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Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Special Education Services Unit. – 1994
This document contains all Impartial Hearing Officer Decisions, State Level Review Decisions, and Complaint Findings issued in Colorado in 1993 and is intended as a resource tool for assuring the provision of a free appropriate public education to children with disabilities. The full text of each decision or finding is preceded by a case summary…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Ancillary School Services, Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal)
Powers, Judi; Holm, Karen – 1977
One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Job Orientation and Training Program. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities, Course Descriptions
Syracuse Univ., NY. Center on Human Policy. – 1997
This guide evaluates more than 130 training curricula that were published or completed in or after 1987 and are targeted to training direct service staff or trainers of direct service staff working with people with developmental disabilities. The reviews are organized alphabetically by publisher. Topics and issues that were used to categorize the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agencies, Agency Cooperation, Behavior Problems
Kulich, Jindra – 1993
This seventh volume of the bibliography contains 891 items. An introduction discusses previous volumes in the series, countries covered, and organization of the bibliography. Periodicals searched and the 20 categories used throughout the bibliography are listed. Selected items represent the broadest possible concept of adult education. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Annotated Bibliographies, Apprenticeships
Kulich, Jindra – 1996
This annotated bibliography contains 1,033 entries describing English-language materials regarding adult education (AE) in continental Europe that were identified through a systematic search of 188 periodicals. Entries are arranged by country. Among the topics of the works included are the following: history of AE; comparative studies; state and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies

Wilson, Terry; Martin, Joan – 1991
This report presents a model of collaborative effort that established a network of 15 university-based and 2 non-university based Centers for Environmental Education (CEE) in the Tennessee River watershed region. The report begins by establishing definitions for a Center for Environmental Education and a network system, both of which are…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Education Service Centers, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Jackson, Verdell – 1978
This booklet for educational administrators and instructors contains a series of 30 strategies to overcome problems of delivering a vocational program in small rural schools. The strategies, written in abstract form, are intended for adaptation or modification for local use. Each is presented in this format: definition, purpose, description,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Correspondence Study
Kreps, Alice Roelofs; Redden, Cora – 1975
This curriculum consists of fourteen courses based upon basic life problems which are designed to provide volunteers in the College for Living (CFL) program with materials to teach survival skills to developmentally disabled adults. CFL is intended to supplement residential programs in and around Denver and aid institutions in orienting…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Aesthetic Education, Basic Skills
Miller, Sidney; And Others – 1975
Materials contained in this manual and curriculum guide provide educational coordinators with theoretical and operational information on how to carry out the integrated curriculum designed to facilitate improved instructional and career programming for students in residential settings. Chapter 1, Career Education for Chronically Disruptive Youth,…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavioral Objectives, Career Counseling
Burghardt, John; Schochet, Peter Z. – 2001
The question of whether the Job Corps's impacts on students' employment and related outcomes differ according to the characteristics of the Job Corps center attended was examined. The study sample consisted of approximately 9,400 program group members and 6,000 control group members who were randomly selected from among the nearly 81,000…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counseling Services, Delivery Systems, Differences
Journal of Human Services, 1978
To provide information on subjects of concern to those in planning, management, and delivery of human services, this journal presents 149 abstracts from literature in the human services field. The journal is divided into five parts: the abstracts themselves, arranged in alphabetical order by title, with bibliographic and availability information;…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administration, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1903
Volume 2 covers Puerto Rican education; Alaskan education; the 12th annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska (ED613561); city school statistics; information and statistics on universities, colleges, technological schools, professional schools, agricultural and mechanical colleges, normal schools, secondary schools, manual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Animal Husbandry, Urban Schools
Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2004
The 25th Annual Report to Congress has been designed to showcase the data collected from states and the national studies that make up the Office of Special Education Programs' (OSEP) National Assessment of the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Act. To this end, OSEP proposed questions about the characteristics of children and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, State Programs
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1872
This report provides abstracts of official reports from state, territorial, and city school officers. The appendices give information and statistics on Indian education; education conventions and institutes; national science schools; education for the blind; education for the deaf and dumb; foreign education; German education; women's educational…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Science Education, Blindness
Elsdon, K. T. – 2001
This document examines the history of the diverse range of postschool activities such as adult education, youth work, community work, and voluntary organizations that were known as "other further education" (OFE) and offered in the United Kingdom from 1944 to 1992. The following are among the topics discussed in Chapters 1-7: (1) further…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Art Activities