In January 1993, the Illinois State Board of Higher Education, the Illinois Community College Board, and the Transfer Coordinators of Illinois Colleges and Universities launched the state's Articulation Initiative to develop a model general education curriculum that would be accepted as students transfer between the state's colleges and…

This 1991-94 3-year plan describes proposed use of federal funds available to Wisconsin for the support of vocational and technical education. The first three sections provide an introduction, state board certification, and the table of contents. Section IV describes assessment provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology…

This handbook provides public and private school administrators with guidelines for developing a nonprofit educational foundation. Following an introduction, a statement of rationale describes fundamental approaches and activities. The foundation's primary purpose is aiding schools with additional funding and community service support. Section 2…

This manual is intended to serve independent schools beginning strategic planning methods. Chapter 1, "The Case for Strategic Planning," suggests replacing the term "long range planning" with the term "strategic planning," which emphasizes change. The strategic planning and policy development process begins with…

The establishment of Green River Community College's Education and Training Center as a permanent anchor tenant in the Kent Business Incubator required the college to develop a comprehensive business plan and needs assessment survey. College and community leaders identified the role and services of the educational tenant, leading to the…

This report reviews the collaborative and evaluative efforts of an Arkansas education renewal consortium comprised of two universities and nine school districts. The reform originated from a smaller project that aimed to establish a broad communication base and systematic planning for meeting student needs. The current project, begun in 1985-86,…

This report describes rationale, planning processes/tasks, and evaluation techniques of a 1985 workshop on special education needs of migrant handicapped students and findings and recommendations of workshop participant groups. The workshop was designed to analyze present policies relating to migrant handicapped students, to develop strategies for…

This guide is intended to assist countries contemplating a comprehensive, action-oriented review of health labor force development to improve their national health systems. Various aspects of the health system infrastructure are examined (major components, organizational structure, coordinating mechanisms, sources of information, and…

This guide is intended to stimulate the interest of school administrators and to provide them with the management skills necessary to improve and initiate effective vocational education programs in their communities. It is divided into nine topic areas: introduction, federal legislation, certification, advisory committees, partnerships, promotion,…

Community education can be characterized as a flexible community process for addressing the community's educational needs; it is designed by local residents to meet local needs. This guide presents an overview of community education and offers some ideas for drafting and passing legislation for community education and beginning and carrying out…

This pamphlet deals with the role of vocational education in apprenticeship. Discussed in the first section are the nature and importance of apprenticeship, apprenticeable occupations, and the parties involved in apprenticeship programs. The bulk of the pamphlet describes various services provided by vocational education to apprenticeship…

In this history and analysis of Federal educational projects in the Anacostia area of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1977 the origins and development of the Anacostia Community School Project (1967-72) and its successor, the Response to Educational Needs Project (1972-77) are described. The requirements of implementation studies are…

A review of the literature base on competency-based education (CBE) as it relates to vocational education (competency-based vocational education or CBVE) is presented in this information analysis paper. The following topics are discussed: differences between traditional and competency-based education; growth and breadth of CBVE (including…

Devoted to the role of participation in nonformal education (NFE) activities in enhancing development, this issue consists of an article on participation in NFE activities, descriptions of participatory programs, an annotated bibliography on participation, and a review of various publications related to participation. The lead article, "Can…

Research for Better Schools, Inc., has been working with local education agencies (LEAs), intermediate service agencies (ISAs), and state education agencies (SEAs) to bring about career education impact in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Their strategy includes three essential elements: assist LEAs in planning and implementing career…