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Download full textLow, Marylin; Clarence, Winton; William, Keti – 2002
Children enter grade 1 at an island school in Kosrae, Micronesia with a rich oral language and very little experience with print. One of the main tasks of teachers is to help children become literate. However, the literacy and assessment practices in this early grade classroom are limited and unquestioned. In determining how best to teach early…
Descriptors: Community Support, Evaluation Methods, Grade 1, Literacy
Kopp, Hilary – Jobs for the Future, 2002
Since the inception of the School-to-Work Project in 1998, networks members have increasingly viewed credible evidence as critical to both their approaches to program improvement and their strategies for winning and sustaining support and resources. This issue brief: (1) Describes the activities Network members have pursued together during…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Feedback (Response), Data Collection
Gullickson, Arlen R.; Wick, James H. – 1976
The major objective of the South Dakota Career Education Project was to provide a program of in-service education and curriculum enrichment for the staffs and students of ten demonstration school systems. An external evaluation of the project was conducted based primarily on personal interviews and the perusal of materials developed as a part of…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Support, Curriculum Development
Stead, Floyd L.; Hartnett, Richard A. – 1978
To determine the effectiveness of the Appalachian Maryland Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Project in meeting its aims and objectives, a third-party evaluation was conducted for 1977-78. Forty students in grade 12 participated in the project, spending four days a week at selected career sites and a day at the EBCE Learning Center…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Career Planning, Community Support
Dakota State Coll., Madison, SD. – 1976
The purpose of the South Dakota Career Education Project was to establish demonstration centers for the development and advancement of K-12 career education in the state. These demonstration centers were also intended to serve as a national model for the delivery of career education services. The major objective was to provide a program of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Support
Walker, Karen E.; Arbreton, Amy J. A. – 2001
The Beacons Initiative aimed to transform eight public schools (five middle schools and three high schools) into youth and family centers in low-income neighborhoods in San Francisco, California. Using a coalition of local partners and funding from public agencies and foundations, the centers served 7,500 youth and adults between July 1, 1999, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, After School Centers, After School Programs, Black Students
Harris, Zelema; Eros, Dawn – 1978
The project's purpose was to implement a vocational curriculum evaluation model developed by the Metropolitan Community College (MCC) District. The model was formatively field tested with ten MCC vocational programs and implemented in the evaluation of twenty-four vocational programs. The model's criteria was based on the program's (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Community Colleges
