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Download full textNorthwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1973
Eighteen promising practices in career education are described by title, location, needs, history of development, description of the practice, specific considerations for implementation, vital statistics, evaluation and contact for further information. Each is a small school practice which "works" for that school. Practices are grouped within four…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Attitudes, Evaluation, Mobile Educational Services
Vavrek, Bernard, Ed.; Pratt, Mary Lou, Ed. – 1986
The 10 papers presented in this report examine various aspects of rural bookmobile projects in the United States. The objectives of this first bookmobile conference were to offer (1) encouragement to bookmobile workers; (2) information for improving their services; (3) new data for subjective analysis of services; and (4) assistance in developing…
Descriptors: Bookmobiles, Library Planning, Library Research, Library Services
Priority Country Area Program Office, Brisbane (Australia). – 1979
Interviews, program documents, progress reports supplied by the secondary itinerant teacher, and results of a questionnaire survey conducted by the itinerant teacher provided information for a brief, interim evaluation of the Secondary Itinerant Teacher Service. The service has endeavored to help all students (including adults) enrolled with the…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Priority Country Area Program Office, Brisbane (Australia). – 1979
Interviews, project documents, and parent responses provided information for an interim evaluation of the Primary Itinerant Teacher Service, a pilot project designed to improve educational opportunities of children in the South-West Priority Country Area. In 1978, 3 itinerant teams of 2 teachers each contacted 238 students in 164 families and…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Iola Unified School District 257, KS. – 1976
The Allen County Team for Individualized Occupational Needs (ACTION) Project is a cooperative career education project developed by three rural Kansas school districts and their communities. The participating high schools have enrollments of 500, 400, and 200 students. The ACTION Project is designed to provide quality career education through a…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Business Education, Career Education, Community Resources
Saide, Tom; Lamont, Ann – 1984
Begun in 1978 to provide Queensland's South-West and Central Priority Country schools with a comprehensive maintenance and repair service for most audio-visual equipment, the Technical Maintenance Officer Service (TMO) serves 76 schools with total enrollment exceeding 13,000 pupils dispersed over a 469,000 square kilometer area. Two trained…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Equipment Maintenance
Priority Country Area Program Office, Brisbane (Australia). – 1987
Four Priority Country Area overviews, one State overview and one Project Profile are included in this report from the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP), designed to improve the educational opportunities of rural Queensland children. The program resulted from a 1977-79 Schools Commission report suggesting that rural students may be disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Background, Cultural Enrichment, Dance
Briody, P. M. – 1979
Evaluation of the Mobile Classroom Project, which provided complementary and supplementary educational experiences not available through the Primary Correspondence Schools (PCS) for 58 isolated country children in Central Queensland during 1978 and 1979, used personal observations; comments from parents, home supervisors, and key educators…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Communication Skills, Correspondence Study, Elementary Education
Amodeo, Luiza B.; And Others – 1983
Collaboration between New Mexico State University's College of Education and three other entities has led to the computer experience microvan program, implemented in 1983, a unique system for bringing microcomputers into rural New Mexico K-12 classrooms. The International Space Hall of Fame Foundation provides the van, International Space Center…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Computer Literacy, Computer Programs, Cooperative Programs
Fowler, Clifford F. – 1981
The report examines and documents the part played by certain local and regional committees in the operation of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) in South-West and Central Queensland prior to 1980. Two original studies are described: one concerned with the Local Advisory Committees (LACs) in South-West Priority Country Area and the other…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Cultural Activities, Educationally Disadvantaged
Briody, P. M. – 1980
Data for evaluation of the Mobile Remedial Unit, instituted to assist approximately 250 isolated Queensland children with learning difficulties during 1978 and 1979, were obtained by visits to 10 schools; discussions with principals, teachers, administrators, and the 2 mobile remedial teachers; document analysis; and travel with a remedial teacher…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Correspondence Study, Educationally Disadvantaged
