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Reyes, Richard H. – 1979
A bilingual vocational training program was instituted to provide fifty-six Spanish- and Chinese-speaking students with a chance to acquire English language skills and training as medical clerks simultaneously. Community benefits expected and evident need in the area for bilingual medical-clerical employees led to the choice of this field. The…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language)
Ahmad, Fazel – 1978
By 1973 there were very great disparities between the opportunities for education in the urban and rural areas of Afghanistan. This case study concerns provincial school construction programs for hundreds of small buildings in the remotest areas of what is one of the most mountainous countries of the world. A study proposed alternative building…
Descriptors: Building Innovation, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Construction Management
Cardenas, Jose A.; Cardenas, Blandina – 1977
According to the Cardenas-Cardenas Theory of Incompatibilities, Black, Mexican American, and economically disadvantaged children have not enjoyed the same success in school as that of the typical middle-class American because of a lack of compatibility between the characteristics of minority children and the characteristics of a typical…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Blacks, Community Involvement
Jonas, Stephen – 1978
This nine-part, long-range plan discusses the internal and external factors that will affect Lorain County Community College's (LCCC's) development from 1978 to 1983 and presents a forecast of LCCC's future needs. Part I traces the history of LCCC, provides a conceptual framework for college planning, and discusses the plan development process…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Programs, College Role, Community Colleges
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. – 1979
Data tables summarize selected personal and academic characteristics of students enrolled at the seven Hawaii community colleges in the Fall 1979 semester, focusing on classified and unclassified students in credit programs. Registration in various community college offerings numbered 28,781. Of these, 72% were regular students enrolled in credit…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Educational Background, Enrollment
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. Information Center on Exceptional Children. – 1978
A series of 18 fact sheets provide basic information on specific subjects of interest to those working with gifted and talented children. The fact sheets, produced by the Council for Exceptional Children, are in question/answer format and have resource references. Following are the topics of the fact sheets: career awareness for the gifted and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Community Programs, Creative Thinking, Creativity
McIntyre, Chuck – 1979
A proposed California community college long-term finance plan is presented, which outlines finance principles in the areas of accountability, resources, sources of support, and support techniques. A planning and accountability process is proposed to meet existing state-level concerns for accountability while maintaining local decision-making and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board of Education Policy, Budgeting, Community Colleges
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System. – 1979
Data tables summarize selected personal and academic characteristics of students enrolled at the seven Hawaii community colleges in the spring 1979 semester, focusing on students enrolled as classified and unclassified students in credit programs. Registrations in various community college offerings numbered 27,033. Of these, 71% were regular…
Descriptors: Age, College Credits, Community Colleges, Educational Background
Sloan, Charles A.; Farrelly, Edward – 1979
The progress of junior college students at Northern Illinois University is considered, a brief review of the junior college movement in Illinois is presented, and admission changes related to transfer students are identified. In 1965 a network of community colleges in Illinois was established with a curriculum designed to provide students with…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), College Admission, College Transfer Students
Freedom from Hunger Campaign, Rome (Italy). – 1977
The FFHC/AD (Freedom From Hunger Campaign/Action for Development) is the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) link with peoples' organizations in the world's poor and rich countries. During its 18 years of activities, FFHC/AD has channelled additional funds collected by private financing agencies in the industrialized countries to rural…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Production, Change Agents, Communications
Torrance Unified School District, CA. – 1979
Because of girls' relatively low motivation to pursue math studies, this project's purposes were to expand girls' career choice possibilities, to increase the quality of motivation and career guidance offered by counselors and teachers, and to involve parents of ninth-grade girls by providing specific information about the project and about…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Careers, Counselor Attitudes
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1966
THIS REPORT EVALUATES NEW YORK STATE'S COMPENSATORY EDUCATION ACTIVITIES ACCORDING TO THE FORMAT SPECIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION. THE FIRST SECTION DEALS WITH PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND DESCRIBES THE TYPES OF SERVICES OFFERED, DISSEMINATION OF DATA, EVALUATIVE PROCEDURES, MAJOR PROBLEM AREAS, PROJECTS THAT WERE NOT APPROVABLE, COORDINATION…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Attendance, Community Action
PALTIEL, FREDA L. – 1966
THIS VOLUME IS PLANNED AS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF SOURCE BOOKS FOR LEGISLATORS, ADMINISTRATORS, STUDENTS, AND RESEARCHERS, SUMMARIZING INFORMATION ON CURRENT AND RECENT LITERATURE, AS WELL AS ON ACTION PROJECTS RELEVANT TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE, DIMENSIONS, AND DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY IN CANADA. PART 1 IS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY UNDER…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age, Annotated Bibliographies, Children
SCHRAMM, WILBUR; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS STUDY REVIEWS THE EDUCATIONAL USES, EFFECTIVENESS AND COSTS OF THE NEW MEDIA (RADIO, TELEVISION, PROGRAMED LEARNING, CORRESPONDENCE STUDY, AND FILMS AND AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS) AND MAKES SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS THEIR EFFECTIVE USE IN EDUCATION. NEW MEDIA HAVE BEEN USED FOR UPGRADING INSTRUCTION, TEACHER TRAINING, EXTENSION OF EDUCATION, LITERACY AND…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audiovisual Instruction, Communications, Community Development
PUDER, WILLIAM H.; HAND, SAM E. – 1966
SELECTED PAPERS AND GROUP REPORTS FROM A FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY TRAINING INSTITUTE ARE PRESENTED ON PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY AND ILLITERACY, ADULT BASIC EDUCATION METHODS AND OBJECTIVES, PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE, AND RELATED CONCERNS IN TEACHER TRAINING AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT. SPECIFIC PROBLEM…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
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