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Direct linkPlotner, Anthony J.; Simonsen, Monica L. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine 41 secondary transition-focused personnel preparation projects funded between 2001 and 2016. Specifically, this study examined the amount and characteristics of these projects through a systematic abstract review. In addition, authors explored key issues in federally funded transition-focused personnel…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Transitional Programs, Telephone Surveys, Interviews
Demirci, Ersin – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The High School Aerospace Scholars (HAS) program is an out-of-school-time (OST) science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program that aims to encourage and inspire Texas high school students to pursue STEM degrees and careers. The program gives Texas high school juniors the opportunity to participate in an interactive online…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, STEM Education, High School Students, 21st Century Skills
Download full textNational Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Grants, Federal Aid
Max, Jeffrey; Constantine, Jill; Wellington, Alison; Hallgren, Kristin; Glazerman, Steven; Chiang, Hanley; Speroni, Cecilia – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Grants, Federal Aid
Max, Jeffrey; Constantine, Jill; Wellington, Alison; Hallgren, Kristin; Glazerman, Steven; Chiang, Hanley; Speroni, Cecilia – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Grants, Federal Aid
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2011
Federal officials plan to overhaul the reporting requirements for higher education-based teacher preparation in favor of leaner, outcome-based indicators of program quality, according to plans outlined in the president's fiscal 2012 budget request. To bolster the overhaul, the budget also proposes a $185 million new formula grant program, dubbed…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Accountability
McMurrer, Jennifer; McIntosh, Shelby – Center on Education Policy, 2012
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package, appropriated $100 billion for education and included $3 billion for school improvement grants (SIGs) to help reform low-performing schools. This amount was in addition to the $546 million provided by the regular fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Educational Change, State Departments of Education
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1993
A number of findings and recommendations regarding the mission of Private Industry Councils (PICs) under the Job Training Partnership ACT (JTPA) were developed based on information collected in several ways: a focus group of PICs, roundtable discussions held nationwide with staff from nearly 100 PICs in 45 states, and canvasses of more than 200…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Institutional Mission
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
This document reports oral and written testimony given at hearings by witnesses concerning House Bill (H.B.) 2039, the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Amendments of 1989, and related proposals. The proposed legislation is designed to correct shortcomings in JTPA and to redirect focus to the hard to serve; and provide more intensive services…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Syracuse Univ., NY. Center on Human Policy. – 1997
This collection of papers on managed care and long-term supports for people with developmental disabilities includes a range of reprinted articles and resource materials that provide different kinds of information and opinions on the impact of managed care. Articles include: "A Position Statement on Managed Care and Long-Term Supports in…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Developmental Disabilities, Federal Programs
Merrifield, Juliet; And Others – 1991
A case study was done on the effects of training programs sponsored by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) on 835 women textile workers dislocated by a plant closing in Blount County, Tennessee. Data were gathered by former workers through structured interviews with 100 women typical by age (about 45-years-old) and length of service (14-16…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Females
Mediax Associates, Inc., Westport, CT. – 1978
This evaluation of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) Program in the District of Columbia public schools addresses four general issues: (1) the extent to which the program was implemented as planned; (2) the extent of participation by identified target populations; (3) assessments of the program by participating professional and other adult…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Cultural Isolation, Economically Disadvantaged
Briney, Margorie; Long, James S. – 1985
This 1984 study (1) estimated the more enduring benefits of a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prevocational program for those who completed the program in 1979; and (2) identified the features of the CETA program that completers recalled as having contributed to these benefits. The 18-week CETA prevocational program was offered by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Benefits
Scott, Elois Skeen – 1979
Included in this report are the questions that were asked of math and reading teachers, generalists, aides, and principals during the course of the evaluation, general observations made by the evaluator, and a discussion of observations and recommendations made by both the Title I staff and the evaluator. Each discussion focuses on the respective…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Programs
Main, Earl D. – 1966
To learn what effects Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional job training courses had on income and employment, a nationwide representative sample of about 1,200 former trainees (784 completers and 413 dropouts) were interviewed early in 1966--over a year after their job training--to learn their opinions of the programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Employer Attitudes
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