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Pettit, Trina – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
Recent legislative efforts have been aimed at increasing the accountability of schools to meet the educational needs and improve outcomes for students. States and districts across the nation have responded differently. One emerging pattern has been the rise in alternative schools which address the educational needs of students unsuccessful in…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Networks, Accountability, Educational Improvement
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Alexander, Jackson C.; Rucker, K. Jill; Graham, Donna L.; Miller, Jefferson D.; Apple, Jason K. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
This study characterized perceptions of agricultural leadership programs in colleges of agriculture, food, life, human, or environmental sciences at 1,862 land-grant institutions. Objectives included describing the need for programs, studying evolution within the discipline, discussing faculty recommendations for future development, and examining…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Agricultural Education, Leadership Training, Agricultural Colleges
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Kube, Connie; Dempsey, Sarah J.; Pohlman, Charles – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
Educational, industry, and state leaders worked together to design a program to meet the training needs of Nebraska's fast-growing ethanol industry. The statewide initiative, guided by Northeast Community College and funded through the President's Community-Based Job Training Grants program, is developing dual-credit, short-term training that…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Fuels, Industry, Job Training
Bransford, Jim; Chavez, Rodolfo L. – 1988
This study attempted to identify the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that parents of children in bilingual education programs believe are important for them to play a meaningful role in their children's education. Parent training models, some created specifically for use with language minority parents, have not resulted in increased parent…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Needs, Mail Surveys, Parent Attitudes
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Eggland, Steven A. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1976
Answers to the questions of (1) whether more middle management programs in distributive education should be developed, (2) what specialized programs in distributive education should be developed and implemented in Nebraska's postsecondary schools, and (3) in what order they should be developed and implemented are suggested in the study. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Distributive Education, Educational Needs, Educational Programs
Dillon, Roy D.; Horner, James T. – 1967
To determine competencies and activities used by workers in a cross section of the statewide labor force, data were obtained from a random sample of 1,500 employed persons drawn from 14 purposively selected index counties in Nebraska. An interview-questionnaire procedure yielded an 87.7 percent response to a checklist of 144 activities, duties,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Employers, Employment Qualifications
Nebraska Univ., Lincoln. Bureau of Educational Research and Field Services. – 1974
A comprehensive, four-phase study was undertaken of cooperative education for the Mid-Plains Nebraska Technical Community College area. Specific procedures and methodology utilized, and presentation and interpretation of data, are included in the chapters describing each phase of the study. Phase one included (1) a comprehensive review of the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Educational Programs
Viterna, Larry L. – 1971
Designed as a survey of 124 Nebraska public schools offering vocational agriculture, the primary purpose of this study was to obtain opinions of school administrators regarding selected aspects of the vocational agriculture program. A secondary purpose of the study was to present these opinions in a form useful to state and local supervisors of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education