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Association of Farmworker Opportunity Program, Arlington, VA. – 1996
The set of materials was designed to provide nutrition instruction to Spanish-speaking farm workers using radio broadcasts. It includes audiocassette tapes of four novellas (mini-dramas) on nutrition-related topics (diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure, pregnancy, smart shopping), talk shows on the same topics, a public service…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Blood Circulation, Classroom Techniques, Daily Living Skills
Smith, Jane Bandy – 1995
This book is a guide to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum-based library media center program; although based on a middle school model, the tools are adaptable to any school setting. The first section defines a curriculum-based library media program and discusses the concept of change, including how to enlist support for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Instructional Design, Intermediate Grades
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
This General Accounting Office study, commissioned by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, reflects concerns about rising caseloads and long-term dependence on welfare programs, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Attention has been focused the United State's welfare system, particularly on the rising number of teenage mothers. The forces…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Community Coordination, Community Health Services
Richardson, Susanna, Ed.; Izard, John, Ed. – 1990
This collection of papers focuses on practical approaches to resolving behavior problems in the Australian school system. The papers are divided into four general categories: perspectives on behavior problems, focusing on families, schools and system initiatives, and programs in special settings. The papers include: (1) "Beyond…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Bragg, Debra D., Ed. – 1992
This document describes six different approaches to outcomes assessments, approaches that are named in the titles of chapters 2 through 7. The chapters and authors are as follows: "Perspectives on Assessment Policy and Practice" (Bragg, Harmon); "Total Quality Management" (Bragg); "Assessing Student Success" (Harmon);…
Descriptors: Accountability, Concept Mapping, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Giangreco, Michael F.; And Others – 1993
This guidebook to developing programs which include children with disabilities in general education classrooms offers a step-by-step process, specific instructions, scheduling helps, and master forms. An introduction (Section I) describes the COACH (Choosing Options and Accommodations for Children) approach identifying such assumptions as the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Individualized Education Programs
Florida State Board of Community Colleges, Tallahassee. – 1993
This report provides an overview and results of a state-level summative review undertaken to examine issues affecting program leaders and planners within the mathematics divisions/departments of Florida's 28 community colleges, make recommendations for changes and funding priorities, identify areas of need, observe trends, and highlight concerns…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research
Hemphill, David F. – 1992
Project EXCEL, a workplace literacy project involving four small business enterprises in San Francisco, is evaluated. The project focused on literacy and basic skills training for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. The businesses included the following: a communications and mass mailing firm; a dessert wholesale company; a Mexican…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communications, Curriculum, Employee Attitudes
National Advisory Council on Indian Education, Washington, DC. – 1994
The annual report of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE) contains recommendations based on American Indian/Alaska Native perceptions of educational program needs in the areas of legislation, policy, administration, and funding. Part 1 describes the purpose and functions of NACIE. Part 2 is a paper titled "Keeping…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Budgets
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1994
Project Adelante, established in 1988 at Kean College of New Jersey, is sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Higher Education, and is currently the only "College Bound" program targeting the Hispanic-American population. Adelante ("onward" in Spanish) aims to improve the high school graduation rate of Hispanic students and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, Counseling, Dropout Prevention
Smith, Clifton L. – 1994
This planning guide begins with an overview of school-to-work transition. Section 1 also provides an overview of federal and Georgia state legislation and describes current school-to-work transition efforts, such as tech prep education, youth apprenticeship, cooperative education, entrepreneurial ventures and school-based enterprises,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Development, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Heidotting, Terri; And Others – 1994
The objective of this study was to evaluate quantitatively through meta analysis the effectiveness of child sexual-abuse prevention programs conducted over the past 10 years. Eighteen controlled studies evaluating such programs were coded for salient features and study outcomes and were then described using the common scale of effect size. An…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Comparative Analysis, Effect Size, Elementary Education
Eldering, Lotty, Ed.; Leseman, Paul, Ed. – 1993
This collection of 20 papers addresses child development and early intervention issues related to literacy acquisition from a cross-cultural perspective. Titles of the papers are: (1) "Preparing Young Children for Literacy: Issues in Theory and Practice" (Lotty Eldering and Paul Leseman); (2) "Jomtien Revisited: A Plea for a…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Developed Nations
Davidson, Mary E.; And Others – 1992
Project Creating a New Approach to Learning (CANAL) was funded by monies granted under the Settlement Agreement between the United States and the Chicago (Illinois) Board of Education to relieve the effects of segregation in racially identifiable Black and Hispanic American schools. Using a school-based management system, principals, teachers,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Desegregation Plans, Elementary School Teachers
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1991
The Chapter 1 Corrective Mathematics Program provided supplementary mathematics instruction to Chapter 1-eligible students in New York City nonpublic schools. Its goals were to strengthen students' understanding of mathematical concepts, to improve their ability to perform computations and solve problems, and to assist them in applying the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Government School Relationship
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