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Download full textMattson, Beverly; McCaul, Ed – 1999
This review examined the evaluation components from 10 awarded state improvement grants designed to improve systems providing services for students with disabilities. The review examined the following aspects of the evaluation components: purposes, conceptual framework for the evaluation and systems reform, evaluation design and approaches,…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Fingeret, Hanna Arlene; Cockley, Suzanne – 1992
The extent to which current staff development mechanisms in Virginia meet adult basic education (ABE) teachers' needs for skill and knowledge development was the focus of an evaluation. (The state's staff development mechanisms were identified as a centralized resource center, a regionalized training program, a centralized annual conference, and a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Educational Resources, Inservice Teacher Education
Virginia State Council on Vocational Education, Richmond. – 1989
This report presents an overview of the vocational education delivery systems assisted under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in Virginia. For the Perkins Act, the report reviews the purpose, delivery system, and the implementation of vocational education (enrollments, quality of programs for…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Compliance (Legal), Coordination
Altstadt, David – Jobs for the Future, 2012
Less than 25 percent of college students who take any developmental education courses earn a credential within eight years. Over the past three years, the six states in the Developmental Education Initiative have developed and enacted unprecedented changes in policy and practice in an effort to reverse these dismal outcomes. "Ahead of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Best Practices, Developmental Studies Programs, Case Studies
Virginia State Crime Commission, Richmond. – 1993
Virginia Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 53 directed the State Crime Commission to study law enforcement training, including current standards and technology, the need for improved delivery of training, and the costs of implementing new standards and erecting appropriate facilities. During the course of the study, commission staff conducted five…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Costs, Educational Facilities, Educational Facilities Design
Virginia State Council on Vocational Education, Richmond. – 1991
A task force on private-public sector education in Virginia concluded that transfer and award of credit between public and private sector education providers should be facilitated. Based on the task force recommendations, the Virginia Council on Vocational Education made three recommendations to the State Board for Community Colleges and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Credits, Community Colleges, Educational Policy
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
This document is one of a series of reports which describe the experiences of six state agencies that are developing systems to affect the development and implementation of policy in the federal/state program for vocational rehabilitation. The state programs are developing model program evaluation/management information support units. This second…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citations (References), Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
O'Reilly, Patrick A.; And Others – 1995
A project described and examined the status of secondary trade and industrial (T&I) education in Virginia and made recommendations to improve such programs. Statewide enrollment data were retrieved for the school years 1986-87 through 1992-93. Questionnaires gathered concerns and recommendations of public school personnel about T&I…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Faculty Development
Virginia State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Blacksburg. – 1983
This 1982-83 annual report on vocational education in Virginia is organized under four major categories: (1) recommendations for improving the state's vocational education programs, services, and activities; (2) extent to which Council recommendations have received consideration; (3) review of the vocational education annual program plan…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
Manual for Implementing Standards of Quality and Objectives for Public Schools in Virginia, 1972-74.
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1972
These standards and objectives provide a new impetus for improving public education by placing emphasis on educational planning. Required by the new Constitution of Virginia, standards for personnel, instructional materials, program, and systemwide planning and management are established in conjunction with rules and regulations for their…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Virginia State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Blacksburg. – 1984
This 1983-84 annual report on vocational education in Virginia is organized under four major categories: (1) recommendations for improving the state's vocational education programs, services, and activities; (2) the extent to which previous recommendations have received consideration; (3) review of the vocational education annual program plan…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Competence, Demand Occupations
Davies, Gordon K. – National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
In March 2003, the Education Commission of the States, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education established a collaborative project to help states improve higher education performance by assisting with examination of state higher education policies and with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Program Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Biswas, Radha Roy; Mills, Jack; Prince, Heath – Jobs for the Future, 2005
In their 2004 State of the State speeches, the nation's governors cited many issues competing for their attention and their states' resources, including health care, education, crime, and security (Nodine 2004). Among the most compelling challenges were those related to economic development and the ability of a state's workforce to meet the needs…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Economic Development, Labor Force Development, Case Studies
