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Conley, David T.; McGaughy, Charis; Ward, Terri; Martinez, Mary – Educational Policy Improvement Center (NJ1), 2008
In April 2008, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) contracted with the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) to facilitate a series of regional workshops and provide technical assistance to strengthen efforts to improve college readiness for all students. This final report summarizes these activities…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Workshops, Technical Assistance
McDonough, Matthew – 1980
This study of services to young children with special needs in Massachusetts was conducted for the Early Childhood Project, Division of Special Education, Massachusetts Department of Education. The report contains the following: (1) an evaluation of activities carried out between October 1979 and August 1980 by the Birth to Six Project in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Policy Formation, Preschool Education, Program Evaluation
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Pettigrew, Thomas F.; And Others – Public Interest, 1973
David Armor's "The Evidence on Busing" presented a distorted and incomplete review of this politically charged topic. We respect Armor's right to publish his views against "mandatory busing." But we challenge his claim that these views are supported by scientific evidence. A full discussion of our reading of the relevant…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
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Armor, David J. – Public Interest, 1973
Thomas Pettigrew and his associates have missed the essential point of my study. The essential requirement for sound reasoning on this matter is observance of the distinction among the findings of science, the results of policy, and the dictates of law or morality. I studied the results of existing policies of induced school integration (all of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects
Barocci, Thomas A.; And Others – 1978
This monograph includes two reports describing the results of three years of field research on the implementation and impact of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Eastern Massachusetts. They represent a thorough and detailed study of the problems faced by prime sponsors in the initial years of CETA. The first report, CETA in…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
InterAmerica Research Associates, Washington, DC. – 1978
The proceedings at fifteen career education site visits are detailed in this phase 2 final report. (Phase 1, community organization mini-conferences, is described in CE 020 110.) Notes from these visitations cover such programs as career education centers, school system-based programs, and education-work councils. Several site-visit purposes are…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Influence, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Kraemer, Jacqueline, Comp.; And Others – 1992
This booklet, part of a series of profiles on family support and education programs across the United States, contains profiles of five diverse programs designed to improve the future of children through family-focused and comprehensive service delivery. Programs examined are North Dakota's Child Welfare Reform Initiative, Iowa's Decategorization…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Services, Compensatory Education, Cooperation