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Wulfsohn, Samantha; Gaubert, Jennifer Miller – MDRC, 2019
Program managers frequently put staff training near the top of their lists of ongoing challenges. The mix of diverse, complex training needs in many programs means managers may be responsible for orienting new staff, implementing new administrative procedures, or facilitating steps toward long-term program improvement. The greatest underlying…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Needs, Program Improvement, Barriers
Jenkins, Davis; Lahr, Hana; Fink, John; Ganga, Elizabeth – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018
Guided pathways reforms can take several years to implement at scale because they require a thoroughgoing redesign of a college's major functions, including: (1) organizing programs into career-focused meta-majors to enhance student recruitment and exploration and program improvement; (2) mapping clear paths to degrees, employment, and further…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Administration, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Hoffman, Lee McGraw – 1984
A case study approach was used to evaluate the statewide reading improvement project in Louisiana called Special Plan Upgrading Reading (SPUR). SPUR emphasized a change agent approach by providing Technical Assistants and small stipends (approximately $5,000) to participating school districts. During the first two years of the evaluation,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Data Collection, Educational Change
National Association of State Directors of Vocational Education. – 1968
A leadership development seminar for State Directors of Vocational Education was held in Columbus, Ohio on August 6-9, 1968 to provide inservice training for stronger and more effective vocational programs in each state. Each State Director was asked to contribute a one-page report of some special program activity or new innovation to share with…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Pierce, William F. – 1988
The Federal Government has been funding state- and locally operated adult literacy programs for nearly 25 years. Unfortunately, despite the best intentions and efforts, the federal initiative in adult literacy has been minimal, inefficient, and ineffective. There has been no consistent federal policy guiding the growth of programs since 1965.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Sacheti, A. K.; Ray, S. – 1986
Since India gained its independence in 1947, three important commissions have examined the issue of educational reform. The first (in 1948) recommended a vocational emphasis in the intermediate (predegree) courses without sacrificing emphasis on preparation for university education. In 1954, the Secondary Education Commission resulted in the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational History
Rice, Dick Conrad – 1966
The central purpose of this study was to identify the role of state field supervision of vocational education in Ohio in relation to change as perceived by supervisors and their reference groups. The primary task was accomplished in part by testing the following hypotheses: (1) The supervisors' reference groups differ in their perception of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Agents, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Change
Lakin, K. Charlie; And Others – 1990
The second of five volumes of a report on instructional programs for handicapped children and youth in day and residential facilities, this document describes methodologies and results of the first of four components of the study, a national survey of separate facilities for handicapped children and youth which yielded responses from 1,315 day…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Day Programs, Disabilities, Educational Change
National Council for Agricultural Education, Alexandria, VA. – 1994
Representatives of 11 organizations playing a leading role in agricultural education (AE) attended a conference to discuss their vision of AE in the year 2000. During the conference, the issues of greatest concern to AE were prioritized, specific strategies/solutions to accomplish each priority were identified, an action plan to achieve desired…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Change Strategies, Conferences
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1995
Research conducted by the General Accounting Office (GAO) indicates that the current system of multiple employment training programs requires major overhaul to reduce costs, streamline the bureaucracy, and improve results. The current system of 163 different federal employment training programs wastes resources and confuses and frustrates clients,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Change Strategies
Turnbull, Brenda J.; And Others – 1992
A study was done of the state level perspective on Chapter 1 program implementation under the 1988 amendments to the Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Act. In 1991-92, the study surveyed 50 out of 53 Chapter 1 coordinators in state education agencies (SEAs) whose offices are responsible for communicating the law's provisions to school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Shields, Patrick M.; Anderson, Lee – 1991
This study examines cases of overlap between federal Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 programs as reauthorized in the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvements Amendments of 1988. Both chapters emphasize the creation of more effective schools through similar approaches. The study sample includes three states (Connecticut, Arkansas, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Coordination, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Bugarin, Alicia – 1995
This document presents the findings of a review of federal and state job training programs and governance structures in California that was commissioned to identify options for restructuring California's work force preparation policy and governance of the state's system of work force preparation programs through vocational education, job training,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Education Work Relationship
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1975
The Title III program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act called PACE (Projects to Advance Creativity in Education), is designed to encourage school districts to develop imaginative solutions to educational problems; to utilize research findings more effectively; and to create, design and make intelligent use of supplementary centers and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Scottish Education Dept., Edinburgh. – 1975
The report examines the present position of adult education in Scotland, its future aims, and how these aims might be achieved. Following a summary of 66 recommendations by the committee, 13 chapters, divided into two sections, present: (1) definitions of terms; (2) an historical review, from the seventeenth century to the present; (3) present…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Community Education
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