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Weldy, Gilbert R. – NASSP Bulletin, 1990
"Strengthening School Transitions for Students K-13," conceived and sponsored by NASSP and other organizations, was a project helping seven demonstration school districts address student transition problems. This article summarizes program accomplishments, critical transition points, and keys to success and describes each demonstration…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Alliance: The Newsletter of the National Transition Alliance, 1996
This theme issue provides four articles that address family involvement in the transition of youth with disabilities from school to work. The first article, "Family Involvement" by Marge Goldberg and Shauna McDonald, offers evidence of the importance of family involvement at this stage of the individual's life, reports on families' experiences,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Weldy, Gilbert R., Ed. – 1991
This demonstration project sought, over a period of 3 years, to improve students' school achievement by strengthening the transitions that students make during their years of schooling K-13. These troublesome transition points, generally acknowledged to be home to school, elementary to middle school or junior high, middle level school to high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement
Grayson, Thomas E.; And Others – 1993
This directory contains project profiles and summaries of current and newly expired projects funded under the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Secondary Education and Transition Initiative. Most of the information is based on a 1993 survey of project directors and project competition data. The compendium is divided into…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Thousand, Jacqueline S.; And Others – 1986
The report describes the first 3 years of the Homecoming Project, which was designed to return disabled students in regional special education programs to regular classes in 26 local Vermont schools. Fifty-eight such students (of whom 45% were moderately or severely handicapped) were transitioned into regular classes and 19 other students at risk…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Ryan, Amy K. – 2001
This document describes seven projects based on research-based strategies to educate students with emotional and/or behavioral problems and prevent their dropping out of high school. An introduction notes that all the projects focus on forming new connections using multi-pronged approaches to meet individual students' basic emotional and social…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention, Education Work Relationship
Jameson, Devi – 1988
California's Education Transition Center has developed a network of exemplary collaborative transition programs which agree to provide site visitors with information about school, community, and private programs that can improve school-to-adult-life transition services for "at risk" students. This document contains guidelines prepared to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities

Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1987
Profiles three program awards for exemplary rural special education practices. Describes an Arizona program that allows teachers to pursue advanced training without quitting their jobs, an Idaho program of work experience and transitional services for special education students, and a Virginia program for normalization of students labeled…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Mainstreaming
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Bureau of Special Education. – 1999
This executive summary of a final report describes activities and accomplishments of Iowa's 3-year program to improve the quality of educational and community-based services for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with deaf-blindness. The project provided technical assistance to schools, area education agencies, and other service providers. It…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Consultation Programs, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems
Lewis, Margaret; And Others – 1992
This document describes eight models of local and state special education efforts that are providing viable ways for parents to become more involved in their children's education. The models are designed to develop effective two-way communication and collaboration between parents and teachers, develop methods for parents to actively support their…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Communication
Naylor, Michele – 1985
Vocational education, special education, and vocational rehabilitation are the three primary providers of school-to-work transition services to handicapped youth. Each of these three sectors has a vital role to play in the following aspects of transition services: identification, assessment, individualized program planning, program implementation…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Delivery Systems

Ash, Paul, Ed. – Indiana Federation Council for Exceptional Children Newsletter, 1987
This newsletter presents a list of 248 special education curriculum guides, identified as exemplary through the National Special Education Curricula Survey, a national service project of the Indiana Department of Education. The survey was sent to personnel at state departments of education, universities, schools, community agencies, and special…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Education, Career Education, Curriculum Guides
1996
This collection of papers presented at a 1996 conference on children's mental health focuses on models to improve service delivery. Papers have the following titles and authors: (1) "Empirical Evaluation of an Alternative to Hospitalization for Youth Presenting Psychiatric Emergencies" (Scott W. Henggeler); (2) "An Experimental Study of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Children, Crisis Intervention
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 2000
This document is intended to help practitioners plan and implement activities for observance of Career Development Month in Illinois. Part 1 examines the following topics: the definitions of career development and education-to-careers; the rationale for devoting a month to career development; a career framework; and suggested Career Development…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies, Articulation (Education), Career Development