This handbook was designed to serve as a resource guide for Washington State school employees. It provides a beginning framework for addressing violence in schools, districts, and communities. It outlines Washington State laws regarding school violence, suggests curriculum resources for preventing violent acts and dealing constructively with…

One of the mandates of Quebec's Commission d'evaluation de l'enseignement collegial is to assess institutional policies on program evaluation (IPPE's), and their implementation frameworks. This document examines the Commission's mandate, aims and approach; Commission guidelines on the formulation of institutional policy on program evaluation; and…

In 1992, the Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges adopted this report on the state's accreditation, and directed the Executive Committee to work with the Accreditation Committee in order to implement its recommendations to the greatest extent possible. Suggestions concerning the composition and effectiveness of visiting teams are…

This guide explains the benefits and use of Ohio's career passport, which is designed to serve as a standard statewide vocational credential that represents individuals as completers of secondary or adult vocational programs and that is transferable across the state regardless of where a vocational completer received training. Discussed in section…

This report contains recommendations made by the Arizona Committee on Decentralization, who identified issues in the implementation of decentralization in Arizona's public schools. The report presents an overview of the definition and purposes of decentralization and findings of a survey of 4,100 Arizona public school teachers and principals…

This document deals with the need for and suggested content of a Parents and Children course for inclusion in Wisconsin's home economics program. Presented in chapter 1 is a working paper on the nature and significance of continuing concerns of families. It examines the current and desired state of affairs regarding parents and children and gaps…

The feasibility of an educational voucher plan proposed by the Pennsylvania legislature is assessed in this paper. Reasons against passing House Bill 1133 and Senate Bill 992 include the large initial cost; lack of evidence that the plan would expand choice; the fact that market forces increase inequities; the need to distinguish choice from…

This report presents Iowa's performance indicators of program quality in adult basic education (ABE) programs and describes the process by which they were developed. The performance indicators fulfill the mandate of the National Literacy Act of 1991 to serve as indicators of program quality. They were developed through a comprehensive process that…

This guide was developed to help administrators, teachers, students, parents, and the business community understand and implement tech prep programs in South Carolina. (Tech prep is a major restructuring strategy designed to meet the needs of students who want to function effectively in a technological workplace and to ensure that students are…

Mississippi loses up to one-third of its potential high school graduates between grades 9 and 12. Developing and implementing a comprehensive strategy for student recruitment are the first and most important steps in organizing an adult basic education program to serve the needs of these individuals. Recruitment requires trying as many methods as…

This document presents fiscal year 2000 budgetary recommendations for the public colleges and universities of the state of Illinois. Specific recommendations are organized as, first, those concerned with institutional support, and second, six broad goals for the first decade of the 21st century: (1) sustaining economic growth; (2) improving…

This arts resource guide is designed to serve as a companion document to the New York Learning Standards defined for each major curricular area. The guide provides teachers with information, strategies, learning experiences, sample assessments, and specific discipline materials to be used in the arts curriculum development process within each…

A project presented orientation and training for new (up to 2 years experience) Pennsylvania adult educators. It provided training to 85 new teachers through an intensive 2-day institute combining presentations on theory of adult learning with sessions on practical techniques. Two sets of regional focus groups and a preconference session at the…

Teacher Assistance Teams (TAT) can support the collaboration and empowerment of teachers, address student and schoolwide problems, provide preventive intervention for at-risk students, and identify appropriate referrals to special education. This paper describes the implementation of TAT throughout the state of Arkansas over a 3-year period.…

The highlights of research conducted by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) on the state regulation of schools and districts are summarized in this report. State education regulation can be classified into three types, depending upon whether the focus is on school inputs, processes, or outputs. Based primarily on four state case…