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Download full textMarkowitz, Joy; Larson, John C. – 1988
This report of the Preschool Evaluation Project provides developmental profiles of handicapped children who attended preschool special education programs in Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland), and estimates how effective these programs were in accelerating the development of children with various types of handicaps. The developmental…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Hearing Impairments
Potts, Meta – 1989
Project WORTH (Work Opportunity Readiness for the Homeless) is a federally funded project in Louisville, Kentucky, in which participants come to the program site from shelters via school bus or from transitional housing by public transportation. Preschool children attend day care on site. The adults participate in a varied program that includes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Coping, Daily Living Skills
Rupert, Duane F. – 1988
One aspect of the Greece (New York) Central School District's Continuing Education Division is an adult literacy program for students who enter with a reading level below the sixth grade as measured by the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) (17 percent of students). Students at this level receive instruction in one of four environments: adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Diagnostic Teaching
Literacy Assistance Center, New York, NY. – 1986
Following an introduction that states the Adult Literacy Initiative's objectives for fiscal year 1985, this final report presents the bulk of its information in sections on (1) the literacy services of the City University of New York, community-based organizations, and the New York City Board of Education; and (2) the literacy services of the New…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Friedlander, Jack – 1989
Since 1983, Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) has invested resources in a comprehensive matriculation program to help students achieve their educational objectives. In each of the 6 subsequent years, the college has added components to its matriculation program and refined others. An evaluation of the program was conducted in 1989, comparing…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Opuni, Kwame A. – 1990
STRIVE was a special instructional program which provided a nurturing, caring, intensive instructional milieu for over-aged, low-performing ninth graders, who were perceived to be at risk of dropping out of school, at Barbara Jordan High School for Careers in Houston (Texas) during the 1988-89 school year. This report evaluates the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Covariance, Attendance, Dropout Prevention
Towne, Violet A. – 1990
The collaboration between the continuing education arm of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome and the New York Association for Long Term Care Administrators in the design, development and delivery of educational programs for nursing home and adult home administrators in New York State is reported. Program content…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Agency Role, Contracts, Cooperative Programs
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1990
This document reports the findings of the 1989-90 process evaluation of the Saginaw, Michigan school district's state-funded prekindergarten program for 4-year-olds at risk of academic failure. As of January 29, 1990, a total of 255 pupils were participating in the program at 11 sites. The Michigan Early Childhood Education Preschool (MECEP)…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education, Formative Evaluation
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Federal Assistance. – 1990
This report summarizes recent activities in Ohio provided through Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Information presented includes statistics for fiscal 1989, participation trends, instructional impact, expenditure and staffing patterns, parent involvement, and 5-year trends. The first two sections of the report explain the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Child Neglect, Compensatory Education, Costs
Ellenzweig, Judith – 1990
Project SOLID START is an integrated reading program involving regular classroom, special education, and reading teachers, and parent volunteers in the Melrose, Massachusetts public schools. SOLID START supports beginning literacy in a developmental, rather than a remedial, mode. The project tests the hypothesis that a carefully structured,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students
Whelan, Carol Scott; And Others – 1990
An evaluation of a statewide dropout prevention strategy program with 13 prevention projects conducted by the Louisiana State Department of Education in the 1988-89 school year is presented. Both summative and process evaluations are described. The attitudes of 831 10th-grade students were measured using a pretest and posttest attitude survey…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Formative Evaluation
American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, VA. – 1985
The United States has the highest rate of youthful drug abuse of any industrialized country in the world. There is a growing awareness that drug and alcohol use are closely connected to other problems such as teenage suicide, adolescent pregnancy, traffic fatalities, juvenile delinquency, poor school performance, runaways, and dropouts. Youthful…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Community Role, Dropout Rate, Drug Abuse
Gemma, Anna – 1988
This review of early intervention for preschool children with learning disabilities examines: (1) definitions of learning disabilities; (2) characteristics of learning-disabled children and children at risk; (3) identification of preschool children at risk; (4) efficacy of early intervention; (4) phases of an early intervention program, including…
Descriptors: Definitions, Delivery Systems, Early Intervention, Educational Diagnosis
Nachtigal, Paul; Haas, Toni – 1988
This paper describes the emerging debate on efficiency and program quality in rural schools, explores the strengths and weaknesses of rural district consolidation, and suggests policy options for redesigning rural education. An examination of economic trends, demographics, and philosophical changes regarding rural education's purpose puts…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Consolidated Schools, Economic Change, Educational Change
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1990
This guide was developed to provide local policymakers and program managers with an approach for using performance standards as a tool for reviewing and improving performance of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs at the local level. The guide is keyed to the Program Year (PY) 1990 U.S. Department of Labor adjustment methodology for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Programs, Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs
