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Download full textAnnie E. Casey Foundation, 2013
Making Connections was the Annie E. Casey Foundation's signature place-based, community-change initiative of the 2000s. It sought to build on previous work and launch an effort focused firmly on the framework of family strengthening. The Foundation started Making Connections in 22 places, focusing eventually on first 10, then seven sites. It…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Change Strategies, Program Development, Program Implementation
Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative, Hazard. – 1979
A project was conducted to disseminate career education philosophy, methods, program activities, and evaluation results to career education practitioners and the general public in rural Appalachia. Five major project dissemination tasks were accomplished and evaluated, including (1) visitations to the project and regional schools so that educators…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Community Involvement, Exceptional Persons
Spence, Toni, Comp.; Tulloch, Charlotte, Comp. – 1978
This guide provides a listing of major resources and means of access in the area of career education. In section 1, "Background of Career Education," state and federal laws concerning Kentucky career education are discussed, state and federal advisory councils are examined, and an abstract of the Kentucky state plan for career education…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Community Involvement, Educational Resources
Archambo, Judith P. – 1970
A 4-year follow-up study of children in the Rural Child Care Project has shown that greatest losses in intellectual functioning for former project children occurred in the first year of public school among those scoring above 80 on their first Binet but who were retained in grade 1. IQ change during grade 1 was negatively related to attendance at…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Involvement, Family Involvement, Followup Studies
Levine, Daniel U.; Doll, Russell C. – 1971
The Louisville Public School District is probably the only large public school district which has systematically begun change on a "systems" basis. Top school officials first made a wide-ranging assessment of the most pressing problems in the district, developed and stated their premises, and then planned two programs. The primary…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Dropout Prevention, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Omvig, Clayton P. – 1974
Four major component areas of the Hazard (Kentucky) Educational Region were sampled using questionnaires, tests, and interviews in an effort to assess the effects of a regional career education program. The community component, randomly selected to achieve a five percent representative sample, was examined for major variables associated with the…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Education, Community Involvement, Data Collection
Direct linkDeDeo, Carrie-Anne, Ed. – Harvard Family Research Project, 2007
This double issue of "The Evaluation Exchange" focuses on one of the central components of complementary learning: family involvement. As outlined in the Theory & Practice article, investments in family involvement are important across ages and settings and through the co-constructed efforts and shared responsibilities of many…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Parent School Relationship, Transitional Programs, Kindergarten
Kannapel, Patricia J.; Aagaard, Lola; Coe, Pamelia; Reeves, Cynthia A. – 2000
From 1990 to 2000, a qualitative study of the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) was conducted in four small rural school districts in Kentucky. KERA reflects key components of what would later be termed "systemic reform": a unifying set of goals that all students must attain, a coherent system of instructional…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 2000
In 1989, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky's education system was unconstitutional and invalidated the entire body of school law. In response, the General Assembly passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA), a completely new educational system. This report upon the 10th anniversary of KERA's passage documents how key…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Community Involvement, Dropout Rate
Kaplan, Carol B.; Preli, Barbara – 1978
This description of career education activities in Jefferson County (Louisville, Kentucky) was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Involvement
