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Faulkner, Susan L.; And Others – 1992
This document contains 30 papers on professional development in community colleges. The following papers are included: "Effective Leadership Strategies for Planning and Implementing Tech Prep" (Bragg, Huffman); "Small Business Management-Tech Prep" (Harvey); "Educational Reform and the New Mission" (Hoerner);…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1992
This loose-leaf compendium includes three types of brief research summaries: "topical synthesis,""close-ups," and "snapshots." The single topical synthesis is entitled "School-Community Collaboration to Improve the Quality of Life for Urban Youth and Their Families" (Kathleen Cotton). Close-ups consist of…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Beers, C. David; Ott, Richard W. – 1992
The Child Development Training Consortium, a Beacon College Project directed by San Juan College (SJC) is a collaborative effort of colleges and universities in New Mexico and Arizona. The consortium's major objective is to create child development training materials for community college faculty who teach "at-risk" Native American and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Child Care Occupations, Community Colleges, Community Development
Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC. – 1992
This booklet provides practical "how-to" information to federal employees on the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM). The booklet is intended primarily for program officials who have begun to think seriously about or have already begun a TQM effort and want guidance on the training effort to support it. Background information on TQM…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Harris, Jules – 1991
The Youth Work Skills Program provided basic skills remediation, support services, and subsidized or unsubsidized work placement to out-of-school, economically disadvantaged youth aged 16-21 with demonstrated reading scores at or below the fifth-grade level. The program had three phases: basic education/vocational and career exploration, basic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Exploration, Curriculum Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Bachler, Mike; Sappe', Hoyt – 1989
This report provides results of Phase I of a project that researched the occupational area of environmental horticulture, established appropriate committees, and conducted task verification. These results are intended to guide development of a program designed to address the needs of the horticulture field. Section 1 contains general information:…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Botany, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
Ventouratos, Despina – 1993
This report evaluates Project Data-Tech, a New York City program that served 125 Haitian- and Spanish-speaking students of limited English proficiency and that was designed to improve the educational attainment of these minority children. Participating students received instruction in English as a second language; native language arts (NLA); the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development
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
Simpson, Ronald D.; Frost, Susan H. – 1993
This book examines current national and international issues tin higher education. Among issues addressed are: (1) the effect of racial, gender, and cultural issues on students and faculty; (2) the special needs of traditional age and adult freshmen; (3) the growing concerns about on- and off-campus safety; (4) the new blending of international…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Competition, Cultural Differences
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Health, Harrisburg. – 1992
This report recommends a statewide plan of action to ensure that Pennsylvania schools provide quality school health education programs. It is the culmination of a process undertaken by the Quality School Health Education Project, initiated in response to the Year 2000 national health objective on school health education. The project identified…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Millican, Juliet – 1991
This resource book is intended to help trainers working on postliteracy programs in agricultural areas of West Africa. Its primary focus is on the role of literacy in the management of irrigation systems and farmer cooperatives and on program administration activities such as recordkeeping, registration, and credit. However, strategies for meeting…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education, Classroom Techniques
Jacobs, Alan, Ed.; Walters, Jim, Ed. – 1989
As a result of a Technology Retreat sponsored by the Maricopa Community Colleges (Arizona) in 1988, action/research groups were formed to explore the various challenges of implementing instructional technology effectively. This interim report reviews the work of the groups, with a summary report from each, as follows: (1) "Alternative Funding…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1993
The mission of today's school library media center is to help prepare students to enter the information age of the 21st century. To carry out this mission, library media specialists, administrators, and teachers must ensure that students can effectively locate, access, interpret, evaluate, and communicate information. The school library media…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Copyrights, Cultural Differences
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Academic Senate. – 1993
In 1992, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) adopted the Student Equity Policy requiring all districts in the community college system to develop a Student Equity Plan (SEP) to ensure that the composition of students who enroll, are retained, transfer, or achieve their occupational goals in the CCC reflects the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Planning, Community Colleges
Farrell, Virginia, Comp. – 1994
Cuyahoga Community College's (CCC) Unified Technologies Center (UTC) collaborated with three Cleveland area manufacturing companies in a workplace literacy project. The project provided job-related mathematics and communications programs for 302 employees who needed basic skills upgrading to improve their job performance. The project…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
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