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Jackson, Shirley F. – 1999
Because an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teacher in Pennsylvania observed from the intake questionnaires completed by her students that many ESL students lack short- and long-term goal-setting skills, she undertook an action research project to help ESL students develop the short- and long-term goal-setting skills needed for educational,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Walker, Mary Margaret – 2000
This document examines the operation of the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee/State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC/SOICC) network in 1976-2000. Presented first is an overview of the NOICC/SOICC network that begins by explaining the NOICC's relationship with the SOICCs in activities related to job…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Cooperative Planning
Smart, Linda; Fennessy, Ben – 2001
It is increasingly necessary to encourage lifelong learning in order to keep pace with the Information Age. As learners increasingly take charge of their own learning, however, they will require support to enable them to achieve their goals--and a variety of learning opportunities will need to be created. Learners' interests, imagination, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Programs, Computer Oriented Programs
2000
This document contains the six of the seven keynote speeches from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. "IVETA (International Vocational Education and Training Association) 2000 Conference 6-9 August 2000" (K.Y. Yeung) discusses the objectives and activities…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration
Smith, Clifton L.; Edmunds, Niel A. – 1999
This guide is intended to help career and technical education teachers perform the new roles expected of them in view of the new emphasis on school-to-careers programs. The following are among the topics discussed in the guide's nine chapters: role of the career and technical educator; providing career guidance; integrating academic and career and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Relations
Lindman, Erick L.; Hutchins, Clayton D.; Morphet, Edgar L.; Rellke, Theodore L. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
This study of State Provisions for Financing Public School Capital Outlay Programs has been conducted in accordance with a resolution requesting the study. It constitutes the first comprehensive effort to analyze existing policies and practices of States which participate in the financing of local schoolhouse construction. It also develops and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Public Schools, School Construction, Educational Facilities Planning
Hatcher, Halene – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1950
As never before, nations the world over are considering conservation a problem of vital concern to all peoples and an obligation which must be accepted by each person. It is becoming increasingly recognized that steps leading toward the establishment of harmonious relations between man and his environment will go a long way toward resolving the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Public Opinion, Role of Education, Educational Practices
Brown, Willis C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1956
One of the outstanding characteristics of American secondary education is the emphasis that it places upon individual and social needs. Most educators endorse student extraclass activities as an important way to obtain program flexibility, meet individual needs, and attain desirable education objectives. Among the purposes of this publication are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Extracurricular Activities, Secondary Education, High School Students
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Americanization is in the end a task for the individual citizen and not for the Government. The individual can be successful in so human a problem only by having a sympathetic knowledge of this task and of those with whom he must deal. To supply at least the foundations of this knowledge is the purpose of this book. The contents are taken largely…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, Guides
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Lee, Rebecca – Educational Perspectives, 2002
From its beginnings 25 years ago, the University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu (UH-West O'ahu) has strived to provide its students, mostly working adults with an average age of 32 years, with easy access to classes and advising by maintaining flexible class schedules and office hours. When UH-West O'ahu initiated a distance education program in 1981, the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses, Workshops
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Kajioka, Vicki; Shiroma, Donna; Tisdell, Debi; Kanemori, Lena; Tsuda, Jean – Educational Perspectives, 2002
The E-School Technology Innovation Challenge Grant of 1996 was the genesis of the Department of Education's (DOE's) efforts to initiate a multi-prong approach to bring standards-based curriculum to the children of Hawai'i and use technology to upgrade professional development for its teachers. In this article, the authors describe how various…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Information Technology, Telecommunications
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Bucci, Terri Teal; Petrosino, Anthony J. – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2004
The 2002 National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Distinguished Achievement Awards, sponsored by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), were awarded to six teacher education programs across the United States. The awards recognize institutions that exemplify successful integration of the National Educational…
Descriptors: Awards, Educational Technology, Teacher Educators, Standards
Wisconsin State Dept. of Industry, Labor and Human Relations, Madison. – 1995
This document details Wisconsin's state plan for implementation of activities mandated by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 and funded by a grant from the National School-to-Work Opportunities Act. The plan is divided into 23 sections dealing with the following topics: geographical areas; local support/expansion of school-to-work…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Career Counseling
Felstehausen, Ginny; And Others – 1995
A project was conducted to identify outcomes and procedures for measuring the occupational competency of students completing a coherent sequence of courses in career and technology education (C&TE) programs throughout Texas. The major objectives of phase 2 of the project were as follows: validate criteria for a career portfolio, integrate the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Articulation (Education)
Hamilton, Mary Agnes; Hamilton, Stephen F. – 1993
This document summarizes the accomplishments of the first year of the Cornell Youth Apprenticeship Demonstration Project in Broome County, New York, a program in which six high schools and six employers in the Binghamton area have joined forces to prepare noncollege-bound young people for careers in manufacturing and engineering technology,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Check Lists, Competence, Competency Based Education
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