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Download full textRegional Resource Center Program, 2011
This brief is intended to provide State Education Agency (SEA) and Local Education Agency (LEA) educators with a brief overview of key components of GraduateFIRST, a Georgia program targeting issues impacting school completion for students with disabilities. Georgia's GraduateFIRST program has redefined the state's approach to raising graduation…
Descriptors: Disabilities, School Readiness, Technical Assistance, Individualized Education Programs
Peer reviewedRabinowitz, Howard K. – Academic Medicine, 1992
A popular required family medicine clerkship at Jefferson Medical College (Pennsylvania) suggests that ambulatory care can be taught as a core component of the clinical curriculum. Success requires strong institutional support, structured curriculum, adequate patients, dedicated faculty, sufficient training sites, an appropriate evaluation…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Curriculum Design, Family Practice (Medicine), Financial Support
Direct linkKaroly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2009
Facing mounting evidence that California has fallen behind on many key indicators of educational performance, policymakers and the public share considerable interest in exploring whether California should expand public funding for preschool education. This expanded funding will be most effective if resources can be directed to their most efficient…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Education, Educational Objectives, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewedThomson, William A.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
A follow-up study of 951 graduates of Houston High School for Health Professions (Texas) raised some concern about the value of counseling services offered, financial barriers to pursuit of health-related careers, and stereotyping and career choice. Overall, the program has succeeded in fostering pursuit of health-related careers. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Counseling Services, Financial Support
Higgins, Catherine; And Others – 1991
This report presents an independent evaluation of E. Lang's I Have a Dream (IHAD) model intervention for disadvantaged youth as it has been implemented in three schools in the Greater Washington (District of Columbia) area. Sixty IHAD participants are randomly selected as they enter sixth or seventh grade for higher education tuition guarantees…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Tucker, G. Richard – Focus, 1980
A comparison of the salient characteristics of Canadian and United States bilingual education programs suggests various settings where it would be desirable to introduce children to schooling in their home language. These settings include: (1) the various ethnic communities in the United States, (2) multilingual developing countries, (3) parts of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 2001
This paper presents New Jersey's standards for the required professional development of teachers as follows: (1) enhances subject content knowledge; (2) improves understanding of learners' academic, social, emotional, and physical needs and ensures that educators utilize appropriate teaching skills to enable students to meet or exceed their…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Collegiality, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Gray, Michael; Peters, Jane; Fletcher, Mick; Kirk, Gordon – 2002
The impact of individual learning accounts (ILAs) on the success of learners in post-16 education sector in the United Kingdom was explored through an examination of available research on ILAs. The following were among the study's 12 messages for providers, the Department for Education and Skills, and the Individual Learning Account Centre: (1)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Programs, Delivery Systems, Educational Finance
Ward, Randolph E.; Burke, Mary Ann – Corwin Press, 2004
As accountability in schools becomes more crucial, educators are looking for comprehensive and innovative management practices that respond to challenges and realities of student academic achievement. In order to improve academic performance and the quality of instruction, the entire school community needs to be involved. This book provides six…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Interpersonal Communication, Educational Indicators, Student Motivation
Dean, Gary J.; Murk, Peter J.; Del Prete, Tony – 2000
This book, which is intended as a resource for individuals and organizations involved in adult and community education, presents guidelines and activities to assist in enhancing organizational effectiveness in adult and community education. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) experiencing professional and organizational development…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Hunt, DeWitt – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
It is believed that superintendents and principals, school board members, teachers, and employers and other lay citizens--in fact, all those persons who help to decide on public-school curriculum have need for a bulletin in which information is made available concerning work experience education programs. They should be informed about selected…
Descriptors: Educational History, High School Students, Junior High School Students, Student Employment
Studebaker, J. W.; Williams, Chester S. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1939
Plans and programs come in response to need. Citizens of our democracy have need of greater opportunities for truth-seeking under competent guidance. The people are hungry for increased understanding of the problems which beset them and their communities. They have a right to expect their institutions of education to give them help in their study…
Descriptors: Educational History, Guides, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
