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Mayor's Office of Manpower, San Francisco, CA. – 1975
The report describes a 1974-75 project to coordinate planning efforts for public training programs in vocational education, rehabilitation, and manpower training and development in San Francisco. Project participants included representatives from the local public school district, the community college district, the office of the State Department…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Leaders, Community Planning, Cooperative Planning
Spencer, Maria Gutierrez – 1968
Described, in detail, in this speech is the implementation of the Silver City, New Mexico elementary school program to stress bicultural orientation and linguistic development. After brief introductory remarks concerning the identification of the bilingual problem and language teacher responsibility for initiating new bilingual educational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers
Saville, Muriel R.; Troike, Rudolph C. – 1970
The introduction to this handbook for teachers and administrators in bilingual education programs states: "Half of the children in the world are bilingual, and approximately one fourth of the people in the United States can communicate in more than one language. About ten percent of our population speaks a language other than English natively. For…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teacher Aides
Bryant, Theodore; And Others – 1976
This third volume of the final report on urban cooperative work education programs contains summaries or case studies of the programs in 19 secondary and 11 postsecondary schools throughout the country. (Volume 1, an overview of the entire study, describes the methodology and findings, and Volume 2 is a detailed analysis of the followup study of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Assessment
Lieberman, Janet; Hungar, Julie Yearsley – 1998
Focusing on the Exploring Transfer (ET) program, in which community college students attend summer university classes, this report describes the history of the program, reviews its main components, and discusses strategies for replicating the model. The first section reviews the origins of ET, indicating that it was first implemented in 1985 by…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Educational Finance
Finn, Peter – 1997
The Orange County, Florida, Corrections Division provides unusually intensive educational and vocational programs to most inmates in its 3,300-bed jail. A staff of 70 full-time instructors provide the following services: adult basic education, preparation for the general equivalency diploma, vocational training, life skills development, women's…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Daily Living Skills, Educational Practices
Stanton, Geoff, Ed.; Richardson, William, Ed. – FEDA Report, 1997
This document contains eight papers examining different aspects of categorization, divisions, and choice in further education (FE) that were commissioned during a study of tripartite pathways (for example, academic, vocational and applied) in education and training for 16-19 year olds in the United Kingdom. The following papers are included:…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Moore, Zena T.; Ramsay, Angela – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1995
A 1994 study investigated foreign language instruction in the elementary schools (FLES) in Austin, Texas. Data were drawn from telephone interviews with school personnel, from documents and records at the state department of education, and from visits to schools offering FLES instruction. The report presents information on the seven school…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Articulation (Education), Course Content, Elementary Education
Walqui, Aida – 2000
This book describes the characteristics of secondary schools in the United States that make it difficult for immigrant students to succeed. These include the following: fragmented school days and instructional programs in which English-as-a-Second-Language and content area teachers work in separate departments and rarely interact; the complex…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language)
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1998
The National School-to-Work Office in collaboration with the National Association for Gifted Children, the Council for Exceptional Children, the Association for the Gifted, and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted have identified 11 gifted education/school-to-work (GT/STW) models that are either best practices or unique…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Advanced Placement Programs, Career Education
Lanyasunya, Andrew Ropilo; Lesolayia, Moses S. – 2001
The advent of schooling, the cash economy, and new political systems have brought about many situations providing challenges to the Samburu and the Turkana nomadic pastoralists in northern Kenya. This report details the experiences of the staff of the El-barta project in working with communities within a situation of isolation, harsh climatic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Community Cooperation, Community Development
Wisconsin Family Assistance Center for Education, Training and Support, Inc., Milwaukee. – 2001
This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of the Wisconsin FACETS program, a program that provides parent information and training services for underserved parents and caretakers of infants, toddlers, children, and young adults with disabilities who live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The goals of the program are provided, along with a…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational Legislation
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on designing effective human resource development (HRD) programs that was conducted as part of a conference on HRD. "Leveraging System Factors for Increased Training Effectiveness" (David Ripley) is a conceptual paper that critiques current training design models and the lack of…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Fire Fighters
Macias, Reynaldo Flores; Alegria, Adelina; Resnik, Ana Maria Rodrigues – 1997
The 97 bilingual education program enhancement projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in fiscal 1995 are analyzed for their demographic characteristics, goals and objectives, instructional characteristics, parent and family services, professional development, personnel…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Content Analysis, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education
Spais, George S. – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2005
The major objective of this study is to identify a methodology that will help educators in marketing to efficiently manage the design, impact, and cost of case studies. It is my intention is to examine the impact of case study characteristics in relation to the degree of learner involvement in the learning process. The author proposes that…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Educational Methods
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