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Wilson, Jackie – 1979
Project EPIC (Educational Preparation for Involvement in Careers) was conducted to study the best methods and techniques of infusing career education into the curriculum in five schools with high proportion of low-income children in the Jefferson County School System (Kentucky). The project had five basic goals: (1) provide low income children…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Involvement
Orange County Public Schools, Orlando, FL. – 1987
The Single Teen Parent Program conducted by the Orange County, Florida, Public Schools, was designed to help single teen parents acquire marketable skills and jobs in order to head independent family units. The parents served were between the ages of 16 and 20 and either had a high school diploma or had passed the General Educational Development…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making Skills
Jackson, Shirley F. – 1999
Because an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teacher in Pennsylvania observed from the intake questionnaires completed by her students that many ESL students lack short- and long-term goal-setting skills, she undertook an action research project to help ESL students develop the short- and long-term goal-setting skills needed for educational,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students