, it is hoped that project initiators will be more sensitive to influences on the consortium,…
Descriptors: Conflict, Cooperation, Early Childhood Education, Economic Factors
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1984
This paper describes the school-community guidance centers authorized by the Texas legislature in 1981 in an attempt to decrease the incidence of student disruptive behavior and student contacts with the criminal justice system. The variety of services, including academic instruction, counseling, home/school liaison, and follow-up programs, are…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, Guidance Programs
Hamilton, Jack A. – 1979
The Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP) was established in 1972 by the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to review projects that seek federal funding for nationwide dissemination. Since very few career education programs have been represented among the exemplary programs approved by JDRP, a project was…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Peer reviewedEly, Donald P.; Plomp, Tjeerd – International Review of Education, 1986
Discusses the roots, definition, applications, and development of educational technology; educational problems which could be addressed by educational technology; and educational technology applications and reasons for their successes and failures. Guidelines for successful implementation of educational technology programs are outlined. (MBR)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Definitions, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1990
This report addresses the conditions of at-risk children and builds a case for changing the odds so that they favor such children. The introduction summarizes nearly a decade of education reform efforts related to disadvantaged youth. It underscores the need to intervene early. Four subsequent sections: (1) describe the developmental…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Child Health, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
