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Farrace, Robert – Principal Leadership, 2008
Concurrent enrollment programs provide academic challenges for high school students and also provide a strong foundation for career and technical education programs. The state of Utah is one of the leaders in concurrent enrollments, providing funding for high schools to adopt such programs across the state, and Weber State University in Ogden,…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, High Schools, Vocational Education, Administrator Attitudes
Exceptional Parent, 1983
The policy statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics on the Doman-Delacato approach to treating children with neurological handicaps cites lack of reseach support for the method and concludes that its demands may overburden families without achieving progress that would not be accounted for by growth and development. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Neurological Impairments, Position Papers, Program Effectiveness
Rosser, Don – NJEA Review, 1981
The New Jersey Education Association refutes arguments being made by critics of New Jersey's educational tenure law. (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Position Papers, Program Effectiveness, State Legislation
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Van Houten, Ron; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1988
Recipients of treatment designed to change their behavior have the right to a therapeutic environment, services whose overriding goal is personal welfare, treatment by a competent behavior analyst, programs that teach functional skills, behavioral assessment and ongoing evaluation, and the most effective treatment procedures available. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Ethics, Helping Relationship
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Strange, Carney – NASPA Journal, 1983
Warns that as pressures for greater accountability increase, student affairs personnel risk focusing their attention on preservation of educational systems rather than on student development. Emphasizes the need for closer interaction between the theorist and practitioner, grounded in formal theoretical knowledge of human development. (JAC)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, College Environment, Higher Education
Ounce of Prevention Fund. – 1994
This report examines the expansion of Head Start programs to include children from birth to age 3. The report notes that high-quality, comprehensive programs for families and young children have demonstrated their effectiveness in helping families raise healthy, confident, curious children and, by providing support to parents, increasing parents'…
Descriptors: Child Health, Day Care, Federal Programs, Financial Support
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Gerardi, Robert J.; And Others – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1983
Charges that the individualized education plan required by the Education for All Hancicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) requires too much time and paperwork, although its philosophy is educationally sound. Suggests that less parental involvement in subsequent I.E.P.'s would be less restrictive. (JAC)
Descriptors: Committees, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Individualized Education Programs
Fuhrman, Susan H. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2003
To assist in the redesign of accountability systems, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) and the Center for Research on Evaluation, Student Standards, and Testing (CRESST) sought to assemble knowledge from new research on emerging accountability systems. A book, "Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education," edited by Susan…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Quality, Quality Control, Systems Analysis
Francisco, Richard P. – Journal of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, 1983
Charges that colleges have persistently maintained inequalities in their educational structures that affect minority and lower socioeconomic students. Explores the effectiveness of academic improvement programs and suggests strategies to overcome problems in spite of economic conservation, including support groups, peer counseling, and outreach by…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Educationally Disadvantaged, Equal Education
American Association of Community Colleges, Washington, DC. National Council of Instructional Administrators. – 1993
Focusing on student success strategies in the community college, this monograph provides a policy statement by the National Council of Instructional Administrators (NCIA) and profiles winners in the NCIA's 1992-93 exemplary program competition. First, the policy statement is provided, defining student success and providing strategies related to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Educational Facilities
Reed, V. Gerald – 1982
Cooperative education is a learning strategy that fits very well with basic laws of learning. In fact, several basic important learning processes are far better adapted to the cooperative education strategy than to methods that lean entirely on classroom instruction. For instance, cooperative education affords more opportunities for reinforcement,…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Attention, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC. – 2003
Noting that federal, state, and local decisionmakers are asking critical questions regarding the nature of young children's education, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDE) have issued this official position…
Descriptors: Accountability, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Organizations (Groups)
Price, Hugh B. – Brookings Institution, 2007
This Opportunity 08 position paper advises that the next President of the United States should focus on lifting the achievement levels of our nation's schoolchildren. It recommends that the new President should mount a determined effort, together with states and local school districts, to boost the academic performance of low achievers by: (1)…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Educational Change, Achievement Gains, School Districts
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Northcroft, David J. – Scottish Educational Review, 1992
Reassesses reformist "Report on Secondary Education" (1947) and ensuing effects on Scottish Education Department (SED) policies. Examines roles of administrators, teachers, and postwar values in Scotland's failure to realize report's calls for educational equality. Concludes that report, although energizing, was isolated in time and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Change Agents
Nevergold, Patricia A.; And Others – 1983
This report proposes a restructuring of the statutory framework for dealing with PINS (persons in need of supervision) defined as children under 16 whom the court has determined to be incorrigible, ungovernable or habitually disobedient and beyond the lawful control of parents or other lawful authority. The proposal, as described in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Court Role
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