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Download full textYarrington, Roger; And Others – 1982
This series of Junior College Resource Reviews focuses on the community college's role in literacy development. After Roger Yarrington's overview of the topic, Robert McCabe and Susan Skidmore consider "The Literacy Crisis and American Education." In light of the changing nature of work and the severe decline in the communication skills of youth,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Basic Skills, College Role
Blai, Boris – 1979
Much of the institutional research conducted at Harcum Junior College, a private women's college, has focused on measuring the educational outcomes of students in relation to the college's objectives. Past studies have sought to determine how well Harcum prepares transfer curriculum students by analyzing rates of baccalaureate degree attainment,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria
Nolan, Edwin J. – 1979
Although junior colleges were originally established to provide the first two years of collegiate instruction, the mission of today's community college includes providing not only transfer education, but also certificate or associate degree vocational programs, adult continuing education, and community services. Therefore, the community college…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, College Role, Community Colleges
Dochen, Carol; Johnson, De – 1980
Over a period of three years an experimental program was conducted at Southwest Texas State University to help increase the number of successful completions of admission contract conditions by transfer students with low grade point averages. An increase in the number of students successfully meeting the required grade point average of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Behavior Patterns, Credit Courses, Educational Research
FRANKEL, EDWARD – 1966
PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT IS AN INTERIM EVALUATION OF A NEW YORK CITY PROGRAM TO TRANSFER NINTH-GRADE PUPILS FROM 38 TRUNCATED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS TO ACADEMIC HIGH SCHOOLS. AS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD A CITY-WIDE SYSTEM OF 4-YEAR COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOLS, THE TRANSFER PROGRAM ATTEMPTED TO IMPROVE THE ETHNIC BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS AND TO MOTIVATE THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attitudes, Curriculum Development
Bencich, John D.; And Others – 1979
This two-part report considers the implications of Florida's Post-Secondary Reorganization Bill for community colleges. Part I first presents the relevant sections of the Bill, which mandate that college students' computation and communication skills be tested at entry; that colleges provide remediation and counseling appropriate to students'…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Community Colleges, Counseling Services, Educational Responsibility
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report describes the events leading up to the desegregation of the public elementary and junior high schools in Syracuse and the effects and implications of the desegregation process. School officials were influenced in favor of school desegregation by the negative results of an extensive compensatory education program at a segregated junior…
Descriptors: Classroom Desegregation, Compensatory Education, Data, De Facto Segregation
Mahan, Thomas W. – 1968
The final technical report summarizes the development, operations, and effectiveness of Project Concern, Hartford's program of suburban school placement for inner-city children. This approach to educational improvement through busing disadvantaged students to neighboring towns was funded in part by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Lee, Glenda E. – 1975
Student characteristics and educational destinations of all the reverse transfer students from five state universities who were admitted to five community colleges during one calendar year (N=459) were studied to re-assess and define the "retread function" of community colleges. A group of 245 native community college students were randomly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, College Transfer Students, Counseling
Coats, William D.; And Others – 1972
This paper is based on a compilation of the first two phases of longitudinal research on desegregation effects now being conducted in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. The purpose of the Phase I study was to obtain baseline data during the spring of 1971 prior to the desegregation of the Kalamazoo Public Schools, which was initiated in the fall of…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Classroom Desegregation, Classroom Observation Techniques, Desegregation Effects
Cabrillo Coll., Aptos, CA. Office of Institutional Research. – 2002
This document is a report on the self-assessment of the 2000-2001 Partnership for Excellence (PFE) program conducted by Cabrillo College (California). The PFE program addresses the community college's goals, with direct emphasis on transfer programs, degrees and certificates awarded, student course completion, workforce development, and basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Associate Degrees, Basic Skills, College Role
Cookson, Peter W., Jr.; Shroff, Sonali M. – 1997
School choice plans have been widely adopted, and most urban areas have a limited choice plan of some sort. This digest presents an overview of different choice strategies by reviewing the experiences of several urban areas. Minnesota has statewide open enrollment for all students, making all public schools throughout the state open to all…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs
Straub, Alicia, Comp. – 1997
This annotated bibliography of articles and books related to school choice contains 94 annotations. Included are research reviews, case studies, analyses of policy and practice, collections of studies and articles, reports on research conducted in particular school districts, and arguments in support of and against school choice. Various forms of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Charter Schools, Citations (References), Educational Change
Thompson, Susan – 2003
Southwest Texas State (SWT) University has developed a system of communication with two-year community colleges that aims to provide information about new student performance and identify student needs. About 60% of the 7,000 new undergraduate students first enrolling in SWT each year are transfer students. In 1992, about 60% of new students at…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), College Credits, College Transfer Students
Sheldon, Debra; Yong, Channing – 2001
This is a report on how California community college districts have been using their allocation of Partnership for Excellence (PFE) dollars for the 2000-2001 fiscal year. Information is gathered from all 108 California community colleges. The colleges report how they have used PFE funds to address the following five community college focus areas…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Role, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic)
