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21st Century School Fund, 2006
The Savoy/TMA Public Education Campus encompasses the 3.5 acres that includes the Savoy Elementary School and the former Nichols Avenue School, now the fully modernized Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School (TMA) and a recreation center sponsored by the Department of Parks and Recreation. As a part of public initiatives to better…
Descriptors: Recreational Programs, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning, Program Implementation
Snipes, Jason C.; Holton, Glee Ivory; Doolittle, Fred; Sztejnberg, Laura – MDRC, 2006
This report describes the effects of Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) on student progress at three high schools in Houston (the initiative's original site) and at high schools in two other school districts (Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia). MDRC--a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization--conducted a third-party…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, High School Students, Urban Schools, High Schools
National Council for Geographic Education (NJ1), 2006
This report examines the outcomes of a workshop held at the National Science Foundation on August 15-16, 2005. Forty-six participants, representing academia, industry, government agencies, professional associations, and special projects met to: (1) discuss how geospatial technology training at two-year colleges can address workforce needs; and…
Descriptors: Training, Needs Assessment, Workshops, On the Job Training
Barnett, Elisbeth; Gardner, Douglas; Bragg, Debra – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2004
Dual credit programs were first established in the 1970s, gradually gaining popularity in the 1980s, and expanding enormously through the 1990s. These programs are designed to allow high school students to begin college-level coursework and simultaneously earn high school and college credit. While the original intent was to provide more…
Descriptors: Research Design, College Credits, Community Colleges, High School Students
Danaher, Joan, Ed. – 2002
Part C Updates is a compilation of information on various aspects of the Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities (Part C) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The intent of the compilation is to collect, in a convenient format, a variety of resources that meet the information needs of state and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordinators, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Boone, Edgar J.; Safrit, R. Dale; Jones, Jo – 2002
This guide for current and prospective adult educators is a comprehensive, practical conceptual framework for planning, designing/implementing, and evaluating/accounting for adult education programs. Chapter 1 describes the programming process. Chapter 2 describes 13 nationally recognized models of the adult education programming process, the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Educational Needs
Moore, Kristin; Brown, Brett; Halle, Tamara; Pitzer, Lindsay; Calkins, Julia – 2002
In 1999, South Carolina's First Steps to School Readiness was launched as a comprehensive early childhood initiative to improve childrens school readiness by improving the efficiency and coordination of existing services to children from birth to age 5 and their families, and by providing new services where gaps are identified. A legislatively…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Community Programs, Counties
California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Mental Health in Schools. – 2003
When it comes to student support, widespread agreement exists for moving in new directions. It is easy to agree that change is needed. It is harder to agree on what the changes should look like. And, it is even harder to get from here to there. The intent of this paper is to focus the discussion about new directions for student support by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive School Reform, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Shackelford, Jo – 2002
The term "informed clinical opinion" appears in the regulatory requirements for the implementation of Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) as an integral part of an eligibility determination. It must be included in evaluation and assessment procedures, since it is a necessary safeguard against eligibility…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Compliance (Legal), Decision Making, Disabilities
Department for Education and Skills, London (England). – 2002
These exemplar units of work for National Strategy Key Stage 3 English show how medium and short-term planning can be based on the Key Stage 3 Framework objectives and support the implementation of Curriculum 2000. The Key Stage 3 English strand introduces pupils to more specialist study of language and literature and supports the study of…
Descriptors: Biographies, British National Curriculum, Class Activities, Curriculum Development
Giloth, Bob; Gewirtz, Susan – 1999
Annie E. Casey Jobs Initiative sites recognize the challenge that long-term retention poses in today's labor market for low-income residents. They have developed key elements of an operational definition of retention, including the following: no limitation to one job, but only very limited gaps between jobs; and jobs in construction or other…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Employment, Employment Experience
Giloth, Robert; Phillips, William – 2000
The Anne E. Casey Foundation (AECF) funded replications of effective jobs projects to achieve better job placement and retention for low-income, young adults. The six projects funded, collectively called the Jobs Initiative (JI), in Denver, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle, and St. Louis, used an outcomes framework developed by The…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Cooperation, Job Placement
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Div. of Learner, Teacher, and School Support. – 2000
The Standards Implementation Design (SID) system is a comprehensive framework for analyzing school performance, planning for improvement based on the analysis, implementing the improvements, and evaluating results. It is designed to engage school personnel in introspection about student achievement as related to curriculum, the teaching and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2001
This booklet is one of five in the Peace Corps (PC) Programming and Training Guidelines collection that provides agency-wide programming and training (P&T) guidance for PC staff and project partners. It incorporates topics from previous booklets--how to design or revise a project, how to integrate the PC's cross-cultural goals, and how to…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel; Horovitz, Haya – 2002
This study examined the impact of a 5-year school family partnership project in Israel with the goals of improving children's reading and writing achievement and forming a parents task force to create community-wide involvement and change. Participating in this study were 510 parents of the first graders enrolled in 21 classrooms in 7 Jewish…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Family School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
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