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Allen, Kathryn G. – 2002
This report reviews work by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), which evaluated the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), including whether children are being enrolled inappropriately in SCHIP rather than in Medicaid, and states' progress in reducing the number of uninsured children. This…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Enrollment, Evaluation Methods
ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 2001
The CRitical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheet describes resources related to summer bridge programs. As state and federal policies increase access to higher education, many institutions have experimented with summer bridge programs to aid new populations in the transition from high school to college. This CRIB Sheet provides an overview of bridge…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Students, Disabilities, Educational Research
Dillon, Paul H. – 2001
This is a report analyzing the multiple community college attendance patterns of students from nine colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District (California) from 1990-2000. The assessment utilizes the Multiple College Index (MCI), which is a measure based on the proportion of units a student earns at different colleges. The study…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, College Role, Community Colleges
Moll, Anne M. – 2003
This book explores the cortical issues related to differentiation of instruction for students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms. Included in the book is a step-by-step decision making process for developing, implementing, and assessing instruction that is differentiated for the levels of learners presented in any teaching situation. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Plank, Stephen B.; Young, Estelle – 2000
Comprehensive school reform efforts are an increasingly visible part of the educational landscape. Policymakers, educators, and researchers are eager to assess the effectiveness of these models, especially regarding their utility in the most troubled settings. This paper reports results from one such reform, the Talent Development Middle School…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Eastin, Delaine; Hatamiya, Lon; Johnson, Grantland; Nussbaum, Thomas J. – 2000
Provides public and system policy recommendations to state and local elected officials, governing bodies, and administrators responsible for the changes needed to create an integrated, comprehensive workforce development system that will sustain California's economic growth. Public policy recommendations include: workforce development services…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Employment
Wang, Margaret C.; Haertel, Geneva D.; Walberg, Herbert J. – 1998
Local schools and school districts lack organized information on school effectiveness to select programs and practices to meet their specific program improvement and implementation needs. Critical program features, implementation and training requirements, program costs, program-delivery systems, program impacts, and a host of other relevant…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Douglas, Elaine – 1999
Plain Talk is a community-based initiative designed to assist neighborhood groups and residents in creating and implementing locally acceptable and effective strategies to protect sexually active youth from pregnancy. Plain Talk aims to affect individual, neighborhood, and community behavior through a process that focuses on helping adults develop…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Community Programs, Early Parenthood
Fiester, Leila – 1995
The second research and evaluation conference of the Annie E. Casey Foundation attracted many participants from the public and private sectors. In spite of their diverse backgrounds and approaches to evaluation, the participants shared a sense that researchers and evaluators need to find better ways to collect and use information. The primary…
Descriptors: Conferences, Evaluation Methods, Policy Formation, Program Development
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Vartenisian, John P. – 1998
This study is a retrospective examination of elements that influenced one elementary school staff to initiate and implement a school-wide innovation in their reading program in 1990-91. This school served 315 preschool children through grade three in a small town set in the rural countryside. Case study methodology was used to discover how the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Early Intervention, Educational Change
Bradshaw, Paula – 2001
Reading Recovery has proved to be an effective intervention for meeting the needs of at-risk first graders. When Reading Recovery is not fully implemented in a school, the teacher then assumes responsibility for intervention. This project addresses how a regular education, first grade classroom teacher can best meet the needs of first grade…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Intervention, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Wilson, John Dewar – 2001
In responding to the emerging challenges to education in Asia and the Pacific in this new century, this Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) book series, "Educational Innovation for Development," is launched to reflect a knowledge base of rethinking on roles of education in development. The series…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
McLain, Barbara – 2002
During the 2000-2001 school year, the Washington State Institute for Public Policy conducted a study of how public high schools in Washington State are responding to state education reform. One aspect of the study was the experiences of high schools with various strategies to increase student engagement in learning. This paper summarizes study…
Descriptors: Career Development, Case Studies, Educational Change, High School Students
Dahir, Carol, Ed. – 2001
Recognizing the importance of the need for effective career planning, the United States Army, in conjunction with the Council of Economic Development, conducted a forum to focus on this issue. What emerged was a program called Planning for Life, which annually recognizes outstanding career planning programs at the state and national level. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Planning, Demonstration Programs
Community Colleges for International Development, Inc. – 2001
This is a report on a workshop held in Hawaii with representatives from United States community college and the Thai Ministry of Education to help form the East-West Consortium for Community College Development in Thailand. Recommendations from the workshop included plans for a U.S. community college training team to visit Thailand and help begin…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administrator Role, Articulation (Education), College Role
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