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Hull, William L.; Oldsen, Carl F. – 1979
Designed for state vocational education Research Coordinating Units (RCU) personnel who manage dissemination programs, this guide offers suggestions for sharing dissemination responsibility with other state programs. The guide examines the possibilities of integrating activities in a horizontal dimension, i.e., across state educational agency…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Articulation (Education), Delivery Systems, Diffusion
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (ED), Washington, DC. Compensatory Education Programs. – 1996
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 (with its reauthorizations) is designed to help disadvantaged children meet challenging content and performance standards. Part A of Title I provides financial assistance through State educational agencies to local education agencies (LEAs) to meet the educational needs of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Ireys, Henry T. – 1995
Designed to guide and structure the needs assessment of Pennsylvania children with special health care needs, this document describes six specific steps in planning and conducting a needs assessment. The steps include: (1) stating the goals of the needs assessment, including fulfilling legislative mandates, identifying geographical areas that have…
Descriptors: Children, Data Collection, Decision Making, Disabilities
Langton, Anthony J.; And Others – 1991
These planning guides are intended to help vocational rehabilitation programs and agencies identify important issues during preliminary discussions concerning possible use of assistive technology and technology-related services. They are designed to evaluate the effectiveness of current technology-related services, to implement or expand assistive…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Delivery Systems, Disabilities
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1982
In 1978 the state of New York established the Regents Competency Testing Program to ensure that all high school students would achieve a state standard of competency in reading, writing, and mathematics prior to graduation. That same year the Resource Allocation Plan was established to help schools in improving pupils' achievement in the basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrator Role
Boeck, Debora – Washington State School Directors' Association (NJ1), 2002
This guide presents some of the best thinking about the difficult and puzzling work of improving student achievement. Taken as whole, it gives a complete picture of what it will take to close the achievement gap. It contains background, findings, and key policy recommendations from a 22-month study conducted by the Washington State School…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Administrative Principles