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Daugherty, Richard F.; Cockerill, Charles P. – 1998
This book provides answers to the most common legal questions of Nevada's school board members, administrators, and educators. Chapter 1, "The Nevada School System: Governance, Programs, and Standards," explores the constitutional, legal, and statutory basis of school system governance. Chapter 2, "The Nevada Plan: Finance of Public…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Collective Bargaining, Compliance (Legal), Discipline Policy
Wilson, Bruce; Corbett, Dick – 2000
The prospects for disseminating research to the field of adult basic education and literacy (ABE&L) were assessed by interviewing about 60 ABE&L decision makers and practitioners from 10 different states about their work and information needs. The decision makers set ABE&L policy in states or regions and/or supervised teachers and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education
Guest, Graham – 2000
Professionals have normally become qualified through a period of formal education followed by a structured training program and continuing professional development. This traditional pattern is being replaced with a process of lifelong learning that, thanks to the development and application of a wide range of information and communication…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Career Development, Continuing Education
Jones, Cheryl A.; Anderson, Mike – 2001
This document, which is intended for mangers at post-16 educational institutions in the United Kingdom, presents guidelines for managing curriculum change that were developed on the basis of case studies of the following further education (FE) colleges: Grey Skies College; Midshire College; and Happy Days College. The introduction explains how the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Attitude Change, Case Studies
Brookes, Dave; Hughes, Maria – 2001
The professional development strategies and activities of vocational education and training staff at further education (FE) colleges in the United Kingdom were examined through a mail survey completed by 891 staff members at 108 colleges throughout the United Kingdom (representing 24% of the FE sector). Most respondents (92%) stated that their…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, College Faculty, Delivery Systems, Educational Needs
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Coll. of Education. – 1996
Includes the following among 52 papers: "Accelerated Degree Programs" (Anderson et al.); "Basic Skills in the Workplace" (Askov); "Breaking All the Rules" (Baird); "Data Mining for Factors Affecting the Implementation of Interactive, Computer-Mediated Instructional Techniques for Students at a Distance"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 2002
This document contains the text of the Nurse Reinvestment Act, which amends the Public Health Service Act to address the increasing shortage of registered nurses by instituting a series of policies to improve nurse recruitment and nurse retention. Title I details two initiatives to boost recruitment of nurses. The first initiative includes the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Development, Career Ladders, Change Strategies
Peterson, Elizabeth; Wilson, Kathleen K. – 2001
A survey called the Literacy Check-Up was conducted in South Carolina's Lancaster and Chester Counties in April-May 2000. The survey was designed to identify existing literacy services, determine how well the area's existing literacy programs were meeting participants' needs, and determine the community's capacity for serving adults in need of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Berkeley, CA. – 1999
Section 1 of this publication begins with the 1999 National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) agenda, mission statement, and an overview of the 1999 Program of Work. Descriptions of research and development activities within three sets of activities follow. Each description includes project directors and keywords. The first…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Adult Education, Career Guidance
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Career-Technical and Adult Education. – 2001
This document presents the Ohio Integrated Technical and Academic Competency profile for marketing technology. The profile is to serve as the basis for curriculum development in Ohio's secondary, adult, and postsecondary programs. The profile includes a comprehensive listing of 580 specialty and foundation key indicators for evaluating mastery of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Advertising, Business Administration
Boone, Harry N., Jr., Ed. – 2001
These proceedings contain eight papers presented at the meeting, each followed by a critique. Major areas studied are home schooling, incorporating agriscience and biotechnology in agricultural education, part-time employment by agricultural education teachers, 4-H, attitudes of Agricultural Science Institute participants, client satisfaction, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology
National-Louis Univ., Evanston, IL. – 1995
This document contains 33 papers from a conference on research in adult, continuing, and community education. Representative papers include the following: "Highlander Folk School: A Commune Based on Intellectual Property" (Keith B. Armstrong, Donna J. Martin); "Women, Welfare and Mandated Education: An Analysis of Single Mothers'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Smith, Clifton L.; Edmunds, Niel A. – 1999
This guide is intended to help career and technical education teachers perform the new roles expected of them in view of the new emphasis on school-to-careers programs. The following are among the topics discussed in the guide's nine chapters: role of the career and technical educator; providing career guidance; integrating academic and career and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Relations
Yelland, Nicola J., Ed. – 2000
Grounded in active learning, inquiry, and problem solving embedded in a social and cultural context, this book presents a collection of ideas illustrating innovative practices for educating early childhood professionals in university and other contexts. The book is presented in three parts. Part 1, "Listening to Student Voices," is…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Art Education, Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education
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Kajioka, Vicki; Shiroma, Donna; Tisdell, Debi; Kanemori, Lena; Tsuda, Jean – Educational Perspectives, 2002
The E-School Technology Innovation Challenge Grant of 1996 was the genesis of the Department of Education's (DOE's) efforts to initiate a multi-prong approach to bring standards-based curriculum to the children of Hawai'i and use technology to upgrade professional development for its teachers. In this article, the authors describe how various…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Information Technology, Telecommunications
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