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Download full textGeorgetown Univ. Law Center, Washington, DC. Inst. of Criminal Law and Procedure. – 1975
The Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure analyzes the merits, limitiations, and problems of various approaches to prison industry and recommends measures and programs to improve industries. Federal and State legislation affecting prison industries were examined, several prison industries were visited, and the literature of prison industries was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Federal Legislation
Educational Research Services, Inc., White Plains, NY. – 1968
Evaluated is an educational program, funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, as a rehabilitative school for delinquent adolescent girls in Baltimore, Maryland. Both the regular school year and the summer programs are directed toward development of ability to adjust in society. The school offers an academic curriculum as well…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adolescents, Business Education, Catholic Schools
Educational Research Services, Inc., White Plains, NY. – 1968
Evaluated is the third year of an Elementary Basic Skills Program in Baltimore, Maryland, public schools, a project funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I. The aims of this compensatory and enrichment effort are discussed and the components of the project are described. Findings are presented separately for the 1967-68…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools
VanLandeghem, Karen – 2003
The Illinois Children's Mental Health Task Force was convened in 2002 to assess the status of Illinois' mental health system for children from birth to age 18, and to develop short- and long-term recommendations for assuring that all Illinois children have access to coordinated and comprehensive mental health services and programs. This report is…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Childhood Needs
Arizona State Dept. of Education, Phoenix. – 1997
This book provides 35 profiles that are a small sampling of the successful strategies, environments, and activities taking place within the school-to-work/vocational-technical education arena in Arizona. The profiles describe a variety of successful strategies. They include many types of activities serving a number of populations. They also…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Kansas Action for Children, Inc., Topeka. – 2001
In 1996, Kansas launched the nation's most sweeping attempt to radically transform the child welfare system by implementing a privatized form of managed care. Four years later, the child welfare system shows signs of instability and seems very much in transition. This report examines the current status of the child welfare system in Kansas and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Children, Cost Effectiveness
Campbell, Nancy Duff; Appelbaum, Judith C.; Martinson, Karin; Martin, Emily – 2000
In response to increasing demands for military child care and lack of comprehensive care standards, the Military Child Care Act of 1989 (MCCA) mandated improvements in military child care. Today, the Department of Defense runs a model child care system serving over 200,000 children daily at over 300 locations worldwide. Noting that most of the…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Change Strategies, Child Development Centers, Day Care
Drier, Harry N.; Bebris, John – 1989
This report documents and highlights the effects of the career guidance section of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act in the State of Ohio during the 1988-89 fiscal year. The report asserts that Ohio has more than met the intent of the federal law in terms of the student outcomes achieved, improved career guidance program delivery, cost…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Community Programs, Compliance (Legal), Federal Legislation
Smith-Dickson, Bonnie, Ed.; Hutinger, Patricia, Ed. – 1982
Addressing the lack of cooperation between early intervention programs and the rural health community, this monograph presents eight papers by educators and health professionals who identify specific problems and offer solutions in the form of effective collaboration techniques and model programs. Papers by Susan Hastings and Stewart Gabel…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Attitudes, Community Health Services, Community Resources
Roberts, Charles V. – 1983
Typically, efforts by English, speech, and developmental reading departments to make students "complete communicators" have been confined to one or two basic skills courses giving unsuccessful "one-shot" inoculations in the theory and practice of one of the communication competencies. As such communication is not taught in the context of the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Communication Skills, Content Area Writing, Curriculum Design
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1982
This paper lists guidelines approved by the Illinois State Board of Education for improving alcohol and drug education in the schools. Statistics point out the seriousness of alcohol and drug abuse in terms of human costs to the victim, his/her family, and associates, and the economic costs of health care, accident losses, crime, social programs,…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Delinquency Prevention, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
O'Connor, Patrick J. – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
This bulletin describes two exemplary mathematics programs in Oregon: the Math Lab at Mountain View Junior High School in Beaverton and the Academy Math Program at Jefferson High School in northeastern Portland. The Math Lab at Mountain View is a weekly supplemental unit that is integrated into general math and pre-algebra courses for seventh and…
Descriptors: Business Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, High Risk Students, Mathematics Curriculum
Budke, Wesley E., Comp.; And Others – Resources in Vocational Education, 1981
The approximately 700 resumes contained in this report cover research projects, exemplary and innovative projects, and curriculum development projects administered by state departments of education through research coordinating units (RCUs) from July 1, 1979, to June 30, 1980 (fiscal year 1980). The projects are funded under Sections 131, 132, and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Educational Research
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1976
Seven Wisconsin school districts formed a consortium to improve district level implementation of career education, K-12. Each district developed assessment and/or evaluation instruments to meet their specific needs, and circulated these instruments among all seven districts for review and feedback. After revision and field testing, these…
Descriptors: Career Education, Consortia, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Warner, Thomas R. – 1979
A project was conducted to strengthen the existing occupational guidance program in the St. Bernard Parish middle and high schools in Chalmette, Louisiana. Eight externship counselors were placed into a rotating externship with key businesses, industries, and trades within the surrounding communities so that a closer partnership could be…
Descriptors: Business, Career Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Attitudes
