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Summary of Legislation, Regulations, and Reports Concerning Basic Skills Instruction in the Community Colleges, 1987-1991.
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Menegas, Irene – 2000
This paper from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is a chronological summary of the legislation and regulations adopted from 1987-1990, which govern basic skills instruction in the community colleges. The Seymour Campbell Matriculation Act of 1986 directs the Chancellor to develop a funding formula for matriculation, and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Enrollment
Testimony Before The National Commission on Excellence in Education. (Public Hearing, Denver, Colorado, September 16, 1982).
Brown, Larry – 1982
The employability of secondary-level youth is considered by a youth employment company official in testimony to the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Attention is directed to ways in which young people, and particularly the economically disadvantaged, can acquire the necessary reading, writing, and math skills for on-the-job success.…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Basic Skills, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Hearings on Language and Literacy. Testimony Before The National Commission on Excellence in Education (Houston, Texas, April 1982).
Lundy, Eileen T. – 1982
Conditions of language and literacy are considered by a Texas educator and presented at a 1982 hearing held by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. It is noted that a 1979 policy at the University of Texas system established a freshman-level remedial English course for credit. At the University of Texas, San Antonio, this course is…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Change
Committee Meeting of Assembly Education Committee "To Receive Testimony from the Commissioner of Education, Mary Lee Fitzgerald, Department Staff, and Others Concerning the Department's Skills Testing Program, Including the Early Warning Test and High School Proficiency Test, Pursuant to Assembly Resolution No. 113."
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New Jersey State Office of Legislative Services, Trenton. Assembly Education Committee. – 1993
The Assembly Education Committee of the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services held a hearing pursuant to Assembly Resolution 113, a proposal directing the Committee to investigate the skills testing program developed and administered to New Jersey children by the State Department of Education. The Committee was interested in the eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness
Precollegiate Basic Skills in the California Community Colleges: A Report.
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Farland, Ronnald W.; Cepeda, Rita – 1990
In 1988, the Basic Skills Task Force was established to assess the effectiveness of four academic policies in addressing the needs of California community college students with skills deficiencies. The policies define the scope and content of Adult Basic Education and of Precollegiate Basic Skills Instruction in nondegree-applicable credit…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, College Preparation
State Minimum Competency Testing Programs: Resource Guide. Legislation and State Policy Authorizing Minimum Competency Testing.
Pipho, Chris – 1980
This guide to legislation and state board of education policy on minimum competency testing is designed to explain the legal basis for minimum competency testing mandates in the various states. Specifically, it explores: the differences between board mandates and state legislation; details of the requirements--subject areas, grade promotion and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Board of Education Policy, Citizen Participation, Educational Legislation