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Quinn, Connie – 1981
This handbook is designed to aid in developing a comprehensive program awareness effort to disseminate information on availability and accessibility of vocational programs at local, regional, and state levels. The first section focuses on developing a regional plan. It provides a suggested format for developing a county or regional plan and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Diffusion, Educational Opportunities, Information Dissemination
Download full textKennedy, Elsie, Ed.; Williams, Lawrence, Ed. – 1973
The main purpose of this booklet is to review and synthesize the historical background of career education in Kentucky and the current status of state-supported career education projects. An overview is presented of the efforts that have been made to implement the concept of career education in Kentucky, hoping to encourage other school systems in…
Descriptors: Background, Career Development, Career Education, Program Descriptions
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1989
At Appalachia Educational Laboratory, assessments of educational needs in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky serve as a basis for reviewing and planning regional programs. The 1989 needs assessment project proceeded in several phases: extrapolating a set of 30 educational needs statements from resource files and selected survey data,…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Collins, Timothy – 1987
This report surveys data from various Kentucky state government agencies and provides an assessment of economic problems in Kentucky's Appalachian region. A profile of the region and overview of the effectiveness of implemented programs are presented. Interviews with Area Development District Directors show a concern for the image of Appalachia.…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Economic Opportunities
Gordon, Dennis A. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1986
Describes how one of Kentucky's fastest growing counties handles growth-related problems without zoning ordinances using an innovative Development Guidance System. Discusses the origin and adoption of the system, system procedures, criteria used in granting development permits, and public reaction. (LFL)
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Cooperation, Community Planning, Community Programs
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1968
Basic needs of children and youth which cannot be provided by small rural schools could be realized by combining the resources and pupils of a number of local districts. Four types of organization are presented as possibilities for providing cooperative educational services: (1) autonomous districts with line functions; (2) semi-autonomous…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agencies, Classification, Cooperative Planning
Dorn, Wesley N.; And Others – 1974
Concern about the adequacy of existing optometry schools to meet the needs and demands for optometric education in the South prompted a study, to result in a proposal for expansion of education in the field. The results showed that there is a shortage of optometrists in each of the 14 states of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) region,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Contracts, Educational Assessment, Educational Demand
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1997
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), with the help of its Educational Technology Cooperative and its Wide Area Networking Task Group, designed a survey to identify the computer networking resources in the 15 SREB states. The survey was conducted to identify: (1) the various statewide educational networks in each of the SREB states; (2)…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Finance
WILSON, O.J. – 1967
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY INITIATED A PROJECT TO DETERMINE THE CULTURAL NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF THE AREA IT SERVES. IN PHASE ONE, CITY AND COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES ATTENDED A SYMPOSIUM ON ART, MUSIC, LIBRARY, LECTURE, AND THEATER RESOURCES AND FORMED A REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT. PHASE TWO WAS A WORKSHOP TO HELP COUNCIL…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Budgets, Community Action, Community Programs
Vickers, Theo Hunter – 1975
This project paper explains the theoretical basis that educators used in writing developmental career education materials for Project Green River Opportunities for Work (GROW) in Region 3, Kentucky, and outlines the steps regional and district personnel took in laying the groundwork for the publication, "Learning Concepts in Career…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning
Groppel, Carol – 1988
The Pennyrile Education Services Model Plan was developed to meet the literacy and basic skills needs of undereducated adults living in a predominantly rural, 10-county region of Kentucky known as Pennyrile. The model plan includes the establishment of eight education services centers, beginning with a center in Madisonville that serves…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Counseling Services, Day Care
Gary, Robert R. – 1979
This project report includes a brief narrative, the model placement and followup system developed for statewide implementation in vocational education programs, and an employer survey. The guide for the establishment and operation of a school-based placement and followup system is divided into two sections: general information and operational…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employment Services, Graduate Surveys, High School Graduates
Ratajczak, Rosalinda – 1978
The six sections of this report describe the collection of occupational information on an interstate basis to plan effective education programs for manpower development. Focus is on eight southern states--Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Section 1 discusses two views of vocational…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Economics
