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Bernhardt, Jana J. – Journal of Educational Opportunity, 1997
Discusses the importance of academic advising to increase college student retention, graduation, and transfer in student-support-services programs designed for first-generation, low-income students and students with disabilities. An integrative, intrusive model of academic advising is defined, its benefits are outlined, and several successful…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
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Margolis, Howard; Truesdell, Lee Ann – Urban Review, 1987
A survey of teachers' attitudes over the use of individual education programs (IEPs) for handicapped children revealed that they viewed the IEP more as a legal requirement than as an important guide for planning instruction. Few helped develop their students' IEPs. Recommendations for increasing teacher involvement in IEP are presented.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Disabilities, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Committee for Economic Development, New York, NY. – 1982
At a time of high unemployment and increasingly constrained public resources, more and more attention is being focused on how to further the private sector's involvement in expanding opportunities for individuals, especially the hard-to-employ, to obtain long-term productive employment. Although at least 12 pieces of federal legislation that…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Responsibility, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Feldt, Glenda D. – 1993
When legislation extended vocational assessment services to limited English proficient and economically/educationally disadvantaged students, which comprise 72 percent of grade 8-12 students in Norfolk (Virginia) Public Schools, innovations were needed to offer expanded services without additional personnel. A multiphase model of vocational…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1981
This description of federal compensatory education programs for the economically disadvantaged was prepared for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's review of national education policies. As background, the report first describes the U.S. educational system, the social and educational changes since 1954 that gave rise to…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Canadian Council of Ministers of Education, Toronto (Ontario). – 1987
This statement of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, reflects the provincial ministers' concern with ensuring that opportunities for participation in Canada's postsecondary institutions are available to those who can benefit from them, and in particular to those with special needs. An introductory section notes the growth of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, College Programs, College Students
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1988
This guide was developed to help vocational home economics teachers in Texas incorporate the essential elements mandated by the State Board of Education into the curriculum. The guide contains advice to teachers in the following 10 areas: program planning; curriculum; teaching basic academic skills in vocational home economics classes; supervised…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education, Course Content, Daily Living Skills
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1992
This report reviews approaches that federal, state, and local governments have used to integrate the delivery of health and other educational and social services to at-risk families, and examines barriers to designing and implementing integrated service delivery systems. The report contrasts "system-oriented" integration efforts, which…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Change, Change Strategies, Child Welfare
Bromfield, Sandra; Kilmurray, James A. – 1980
This guide is intended to help teachers, counselors, and other vocational educators to develop programs that increase access to vocational opportunities for females, minorities, disadvantaged, handicapped students, and students with special needs of limited English proficiency in Massachusetts. The guide is divided into four parts. Part 1,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights Legislation, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Denniston, Denie; And Others – 1980
Divided into three chapters, this resource guide provides strategies and examples to assist the vocational education teacher working with disadvantaged, handicapped, and limited-English-proficiency students in secondary or postsecondary vocational education programs. Chapter 1 defines special needs students, lists their characteristics, and…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Coordination, Disabilities, Economically Disadvantaged
Nacson, Jacques; Kelly, Ella Mizzell – 1980
A study was conducted to identify the vocational education needs of special populations and to describe the strategies used to meet the needs by public schools, community colleges, and community organizations. The case study method was used to collect data in 15 communities concerning the academically disadvantaged, the handicapped, the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Colleges, Community Organizations, Coordination
Dugger, William E., Jr.; And Others – 1981
This guide contains information for use in modifying industrial arts programs to serve special needs students. Listed first are a series of standards pertaining to special needs students in industrial arts programs. Following a discussion of serving students with special needs in industrial arts, guidelines are set forth for identifying special…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Lukas, Carol VanDeusen – 1981
This report on the impact of the Vocational Education ACT (VEA) on special needs populations in vocational education examines the structure of the VEA, the state and local contexts in which the law is implemented, and the problems of serving special populations that the mechanisms are attempting to address. Outlined first are the goals and role of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Role, Data Collection, Definitions
Kearns, Donna; And Others – 1993
This manual contains basic information to guide vocational counselors for special populations as they work with students enrolled in vocational programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels. It begins with a brief overview of the role of the vocational counselor for special populations. The survey, the responses to which formed the basis of…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Career Counseling, Career Development, Coordination
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1984
This catalog lists exemplary field-based program improvement products identified by the Dissemination and Utilization Products and Services Program (D&U) at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. It is designed to increase awareness of these products among vocational educators and to provide information about them that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Guidance
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