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Administrators as Heterotopia Architects: Supporting Expansive Possibilities of Inclusive Early Childhood Education
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Love, Hailey R. – Young Exceptional Children, 2021
Heterotopias are complex spaces characterized by the collision of the real (i.e., physical realm--who and what materials are present) and unreal (i.e., abstract realm--socially created meanings and understandings of the "real"; Foucault, 1986; Topinka, 2010). The early childhood classroom is a heterotopia in that it is a knowledge…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Quality, Students with Disabilities, Classification
Understanding and Supporting the Educational Needs of Recently Arrived Immigrant English Learner Students: Lessons for State and Local Education Agencies
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Umansky, Ilana; Hopkins, Megan; Dabach, Dafney Blanca; Porter, Lorna; Thompson, Karen; Pompa, Delia – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2018
Recently arrived immigrant English learners (RAIELs) are a highly diverse group, encompassing important subgroups such as students with refugee status, unaccompanied minors, and students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFEs). RAIELs arrive in the U.S. filtering into all grade levels, with varied initial English proficiency levels,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English Language Learners, Student Needs, Student Diversity
Student Volunteering in English Higher Education
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Holdsworth, Clare; Quinn, Jocey – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Volunteering in English higher education has come under political scrutiny recently, with strong cross-party support for schemes to promote undergraduate volunteering in particular. Recent targeted initiatives and proposals have sought to strengthen both the role of volunteering in higher education and synergies between higher education and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Volunteers, Politics of Education, Foreign Countries
Severely Handicapped Youth Competing in the Labor Market: Implementation and Effectiveness Report from the First Two Years of Project COMPETE. Working Paper 87-2. COMPETE: Community-Based Model for Public School Exit and Transition to Employment.
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Easterday, Joseph R.; And Others – 1987
This paper is a product of Project COMPETE, a service demonstration project undertaken for the purpose of developing and validating a model and training sequence to improve transition services for moderately, severely, and profoundly retarded youth. The paper reports on the first 2 years of the project, which has placed 20 students with a mean IQ…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Getting Acquainted with U.S. Eighth Graders: Implications for Nonschool Programs.
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Steele, Sara M.; And Others – 1993
Data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) provides information about critical transitions experienced by students as they leave elementary or middle school and progress through the educational system to the world of work. The Extension NELS study reported here used NELS:88 data for the base year sample of 24,599 eighth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Demography, Extracurricular Activities
Evaluation of the New York City Dropout Prevention Initiative. Final Report on the Middle Schools for Year Two, 1986-87.
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1988
This evaluation of the second-year (1986-87) implementation of the middle school Dropout Prevention Program (DPP) of the New York City (New York) Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI) focuses on student characteristics, program services, and outcomes. The 29 DPP middle schools were divided into two models. Fifteen of the schools comprise Project…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, High Risk Students
Evaluation of the New York City Dropout Prevention Initiative. Final Report on the High Schools for Year Two, 1986-87.
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1988
This evaluation of the second-year (1986-87) implementation of the New York City (New York) Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI) in 13 high schools focuses on student characteristics and outcomes, with a discussion of a set of statistical data on program services, findings on school-level indicators of program effectiveness, and an analysis of…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention