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Thomas, Hannah; Jefferson, Anna – Abt Associates, 2022
The Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program provided education and occupational training to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients and other adults with low incomes. HPOG training is for healthcare occupations that pay well and may experience labor shortages or be in high demand. This report details common themes…
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Grants, Low Income Groups, Allied Health Occupations Education
Klempin, Serena; Lahr, Hana – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021
Guided pathways reforms are emerging as a promising strategy for improving student outcomes and closing equity gaps at community colleges, but little is known about how the guided pathways approach can help address challenges facing adult students. This report discusses strategies that three Tennessee community colleges that have implemented…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community Colleges, Equal Education, Strategic Planning
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Brown, Goldy, III – Education, 2016
This study investigated leadership supports provided by an elementary principal of 15 years in a high performing diverse school. Employing document analysis and interviews, the researcher gathered and analyzed data in an effort to identify those leadership strategies that could be replicated at other school sites. The study identified the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Correlation, Administrator Role, Academic Achievement
Willoughby, Louisa – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
The heterogeneous backgrounds, languages and proficiencies students bring to the classroom have always been a key challenge facing schools that wish to implement heritage language programmes. In this article I describe the evolution of one high school's approach to heritage language education and some of the roadblocks they encountered in…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Hibbard, Allen – Foreign Language Association of North Dakota (FLAND) News, 1969
A description of the modular scheduling practices in the foreign language programs of the White Bear Lake, Minnesota secondary schools includes information on its general design, advantages, and problems. Following discussions of arrangements for scheduling, student-teacher contact time, classroom activities, more individualized instruction,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Decision Making, Educational Media, Educational Practices
Porter, Carol – 2002
The story of the process that Mundelein High School (located in a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois) as it moved from a traditional schedule to a block schedule is described throughout this book as a way to blend theory with practice. The book addresses types of block schedules; key issues for effective preparation; professional development…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, English Instruction