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InterAmerica Research Associates, Rosslyn, VA. – 1984
An overview of classroom and administrative issues related to the education of language minority students in the United States is presented in two sections. The section on classroom issues focuses on four topics: teaching methodologies for English as a second language; the features, titles, and sources of language proficiency assessment…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Bilingual Education
American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities, Rexburg, ID. – 1985
Six talks from a conference on private higher education are presented. In "Regulating the Private University in the Name of Civil Rights," Robert A. Destro considers the "prevailing philosophy" of civil rights enforcement and developments since 1964. "AAPICU and 'The Civil Rights Act of 1984,'" by Bruce C. Hafen,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Role, Church Related Colleges, Civil Rights
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1984
This Congressional report contains testimony given during the last of six days of hearings pertaining to reauthorization of the Older Americans Act of 1965. The focus of the day's hearings was on the insights of various administrators, advocates, and academics concerning the past, present, and future of the delivery of services to older adults…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Advocacy, Aging (Individuals)
Simonson, Joy R.; Menzer, Jeffrey A. – 1984
Case histories of Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) projects are presented, along with information on WEEA's mandate, operation, and new directions. The WEEA projects support the development of curricula and training materials for the education of females at pre-elementary to postsecondary schools, along with efforts of private sector and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Affirmative Action, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Jones, Ramona C. – 1976
Summarizing the results of the Minnesota Indian Education Hearings and the methods used to generate analysis of the transcripts for the State Board of Education and its subcommittee on Indian Education, this document presents tabular and narrative data re: content analysis; statewide findings; findings for each hearing site (Minneapolis, St. Paul,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administration, American Indians, Ancillary Services
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1977
This monograph, one of a series on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program models, is designed to make available to prime sponsor staffs the lessons some of their colleagues feel they have learned from service in CETA and previous programs. The content is in seven sections. The first discusses the philosophy and purpose of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Contracts, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Dorken, Herbert; LaRocca, Joseph – 1977
Major research findings are synthesized and innovations of current concern to vocational rehabilitation professionals are reported in this paper on national health insurance (NHI) and rehabilitation. Discussion covers the following topics: the concept of insurance, forms of health insurance, issues arising from hearings on NHI, perspectives of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Lambert, Roger H.; Nelson, Eugene S. – 1975
The evaluation scheme proposed here is intended to serve as a format and guide for a third party evaluation of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Title I programs. The guide begins with a brief section presenting an introduction to evaluation, the evaluation format for Title I, and a flow chart of evaluative activities. The remainder…
Descriptors: Adults, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1976
The document is a reference to laws enacted to amend the Social Security Act and to laws which directly affect the programs under that act. Intended for use by the Senate Finance Committee, the document supplements the "Compilation of the Social Security Laws," published periodically by the Social Security Administration. The reference…
Descriptors: Blindness, Day Care Centers, Developmental Disabilities, Employment Level
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Lapayese, Yvette V. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2005
Teacher insurgency is on the rise as critical educators refuse to accept the authoritarianism of English-only reforms by struggling to undermine current educational policies while at the same time advancing alternatives. Federal hijacking of language policies -- presently manifested by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) -- is being met with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Educational Change, Resistance to Change
Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo. Dept. of Distributive Education. – 1981
As part of the Cooperative Vocational Professional Development and Training Project, this handbook has been developed to help vocational cooperative education coordinators in Michigan to cope with new and expanding work programs in the community, and new and expanding federal and state laws, rules, and regulations. Following an introduction to the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Behavioral Objectives, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship
Reynolds, William Bradford – 1981
The equal employment opportunity policies of the Reagan administration may be summarized in the following manner: while the administration will not retreat from the historic commitment to enforce federal civil rights laws, it will no longer insist upon, or in any way support, the use of quotas or any numerical or statistical formula designed to…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation
Northup, James P. – 1980
This book brings together materials, cases, and opinions regarding the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974; analyzes these materials; and examines their impact on employer personnel policies. Also considered are the amendments to the 1967…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Age Discrimination, Business, Court Litigation
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
This volume contains four interim reports of the Career Intern Program (CIP) replication portion of the Alternative Education Demonstration operated by Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America and evaluated by the National Institute of Education. (The CIP is an alternative high school serving dropouts and students at a high risk of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Organizations
National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1981
Several federal laws that address the issue of sex equity in education and employment do so in part by placing personnel in official and advisory positions at the state and local level to effect equity. In vocational education, Public Law 94-482 mandates vocational education sex equity personnel (in most states entitled "sex equity…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Educational Discrimination
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