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Simpson, Elizabeth J. – 1981
This report examines matters about which people will need to be knowledgeable in the 1980s to be intelligent consumers and effective homemakers. Its assumptions are based on an examination of work in the field of home economics and related areas of future issues relative to families, publications dealing with social trends and technological…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Child Rearing, Clothing Instruction
Educational Improvement Center of Northwest New Jersey, Morris Plains. – 1980
This publication proposes the use of a goal-based curriculum to infuse strategies and address goals that meet the career development needs of all students. Its intent is to serve as an example of how outcomes expressed as goals look, developmentally, from grade K through 14. In the matrix, (1) each major goal is broken out into more definitive…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Education, Communication Skills, Community Responsibility
Arizona State Board of Directors for Junior Colleges, Phoenix. – 1979
This six-part report summarizes, using over 30 graphs and charts, fiscal and enrollment data on the 13 Arizona community college districts for fiscal year (FY) 1978-79. Part I identifies the members of the State Board of Directors for the Community Colleges of Arizona, presents the Board's statement of philosophy, and delineates the Board's…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), College Faculty, College Programs, Community Colleges
Beasley, Georgia Blair, Comp. – 1979
This annotated bibliography is an attempt to provide a fairly extensive listing of available resource materials related to home economics. It does not attempt to include materials listed in readily available catalogs produced by commercial sources, government agencies, or other agencies which normally supply their lists to teachers. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Clothing Instruction, Consumer Education
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Chern, Hermine J.; And Others – 1976
The evaluations of 26 career education programs which operated in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania school district from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1976 are contained in this report. Generally the projects achieved their objectives, with only a few exceptions. Indications are that the career development programs currently in progress in Philadelphia…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Bilingual Education, Career Education
Hedges, Larry V., Ed.; Schneider, Barbara, Ed. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2005
Schools are complex social settings where students, teachers, administrators, and parents interact to shape a child's educational experience. Any effort to improve educational outcomes for America's children requires a dynamic understanding of the environments in which children learn. In "The Social Organization of Schooling", editors Larry Hedges…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Teacher Effectiveness, Learning Activities, School Culture
Packer, Arnold C.; Brainard, Scott – 2003
Foremost among efforts over the last decade to improve the work-related skills required of all young people to meet the demands of American's workplaces was the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills Commission (SCANS). Integral to SCANS were its three-part foundation (basic skills, thinking skills, and personal qualities) and these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
MacAllum, Keith; Johnson, Amy Bell – 2002
The Central Educational Center (CEC) in Newnan, Georgia, is a unique partnership of local businesses and industries, the Coweta County Schools, and West Central Technical College. The CEC's programs were designed to address key concerns of Coweta County educators, parents, business owners and managers, college administrators, and students. The…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Adjustment (to Environment), Articulation (Education)
Hoines, Marit Johnsen, Ed.;; Fuglestad, Anne Berit, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This document contains the fourth volume of the proceedings of the 28th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Inclusion and Diversity". This volume features 64 research report papers: (1) Situated or Abstract: The Effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equations (Mathematics), Teaching Methods, Misconceptions
Spratley, Ernell; Johnson, Ayah; Sochalski, Julie; Fritz, Marshall; Spencer, William – 2001
The characteristics, education, employment patterns, salaries, job satisfaction, and other characteristics of registered nurses (RNs) across the United States were examined in a national survey. Of the initial sample of approximately 54,000 of the nation's more than 3,066,000 licensed RNs, 35,579 RNs (72%) submitted usable responses. From 1980 to…
Descriptors: Age, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Colleges
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2001
Since the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) was enacted in 1998, considerable efforts have been expended at the federal, state, and local levels to effect the transition to the new system mandated by WIA. Several states phased into the new system in July 1999, and all other states followed in mid-2000. Active participation by partner agencies has…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Career Centers
Kimmel, Jean, Ed.; Hoffman, Emily P., Ed. – 2002
These six research papers were presented as public lectures: "Federal Child Care Policy" (David M. Blau) outlined the role of the federal government in child care, the failure of market-based care programs, and the ideal goals of a federal child care policy as well as its cost (4 tables; 41 references); "Thinking About Child Care…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Child Care, Child Development, Child Rearing
Shore, Sue; Searle, Jean; Falk, Ian; Johnston, Betty; Ovens, Carolyn; Riddell, Christine – 2002
In 2001-2002, the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium conducted 26 national investigations with findings in the following areas: (1) population competence; (2) linking literacy and numeracy into training; (3) professional support for educators and trainers; and (4) policy and systemic issues. All the projects were intended…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 2002
The state of Washington's workforce development system agenda focused in 2002 on these four goals: (1) closing a perceived job skills gap; (2) training incumbent and dislocated workers in order to prepare them for changes in the economy; (3) achieving wage progression for low income individuals; and (4) integrating workforce development programs…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Agenda Setting, Basic Skills
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Desrochers, Donna M. – 2002
The growing importance of education in overall economic growth and individual opportunity has necessitated that education reformers address the need for the additional and better human capital needed to foster overall growth in the new knowledge-based economy. Education reformers must also work to reduce the growing differences in family incomes…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Access to Education, Adjustment (to Environment), Articulation (Education)
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