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Hick, Thomas L.; And Others – 1977
As part of a longitudinal study of the New York State Experimental Prekindergarten Program (PreK), several measures were administered to the four-year-old children in the fall of 1975 and to a sample of the same children in the spring of 1976. Analyses of covariance were carried out on three measures of cognitive development with one of five…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests
Bortin, Barbara; And Others – 1982
A followup study assessed the effectiveness of the Milwaukee public high school career specialty programs. A total of 160 program graduates completed surveys in the first, second, and fifth years following high school graduation. Included in the survey were multiple-choice questions pertaining to current educational and employment status, the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Reynolds, William Bradford – 1981
The equal employment opportunity policies of the Reagan administration may be summarized in the following manner: while the administration will not retreat from the historic commitment to enforce federal civil rights laws, it will no longer insist upon, or in any way support, the use of quotas or any numerical or statistical formula designed to…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation
Hanberry, Gerald C.; And Others – 1981
A study analyzed the operations of state education agencies (SEAs) as they promote and develop the concept of community education (CE) in their respective states and assessed the impact of federal support on the capabilities of SEAs to develop their capacities in the community education area. Data were collected from 1001 respondents from the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Community Education
Hanberry, Gerald C.; And Others – 1981
A study analyzed the operation of state education agencies (SEAs) as they promote and develop the concept of community education (CE) in their respective states and assessed the impact of federal support on the capabilities of SEAs to develop their capacities in the community education area. Data were collected from 1001 respondents from the fifty…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Community Education
American Univ., Washington, DC. Adult Learning Potential Inst. – 1980
This document is the first of a series of four developed to provide a comprehensive overview of parent involvement, encompassing the family, parenting needs, and existing resources, in addition to current parent education approaches and practices. This "Overview" is a panoramic scan of Parent involvement programs, including child-rearing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Blacks, Child Rearing
Rosario, Jose; And Others – 1980
This volume is the first of a series reporting evaluation findings on the impact of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC) on institutions, classroom staff, parents and children from the time the children entered Head Start through the first grade. PDC was begun in 1974 with the purpose of ensuring that disadvantaged children receive continuous…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Control Groups, Cooperative Programs
Wulfeck, Wallace H., II; And Others – 1978
This report describes the instructional quality inventory (IQI), which was developed to provide quality control/evaluation procedures for the instructional system development (ISD). The ISD is described as a method used by the military to develop or revise training courses. IQI procedures are detailed in six sections. Section 1 explains the IQI…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Classification, Course Content, Educational Objectives
Highline Public Schools, Seattle, WA. – 1976
The Highline School District (Washington) developed and implemented a special one-year career education project for gifted and talented elementary school students based on three objectives: (1) increased perception of internal control among participating students; (2) increased knowledge of data-people-things categories; and (3) increased career…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Career Awareness, Career Education, Decision Making Skills
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. Div. of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1979
Three project teams, with three teachers, a counselor, and a school-community coordinator on each, developed sex-fair experience-based career education programs and activities for junior and senior high school students in three Arkansas schools. Team members visited community learning sites, offered orientation and exploratory courses to students,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development
PARKER, WILLIAM RILEY – 1961
WRITTEN AT UNESCO'S REQUEST, THIS DISCUSSION GUIDE CONSIDERS WHETHER OR NOT THE NATIONAL INTEREST WOULD BE SERVED BY INCREASING THE STUDY OF MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES AND, IF SO, WHICH SEQUENCE OF STUDY OF WHAT LANGUAGES WOULD BE MOST BENEFICIAL FOR BOTH THE NATION AND THE INDIVIDUAL LEARNERS. FOLLOWING SOME BRIEF INTRODUCTORY…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Needs, Educational Trends
Smith, Brandon B.; And Others – 1980
A project determined the external validity and generalizability of a staff development procedure for inservice secondary and postsecondary vocational instructors in the states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Four secondary vocational and ten postsecondary schools participated in the project, which included 453 vocational instructors, 53…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Needs, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria
Illinois State Office of Education, Springfield. Div. of Vocational and Technical Education. – 1977
Activities of the Project DISCOVER team during the ten-month period from September 1, 1975 through June 30, 1976 are summarized in this report. (DISCOVER is a computer-based career guidance system under development since September 1972.) The major section reviews progress in meeting each of the following four objectives during the funding period,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Computer Assisted Instruction
JACOBY, GERTRUDE P.; NELSON, HELEN Y. – 1967
TWELVE PILOT PROGRAMS FOR TRAINING FOOD SERVICE WORKERS AND CHILD CARE CENTER AIDES FOR ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS WERE STUDIED TO (1) EVALUATE STUDENT PROGRESS TOWARDS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES RELATED TO KNOWLEDGE, JOB COMPETENCIES, AND WORK ATTITUDES, (2) DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP OF STUDENT SUCCESS IN THE COURSE AND ON THE JOB TO STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, AND…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Counselor Attitudes, Enrollment Influences, Food Service
Inskip, George B., Comp. – 1976
Designed to meet the children's academic, vocational, and social needs, Pennsylvania's migrant programs served 1,393 children during 1976. Social workers, local ministers, project staffs, and the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS) office staff at Millersville identified and recruited the children. School records were used to identify…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Bilingual Education, Career Exploration, Community Involvement
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