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Download full textNORDSCI, 2023
This volume includes four sections of the 2023 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Business and Management; (2) Education and Educational Research; (3) Political Science; and (4) Sociology and Healthcare. Business and Management includes 6 papers covering business, including management and organizational studies, business law, and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), International Programs, Business Administration Education, Education
National Indian Education Association, 2012
This volume contains advocacy briefing papers presented at the 15th Annual National Indian Education Association (NIEA) Legislative Summit held February 15-15, 2012 in Washington, DC. The following papers are included: (1) Become a Powerful Advocate; (2) NIEA Legislative Priority for 2012: Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education…
Descriptors: Student Records, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Pilot Projects
Harmon, Hobart L.; Smith, Keith – Edvantia (NJ1), 2009
As a follow-up to a 2007 Edvantia, Inc. report entitled "A Legacy of Leadership and Lessons Learned: Results of the Rural Systemic Initiatives for Improving Mathematics and Science Education," (ED531892) Edvantia, Inc. sought and received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to hold a forum in the nation's capital that…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Science Education, Mathematics Education
Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, University Park, PA. – 1996
Pathways from Poverty is a public policy education and research initiative organized by the Rural Sociological Society's Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty and the four regional rural development centers. This publication focuses on project efforts in the Northeast and includes three sections. The first section describes the Pathways from…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Education, Community Services, Educational Opportunities
Ginn, Linda – 1990
This paper describes a summer institute on poverty offered for graduate degree credit through Western Carolina University. The institute targeted western North Carolina educators by inviting 18 regional school districts to sponsor one participant each. Speaker and seminar topics centered on the nature of poverty, its pervasiveness, its…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Ooms, Theodora – 1992
This document begins with highlights of a seminar meeting held in July of 1992 on poverty in America, followed by a background briefing report on the problem of poverty in the United States. This background briefing report is the first in a series of three reports. It summarizes some major themes of the vast and growing body of poverty literature,…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Family Life, Low Income Groups
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce, Ed.; Stambaugh, Tamra, Ed. – National Association for Gifted Children (NJ1), 2007
This monograph brings together the work of national stakeholders in gifted education and beyond gifted education on the critical issue of child poverty among students who show academic and intellectual promise for positive contributions in various areas of study. It has been compiled in order to provide the field of gifted education with a…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Leadership, Talent Development, Poverty
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. – 1985
This document contains hearings on the oversight of the Census Bureau. The Hon. Robert Garcia (chairman of the subcommittee) presided. The statement of the Hon. Robert T. Matsui, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, indicated a concern regarding what definition should be used to reflect accurately the extent of poverty in…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Hearings
Castle, Emery, Ed.; Baldwin, Barbara, Ed. – 1989
The National Rural Studies Committee seeks to identify important rural problems and encourage scholarly work on such problems. This annual meeting focused on the relationships between rural poverty and race relations and between rural and urban problems. Individual papers are: (1) "The Rural South as Seen by a Historical Geographer," by…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Labor Force Development
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1979
This report contains the proceedings of a 1978 meeting held in Kathmandu, Nepal to examine major problems and aspirations of Asian youth. Thirty three people from 18 countries participated. There are three parts to the report. Part I summarizes the six main themes of the meeting. They are: concept of youth as viewed by Asian cultures; concepts and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Poverty
Wattenberg, Esther, Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers presents the proceedings of a June 2000 conference that examined the concept of social justice and determined what elements of social justice could help set an agenda for the child welfare system in the new century. The conference proceedings include: "Introduction: Historical Highlights" (Esther Wattenberg);…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Minority Groups
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Conches (Switzerland). – 1991
The symposium examined the impact of poverty and environmental degradation on women and children and assessed women's real and potential contributions to sustainable development through their knowledge of natural resources. Participants included experts and resource people involved in grassroots activities throughout the world. This report…
Descriptors: Children, Conservation (Environment), Demography, Energy Conservation
Sharp, Peggy, Ed.; Turney, Michael, Ed. – 1984
The conference proceedings in this document include edited transcripts of the plenary sessions and individual reports on each of the 10 workshops from Iowa's Children in Jeopardy Conference. The conference was held, not for professional children's services workers, but for people with civic commitment and the ability to involve themselves and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children, Drug Abuse
State Univ. of New York, Ithaca. Coll. of Human Ecology at Cornell Univ. – 2002
Presented in English and Spanish, this publication compiles 13 presentations at a conference celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Cornell Migrant Program. The entries examine experiences of migrant workers and children related to immigrating, finding work, enduring discrimination and police harassment, switching schools frequently, suffering…
Descriptors: Activism, Agribusiness, Community Change, Immigration
Ezpeleta, Justa, Comp.; Furlan, Alfredo, Comp. – 1992
This book on educational management, is a collection of works that were presented at a 1991 international seminar. The papers are divided into three sections. The first section, the management in the crossroads of our time, contains three articles: (1) "Development Strategies and Education" (Juan Carlos Tedesco); (2) "Educational…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Educational Planning
