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Billingsley, Bonnie S.; And Others – 1993
This manual is designed to be a practical guide for designing, implementing, and evaluating instruction and services for students with disabilities. The first section, "Leadership and Collaboration," offers a conceptual framework for program leadership, a program vision and descriptions, strategies for interagency collaboration, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Montgomery, Diane, Ed. – 1994
This proceedings contains 60 conference papers that address critical issues related to rural education, special education, teacher training, school reform, and services for students who are at risk. The conference theme of rural partnerships recognizes the diversity of the ACRES membership and the need for developing and maintaining successful…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Barretti, Michael R. – 1993
This practicum was designed to develop transition skills of students with learning disabilities into the community college through a support services program designed to enhance academic and social competencies. A series of instructional sessions (24 hourly sessions) were held separately with 10 first semester college students and 10 graduating…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Style, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
Upcraft, M. Lee, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This monograph contains 14 papers on all aspects of college and university student and family orientation programs. The papers are: (1) "Orienting Today's Students" by M. Lee Upcraft; (2) "Theoretical Perspectives on Orientation" by Michael Dannells; (3) "Trends and Issues in Orientation Programs" by Gerry Strumpf and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Instruction, College Programs, College Role
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1993
These Congressional hearings contain testimony pertinent to passage of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1993, which is a bill designed to create a national framework within which states and localities can develop effective systems for offering U.S. youths access to performance-based education and training programs that will in turn prepare…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities
Goldbach, Robert L. – 1991
This report documents the fifth year of follow-up of mentally retarded school completers in the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) area, begun with parents/ guardians of students who completed their special education programs in 1985-86 (N=73) and in 1986-87 (N=60), 1990 (N=102), and in 1991 continued with completers (N=95), when a preliminary follow-up…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys
Busta, Colleen – 1990
The purpose of this study was to survey the affective and cognitive progress of three classes of pre-first grade transitional students. An introduction discusses the issue of social promotion, or the promotion of a student regardless of the student's degree of mastery of the previous level, as opposed to grade retention. In an extensive literature…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Grade Repetition
Kallembach, Sheri C.; And Others – 1991
This resource guide helps state and local administrators of vocational special needs programs, special needs educators, counselors, researchers, and policymakers serving rural youth and adults to locate resources. Resources cited in this guide are publications; newsletters; journals; special issues of journals; agencies, associations, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Agencies, At Risk Persons, Clearinghouses
Center for the Study of Social Policy, Washington, DC. – 1988
Information in this guide is based on published research concerning effective strategies in dealing with at-risk youth. It was written for those communities invited to develop proposals under the Annie E. Casey Foundation's New Futures Initiative in an attempt to alleviate problems that compromise American children's futures. Each of three…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Gibson, Gwendolyn D. – 1991
This document reports on the Chicago public high school improvement plans for the 1990-91 school year submitted during the summer of 1990 in response to the Chicago Public Schools Reform Act of 1988 (PA85-1418). Following background information on Chicago's public high schools, the purpose of PA85-1418 is explained as well as improvement plan…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
O'Neill, John; And Others – 1990
This handbook is part of a packet intended to aid educators, families, and adult service providers to facilitate the transition from school to adult life in the community for students with both cognitive disabilities and visual or dual sensory impairments. Emphasis is on transition planning and community based instruction, including vocational…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills
Ackermann, Susan P.; Byock, Gayle J. – 1989
The Freshman Summer Program and Transfer Summer Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are designed to increase the academic achievement, retention, and graduation of underprepared and underrepresented or low-income students. Phase I of the evaluation assessed the extent to which academic and nonacademic goals and objectives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Preparation, Curriculum Evaluation
Griffiths, Matthew; And Others – 1989
The study described in the first part of this two-part document identified the kind of ongoing support that would be most beneficial to all those concerned in the employment of young people with disabilities in England and Wales. Semistructured interviews were conducted with employers, representatives of preparation and placement agencies, and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adolescents, Advocacy, Agency Cooperation
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. Div. on Career Development. – 1989
Seven papers are presented which illustrate model programs and research on providing vocational services to students with disabilities. "Project WorkAbility: California's Successful Transition Program for Secondary Students" (Deborah Henderson) describes locally controlled transition projects involving interagency collaboration and statewide…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Cognitive Style
Torres, Marcia; Askins, William – 1990
This report presents an evaluation of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, Chapter 2, Subprogram C, Special Projects program for the 1988-89 school year. The purpose of the program was to expand the knowledge and skills of job developers in placing severely handicapped students in appropriate occupational and adult service agency…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Services
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