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Anamarie A. Whitaker; Margaret Burchinal; Jade M. Jenkins; Drew H. Bailey; Tyler W. Watts; Greg J. Duncan; Emma R. Hart; Ellen Peisner-Feinberg – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
High-quality preschool programs are heralded as an effective policy tool to promote the development and life-long wellbeing of children from low-income families. Yet evaluations of recent preschool programs produce puzzling findings, including negative impacts, and divergent, weaker results than were shown in demonstration programs implemented in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Educational Research
Gross, Susan; And Others – 1976
An investigation of the activities of the state Right to Read Programs during the periods from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1974 is provided in this volume. In order to determine the effects of the programs at the state and local educational-agency levels, data were obtained from visits to the 31 state departments of education involved and to…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Administration
Catalani, Anne Ramundo – 1972
This study was designed to discover the extent to which school districts provided inservice education for their secondary school teachers of English from the fall of 1969 through the 1971-72 academic year, to determine if inservice consisted of continuous, process-oriented growth experiences structured primarily to benefit the teaching of English…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Programs, Educational Research, English
Evans, Rupert – 1976
Half of this paper is the text of a lecture, based on the author's involvement in a study by the Committee on Vocational Education Research and Development (R & D). Focus is on the summary of the study's recommendations in three areas: (1) Administration of vocational education R & D, (2) the content of vocational education R & D, and (3) the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Research, Interviews, Needs Assessment
Budke, Wesley E. – 1983
Drawing upon a database of state-administered vocational education program improvement projects, a study examined state-administered programs to improve vocational education that were implemented from fiscal 1978 through fiscal 1982. After analyzing abstracts of 3,994 research, exemplary and innovative, and curriculum development activities,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Curriculum Development, Databases, Educational Research
HAWKES, CAROL – 1967
A STUDY OF MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMS WAS CONDUCTED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING SUCH A PROGRAM AT FINCH COLLEGE. THE NEED FOR PROGRAMS ON THE GRADUATE LEVEL, TYPES OF MASTER'S DEGREES OFFERED, AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND STANDARDS ARE DISCUSSED IN PART ONE. PART TWO, "PROGRAMS IN OPERATION," DESCRIBES IN…
Descriptors: College Administration, Degree Requirements, Degrees (Academic), Educational Needs
Grabowski, Stanley M., Ed. – 1971
An annotated bibliography, this publication includes 578 items of research or investigation in adult education, most of which are dated 1970 or 1971. They cover adult learning characteristics, program planning and administration, learning environments, instructional methods, curriculum materials and instructional devices, personnel and staffing,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Environment
Turner, Trevor; Persaud, Ganga – 1980
This case study reports results of research on the extent of nonformal education in Guyana; comparison of commitment in private and public enterprises; and financial support, program organization and management, learners' background and objectives, content and methodology, and evaluation strategy. The first two chapters describe the study's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis