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Download full textAngelova, Iva – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
This paper focuses on job transitions and professional development of immigrants in the United States. Using narrative as a method and exploring Bulgarian immigrants' personal experience stories, this report shares some of the findings from the author's dissertation. Upon coming to the United States, the Bulgarian immigrants experienced a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Migrant Education, Professional Development, Career Development
Direct linkCorsello, Maryann; Sharma, Anu; Jerabek, Angela – Grantee Submission, 2015
Ninth grade is a pivotal year for students. Numerous studies find that academic performance in 9th grade often sets the student's trajectory throughout the high school years, as well as the probability of graduation. The Building Assets Reducing Risks (BARR) model is a comprehensive approach that addresses developmental, academic, and school…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High School Students, Transitional Programs, Experimental Groups
Zachry, Elizabeth M.; Schneider, Emily – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2010
One of the greatest challenges that community colleges face in their efforts to increase graduation rates is improving the success of students in their developmental, or remedial, education programs. This literature review seeks to examine research on developmental education strategies and reforms and identify the most promising approaches for…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Developmental Programs, Remedial Instruction, Adjunct Faculty
Gold, Veronica – 1999
In the past decade, disappointing national outcomes have been reported regarding the transition of youth with disabilities to community and work environments. The transition outlook is even more dismal for rural youth with disabilities, in light of geographic barriers to special education service delivery, lack of jobs in rural areas, and rural…
Descriptors: Disabilities, High Schools, Professional Development, Program Development
Sample, Pat; And Others – 1996
Colorado rural special educators are experiencing tremendous challenges in providing mandated transition services to students with special needs. The School of Education and the Department of Occupational Therapy at Colorado State University have developed a program to create rural transition specialists through preservice and inservice training…
Descriptors: College Programs, College School Cooperation, Distance Education, Higher Education
Gibson, Gwendolyn D. – 1991
This document reports on the Chicago public high school improvement plans for the 1990-91 school year submitted during the summer of 1990 in response to the Chicago Public Schools Reform Act of 1988 (PA85-1418). Following background information on Chicago's public high schools, the purpose of PA85-1418 is explained as well as improvement plan…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
