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Texas Advisory Council for Technical - Vocational Education, Austin. – 1979
Proceedings are presented of twenty public hearings conducted by the advisory council for technical-vocational education in Texas. The objectives of the hearings were to provide an opportunity for citizens to give input as to needs, assessment of resources, and dialogue regarding technical-vocational, adult, and manpower programs. The first three…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Hearings, Program Effectiveness
Harvey, James; Rainey, Lydia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2006
Bringing charters to scale remains a major challenge. To learn more about barriers to the expansion of high-quality public charter schools and how they might be removed, the National Charter School Research Project (NCSRP) at the University of Washington and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools convened a meeting of leaders from…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Environment, Program Implementation
Gross, Beatrice; Gross, Ronald – 1981
This report synthesizes the information presented at three conferences designed to develop guidelines for future funding for Follow Through programs. These conferences were part of a series of activities undertaken by the National Institute of Education (NIE) in 1981 to plan for a new set of Follow Through research and pilot project activities.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Program Attitudes
Montana State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Helena. – 1979
The findings and recommendations of a two-day conference on the civil and human rights of inmates of Montana's correctional institutions are contained in this report. The views of private citizens and experts from local, state, and federal organizations are presented in edited form under seven subject headings: existing prison reform legislation,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Correctional Institutions
Zill, Nicholas; And Others – 1984
The Interagency Conference on Child and Family Statistics was organized around seven groups that were asked to develop specific recommendations for improving the federal statistical database on children and families. This booklet is a report on the recommendations made at the conference. The first part of the report distills and synthesizes the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Children, Coordination
Doyle, Denis P., Ed.; And Others – 1987
This book, divided into three sections, comprises papers delivered at a conference on "Alternative Strategies in Compensatory Education," convened by the staff of the National Assessment of Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act and designed to aid Congress in its 1987 reauthorization of Chapter 1. The introduction,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change