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Kasprzak, Christina; Hurth, Joicey; Rooney, Robin; Goode, Susan E.; Danaher, Joan C.; Whaley, Kathy T.; Ringwalt, Sharon S.; Cate, Debbie – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2012
Since the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), there has been a growing focus on improving the quality of programs for children with disabilities and measuring the results/outcomes of those programs. Across the country, IDEA Part C Programs for Infants and Toddlers and IDEA Part B, Section 619 Preschool…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Accountability
Lake, Robin; Gross, Betheny; Denice, Patrick – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2012
Responding to concerns that charter schools do not provide equal access to students with disabilities, advocates in districts, states, and courts across the country have sought to improve such access. Adding to these concerns, the U.S. Government Accountability Office recently released a report showing that charter schools, on average, serve a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, Enrollment Influences
Brown, James M.; Johnson, David R. – 1986
Programs to aid disadvantaged youth in making the transition from school to work are often lacking or underdeveloped. As a result, many disadvantaged youth become unemployed, and more than half of disabled adults are unemployed. The Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act contains provisions for vocational services for special populations. This…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2003
The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Education Reform held a hearing on March 13, 2003, to hear testimony on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This booklet contains the minutes of the hearing. The hearing focused on how IDEA could be improved and on pre-referral intervention. The booklet is divided into the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1993
This planning guide presents an interdisciplinary team approach for improving career and vocational programs for youths with disabilities. The approach is an interdisciplinary planning process that involves identifying those things desired for students (best practices) and then working to integrate those things within the current continuum of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disabilities, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Tschantz, Jennifer – 2002
This report provides information about state monitoring practices on the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part C program that provides early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities. The findings reported summarize responses from 10 states with a variety of Part C lead agencies. In five…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
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Whetstone, Patti; Abell, Michael; Collins, Belva C.; Kleinert, Harold L. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2013
Teachers of students with moderate and severe disabilities must possess the skills and knowledge to address a unique set of needs and challenges. These may include, but are not limited to, management of challenging behaviors, performance of health-related procedures, use of assistive technology, and instruction using evidence-based strategies.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Higher Education, State Standards, Educational Technology
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Halpern, Andrew S.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1992
The Community Transition Team Model guides the process of systematic program change in secondary special education and transition programs in Oregon. The model uses a management-by-objectives paradigm for implementing its principles, which include local control, a developmental perspective on change, a focus on program capacity, and networking…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Community Programs, Disabilities
Sheppard, N. Alan – 1984
This country has few highly qualified personnel to fulfill the various state commitments to legislation mandating effective vocational programs for two special populations, i.e., persons discriminated against on the basis of racial/ethnic identity and the physically handicapped. The result of a lack of national policy in this area has been a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
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
Muraskin, Lana D. – 1989
The National Assessment of Vocational Education (NAVE) examined how the federal law was implemented and federal funds were distributed under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Data were reported on targeting of resources among and within states and on the uses of federal funds, and implications were drawn from the findings. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Stephens, Susan A.; And Others – 1990
The third of five volumes of a study of instructional programs for handicapped children and youth in separate day care and residential facilities, this document presents the results of an analysis of State education agency (SEA) procedures and the impact of these procedures on special education services and practices within the targeted…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Day Programs, Disabilities, Educational Change
Stephens, Susan A.; And Others – 1990
The purpose of this study was to carry out the mandate of the Education of the Handicapped Amendments of 1983 and 1986 which called for an analysis and evaluation of the effectiveness of procedures undertaken by state education agencies, local education agencies, and intermediate educational units to improve programs of instruction for handicapped…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Day Programs, Disabilities
D'Cruz, J. V. – 1990
Consultations with and written submissions from practitioners and administrators provided the basis for this overview of adult basic education in Victoria, Australia. Based on the findings, recommendations were formulated to allocate new funds to improve programing. The recommendations center on these issues: (1) the need for greater understanding…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
Temple, Joanne – 1991
A study followed up 27 disadvantaged adult students (13 by interviews and student and tutor questionnaires, 12 by tutor questionnaires, and 2 by student and tutor questionnaires) who were identified as "ready to move on" from their adult basic education (ABE) program at Hackney Adult Education Institute and Hackney Reading Centre…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Case Studies
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