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Download full textGallin, Alice, Ed. – Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education, 1990
Issues on college student life are presented, focusing on first, the results of a questionnaire survey asking Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) college and university presidents to name what they consider to be the three most immediate student life concerns and, second, ACCU Student Life Task Force discussions on the data…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Alcohol Abuse, Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges
Westberry, Susan – 1990
The Basic Educational Skills Training (BEST) workplace literacy demonstration model was designed to provide adult basic education (ABE) services simultaneously for multiple employers in Maury County, Tennessee. The BEST model focused on job-related instruction. The goal of the program was to achieve increased safety, productivity, and employee…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Programs
Jensen, Dennis; Griffith, Steve – 1986
What happened in the small farm community of Elk Point, South Dakota, on January 8, 1986, was unimaginable--a father shot his family and then walked to work and shot himself. Upon learning of the murder/suicide, the Elk Point School District faced the difficult questions of what teachers should say to students, how the district should deal with…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Problems, Community Programs, Counselor Role
Osborne, Linda B., Ed. – 1982
The Family Day Care Check-In Program is designed to offer working parents convenient, affordable after school care for their children aged 10 to 14. It provides children with flexible supervision by caring, trained adults and gives them opportunities to grow into responsible, independent teens by planning and participating in activities on their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Programs, Child Caregivers, Community Programs
Designs for Change, Chicago, IL. – 1987
Intended for parents and all citizens concerned about improving Chicago's 592 public schools, this handbook, a Spanish language version of "All Our Kids Can Learn To Read" (1985), explains how important reading is to a decent education and future employment. Chapter one describes the school improvement campaign called…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
PDF pending restorationIsaacs, Mareasa R. – 1986
This report includes the background papers developed for an invitational workshop on mental health program development for minority youth and their families, and a summary of the recommendations made and actions to be taken. Section I presents an overall framework and an overview of the issues that were explored in greater depth at the workshop.…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Community Programs, Family Involvement, Federal Programs
Mei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1988
The 1986-87 Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention (AIDP) Part-Time Jobs Program was begun in spring 1987 to place at-risk New York City, New York, high school students in part-time, unsubsidized jobs that would motivate them to improve their school attendance and academic achievement. Twenty-one community-based organizations (CBOs) contracted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Community Programs, Dropout Prevention
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1988
This evaluation of the second-year (1986-87) implementation of the New York City (New York) Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI) in 13 high schools focuses on student characteristics and outcomes, with a discussion of a set of statistical data on program services, findings on school-level indicators of program effectiveness, and an analysis of…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention
Orum, Lori S. – 1988
This paper describes the work of the National Council of La Raza to improve education for Hispanic students and their families. It provides an overview of the council's Innovative Education Project, an effort to demonstrate and evaluate effective models for use by affiliated community-based organizations to improve educational outcomes for…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Cowan, Margaret E., Ed.; Stapp, William B., Ed. – 1982
Provided in this document are case studies of representative and exemplary innovative environmental education programs from various regions of the world (North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia/Oceania). The case studies provide information on the environment and environmental problems and concerns…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment)
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Program Planning and Development Section. – 1985
This casebook on parent and community participation is part of a series of resource booklets to be developed in conjunction with each of the eight characteristics of effective schools used in the Illinois Quality School Index (IQSI). The resources identified are derived from computer searches in the ERIC database, contact with national…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Bailis, Lawrence Neil – 1984
This paper summarizes the results of a National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) survey of community-based organizations (CBOs) about the effects of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Findings are summarized in these areas: (1) changes in funding for training disadvantaged youth, (2) changes in service to youth, (3) the role of CBOs in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Community Action, Community Cooperation
Colle, R. D. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2005
Universities and community telecenters have somewhat parallel missions in society. These include the generation, storage and diffusion of knowledge and information. Yet, in most developing countries where telecenters strive to be demand-driven, universities are seldom perceived as relevant to telecenters sustainability. Focusing especially on…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Information Technology, Universities, African Studies
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1978
Summarizing the first eight months of the planning, design, and implementation of the new federal youth programs created by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) and the efforts for expansion and enrichment of the Job Corps, this report explains the charters of the two projects and their initial successes in and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. – 1976
The conference reported here was held for national leaders from industry, labor, education, and youth-serving organizations to (1) provide a forum for the presentation of a sampling of illustrative programs displaying initiative being taken in the private sector to enhance youth career development, and (2) obtain the counsel of participants on how…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
