This compilation of short summaries of Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher resources, prepared for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) by the Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC) at American Institutes for Research (AIR), is organized around research questions developed by TEA to inform the Texas GYO teacher strategy. This is meant to be a living document and…

This document presents a compilation of selected Research Connections resources focused on subsidized child care and quality, including a summary of issues addressed in the literature and a listing of resources about the relationships among child care subsidies, program quality, and child outcomes, as well as resources on policy considerations…

This bibliography summarizes recent research on the structure and effectiveness of workforce development programs. While the term "workforce development" can mean many things, this document focuses on programs to help low-skill, low-wage and displaced workers increase their employment and earnings, as well as labor market trends that…

The references provided here give an overview of recent scholarship concerning students, faculty, and curriculum at urban community colleges. Organizational and institutional studies of urban community colleges are also included in this bibliography. The research in this article addresses important issues of student retention, faculty turnover,…

This paper reviews research on parent education programs in which training efforts were focused on low income mothers. Three model strategies for training low income parents are identified: (1) individual consultation, in which a parent consultant works on a one-to-one basis with the parent-child dyad, usually in the home; (2) group consultation,…

This report is intended to provide practitioners and policymakers with a thorough history of efforts to link employment and training programs, community development programs, small business development programs, minority enterprise development programs, and economic development programs. The report contains three sections. Section 1 is an essay on…

The annotated bibliography on early childhood intervention for the culturally different contains approximately 60 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1966 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center…

This report presents a review of the literature and an annotated bibliography of research on the impact of campus diversity initiatives on American college students. First, an executive summary concludes that, overall, the literature suggests that diversity initiatives positively affect both minority and majority students on campus. It…

This publication supplements the first printed index of pamphlet material. It adds several hundred new titles, lists many publishers submitting their materials for the first time, and lists the numbers of pamphlets in Bulletin 1937, No. 3, which are no longer available. It is hoped that as the directors and organizers of forums and discussion…

This bibliography on bilingual education and related subjects includes an extensive collection of materials published between 1970 and 1980 and a limited number of studies dated before 1970. The materials are organized under alphabetically arranged categories and cover a broad range of areas including culture, language, and education among…

The aim of the research review reported here was to draw together empirical findings that illuminate the factors affecting Work Incentive Program (WIN) results and contribute to discussion of future welfare, work-training, and employment policies. (WIN, authorized in 1967, has sought to put people on Aid to Dependent Children (AFDC) to work…

This issue consists of 246 resumes relating to vocational and technical education research and development products and projects. Selections were made from the input of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education as represented in the June through November 1980 "Resources in Education." Topics covered in the resumes…

This publication contains bibliographic data and abstracts of over 350 documents and journal articles on sex equity, bias, and stereotyping reduction that may be found in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database. The document is divided into 16 chapters as follows: equal education and sex stereotypes, equal education and sex…

Last May the Office of Education organized a list of pamphlet material under the title "Public Affairs Pamphlets." While this tabulation was prepared primarily to meet the needs of the 10 public forum demonstrations then organizing programs of public discussion, it was widely used by libraries, forums of all kinds, social science teachers and…