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Roc, Martens; DeBaun, Bill – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2012
Three years after signing the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965--legislation that established the Basic Education Opportunity Grant (now called the Pell Grant)--President Lyndon Johnson declared that "every man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential--unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income."…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Perez-Arce, Francisco; Constant, Louay; Loughran, David S.; Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2012
Decades of research show that high school dropouts are more likely than graduates to commit crimes, abuse drugs and alcohol, have children out of wedlock, earn low wages, be unemployed, and suffer from poor health. The ChalleNGe program, currently operating in 27 states, is a residential program coupled with post-residential mentoring that seeks…
Descriptors: Investment, Residential Programs, Models, Outcomes of Education
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Mountford, Christine – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
The mission and values of Victoria University provide the underlying criteria for the development and implementation of the Community Gateways initiative, which aims to transform the lives of those living in the west of Melbourne through the power of further education. Community Gateways takes the university into the community by providing career…
Descriptors: Career Education, Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Prior Learning
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Hallam, Susan; Rogers, Lynne; Shaw, Jacquelene; Rhamie, Jasmine – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2007
In recent years, there has been an increased recognition of the importance of parenting and the way in which parenting programmes can be an effective intervention in changing behaviour and parent-child interactions. The aim of this research, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, was to provide a map of parenting programme provision in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parent Education, Parent Child Relationship
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Buys, Nicholas; Bursnall, Samantha – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2007
Many academics do not view community engagement as a priority in their work. Yet, in an increasingly competitive funding environment, there is evidence that many benefits arise from the creation of university-community partnerships. This paper describes a study that documents the experience of seven academics successfully establishing community…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Community Benefits, Educational Benefits
Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1993
The Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program was evaluated from the standpoint of its impact on three groups: VISTA volunteers, communities served by VISTA sponsors, and sponsoring organizations to which VISTA volunteers are assigned. Survey questionnaires were sent to 1,250 of the 3,400 VISTA volunteers currently in service, 494 current…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs
Weinberg, Mark L. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1987
Business incubators can help fledgling firms get off the ground by providing business services and rental space, at below-market costs, for a business's first few years. The payoff for the community is more jobs. Concentrated until recently in urban areas, incubators are now succeeding in rural areas too. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Support, Entrepreneurship, Financial Support
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Chen, Greg; Warburton, Rebecca N. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
Traffic collisions kill about 43,000 Americans a year. Worldwide, road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death by injury and the ninth leading cause of all deaths. Photo Radar speed enforcement has been implemented in the United States and many other industrialized countries, yet its cost-effectiveness from a societal viewpoint, taking all…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Program Costs, Public Policy
Wolf, Wendy C.; And Others – 1982
The development and operation of the Federally funded Ventures in Community Improvement Demonstration Project (VICI) and its impact on participant youths and communities are summarized in this report. VICI's purposes were (1) to provide young, minority, inner-city, high school dropouts with intensive skills training in the workplace that could…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Community Benefits, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
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Rickard, Wendy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2002
This paper evaluates a case-study work-based learning (WBL) programme for final year health studies undergraduates, analysing key characteristics, and reporting benefits and tensions that result. It triangulates evidence from learners, community agencies and teachers. Cross-fertilisation of ideas between the academy and community agencies, and the…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Partnerships in Education, Health Education, Community Benefits
Fernig, Leo; And Others – 1982
Servol (Service Volunteered for All) is a voluntary organization in Trinidad and Tobago with a staff of some 90 people engaged in a wide range of activities grouped in seven Life Centers and a periphery of 13 nursery schools, as well as family farm units in a rural area. From a modest start in late 1970, Servol has grown steadily during its first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Benefits, Community Centers, Community Development
Cicco and Associates, Murrysville, PA. – 1979
A retrospective comparative analysis of data collected between 1975 and 1979 was undertaken at Westmoreland County Community College (WCCC) to quantitatively determine the impact of WCCC's developmental education program on: (1) the persistence and academic performance of underprepared students; (2) the college's financial situation; and (3) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
Nussbaum, Claire A. – 1981
Community education programs have seldom presented quantitative data to validate the usefulness of the program. This study was an attempt to establish a beginning community education program while planning for quantitative evaluation from the initiation of the project. Based on a group process, community residents were involved in the development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Community Attitudes
Holdsworth, Roger; Stafford, John; Stokes, Helen; Tyler, Debra – 2001
Student Action Teams (SATs) were established in 20 Victoria, Australia, secondary schools in 1999, with 11 of those schools continuing with their teams in 2000. The Student Action Teams are comprised of groups of students who identify a school or community issue, research it, make plans and proposals about it, and take action on it. Such…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Case Studies, Community Action, Community Benefits