Founded in 2012, One Book 4 Colorado (OB4CO) is a statewide annual initiative that offers free copies of the same book to every 4-year-old in Colorado. In 2016, the book was "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andreae. More than 75,000 books were given away at more than 500 sites, including Denver Preschool Program preschools and both public…

Since 1999, the Read to the Children (RTC) program has allowed offenders in Colorado's state prisons to send young family members a book accompanied by a recording of the offender reading it. RTC is a collaboration between the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Department of Corrections. In the past year, around 1,900 offenders and 3,200…

Every year 1.3 million U.S. high school students drop out of school with one quarter of female students failing to graduate on time. Female dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, to earn less when they are employed, to become pregnant before the age of 20, to become obese, to smoke, and to drink more heavily than their male counterparts. This…

In the "Higher Education Opportunity Act" of 2008, Congress charged the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance with conducting a review and analysis of regulations affecting higher education to determine the extent to which regulations are overly burdensome and need to be streamlined, improved, or eliminated. Specifically, Congress…

Northern Arizona University's Arizona Career Ladder Research & Evaluation Project for teachers implements a procedure for rewarding teachers based on performance levels rather than on years of teaching experience and college credits. Research data is collected each spring, analyzed and fed back to the districts for improvement of key program…

This volume presents a summary of the responses of 62 first-year teachers to a seven-page instrument entitled, "An Appraisal of My Preparation as a Teacher at Bowling Green State University." A copy of the instrument is presented. Selected narrative summary comments are made, and following these comments are summary tabular data related…

Career ladder program assessment for 1988, which is being conducted by The Arizona Career Ladder Research and Evaluation Project, is in its third year of data collection, analysis, and reporting. This document presents 38 statistical tables on average scores of responses to a survey of teachers and administrators regarding levels of program…

Northern Arizona University's Arizona Career Ladder Research & Evaluation Project for teachers implements a procedure for rewarding teachers based on performance levels rather than on years of teaching experience and college credits. Research data is collected each spring, analyzed and fed back to the districts for improvement of key program…

A survey of 65 principals in the Newark (New Jersey) school system elicited their perceptions of the effectiveness of the Newark Teacher Center, in terms of its value to the principals themselves as well as to the teachers. The principals were asked to indicate the degree of agreement or disagreement on 22 items. The highest agreement was with the…

Teacher incentive programs, including merit pay and career ladders, have been the focus of a great deal of debate among teachers, teachers' unions, administrators, and others in the education community. Teacher incentive programs have the potential to affect over 2 million public school teachers. This report on a national survey of public schools…

A project was conducted to analyze followup results from completers of secondary vocational agriculture programs in North Carolina, to develop usable materials, and to train others to use these materials. Key questions were asked concerning the utility of vocational agriculture in the state based on the responses of ex-students to the Secondary…

This report represents the fifth teacher education follow-up study at Central Missouri State University (CMSU). The Teacher Education Assessment Committee (TEAC), a centralized system of data collection and assessment, conducts and publishes results of periodic assessments and evaluations of the university's teacher education programs by…

A survey of former students of the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) wood technics programs and employers in woodworking industries was conducted during spring of 1985. General objectives were to determine job classifications, types of businesses, and relative importance of tasks or duties in various woodworking-related…