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Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. – 1984
In March 1983, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) received $4 million in Federal funds to establish an emergency jobs program as authorized under the Emergency Jobs Act of 1983. Within 90 days, TVA found employment for 493 persons, and, by the end of June 1984, 1,183 persons had been employed by TVA. Of those employed, 14.9 percent were…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Employment Practices, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Farmer, Edgar I. – 1980
This report describes planning, implementation, and evaluation procedures involved in conducting eight regional institutes to provide staff development activities for vocational teachers and counselors. The introduction summarizes project purposes and objectives and general background information on the 256 secondary and postsecondary teachers and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Disadvantaged, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Stephens, Thomas M.; Stanley, Mary – 1995
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a 3-year federally funded project at the Great Lakes Area Regional Center for Deaf Blind Education to provide technical assistance to service providers and families of children with dual sensory impairments in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Individual sections of the report present…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Tippie, John L.; Rice, Eric – 1994
Patterned after a previously successful Laborers-Associated General Contractors model named the Construction Skills Training Program, a demonstration project was implemented at five regional training centers. At least eight courses were created, combined, or revised. Four full-length audiovisual support pieces were completed. Three courses were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Building Trades, Comparative Analysis, Construction Industry
Ohio Board of Regents, Columbus. – 1982
This presentation contains eight summary reports that provide information about major linkage activities initiated by the Ohio Board of Regents between the postsecondary education system and the business and governmental sectors. The regional and statewide activities are divided into two groups by the two phases through which linkage goals are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Conferences, Continuing Education
Finger Lakes Regional Education Center for Economic Development, Mount Morris, NY. – 1987
This guide describes seven model programs that were developed by the Finger Lakes Regional Center for Economic Development (New York) to meet the training needs of female and minority entrepreneurs to help their businesses survive and grow and to assist disabled and dislocated workers and youth in beginning small businesses. The first three models…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Business Administration, Community Colleges, Demonstration Programs
Angelis, Jane, Ed. – 1983
These proceedings consist of papers presented at a conference devoted to educational resource sharing. Included in the volume are the following papers: "Educational Resource Sharing: The Challenge for Illinois" by Lewis D. Patterson; "Resource Sharing: The Test Is Yet to Come," by John W. Huther; "A Response to the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Consortia, Cooperative Planning
Helms, Jenifer – Inverness Research Associates, 2006
In Kentucky, one of the six participating Appalachian Rural Systemic Initiative (ARSI) states, the Teacher Partner concept soon gave rise to the Regional Teacher Partners (RTPs). This complementary project, known as the "Master Teacher Project," was designed after the Teacher Partner model but with one key difference. This paper…
Descriptors: Master Teachers, Profiles, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Horsch, Elizabeth – Inverness Research Associates, 2006
Many of the people who live in Knott County today are direct descendants of the early settlers of the region. Today the people of Knott County share an identity that is grounded in the place they and their ancestors called home. Perhaps the public endeavor in which the influence of place is most evident is education. In Knott County education has…
Descriptors: United States History, Females, Educational Change, Federal Programs