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Download full textMontone, Christopher L.; Loeb, Michael I. – 2000
Elementary two-way immersion (TWI) programs continue to proliferate throughout the United States, but the number of successfully implemented secondary TWI programs remains small. Many districts with TWI cohorts that are reaching the upper elementary grades must now make complex decisions about whether and how to extend their programs into middle…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interviews, Language of Instruction, Parent Participation
Creech, Joseph D. – 1999
The percentage of adults with high school diplomas is higher today than 10 years ago in every Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) state, but most SREB states will not reach the goal of 90 percent of all adults with high school diplomas or equivalent by 2000. The change is the result of state and local efforts to identify and attract more…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Opportunities, English (Second Language)
Agency for International Development (IDCA), Washington, DC. Center for Development Information and Evaluation. – 1999
In Guatemala, many girls attend no school. A project by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Basic Education Strengthening (BEST), demonstrated that improving educational quality is the best approach to enhancing girls' participation. BEST included a Girls Education Program (GEP) activity. Under the BEST/GEP umbrella,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
Martinez, Paul – FE Matters, 1999
The report provides a survey of staff development (SD) managers in 505 English, Welsh, and Scottish further education colleges (227 responses). The objective was to determine how much SD has changed and matured since incorporation, and how much it has created benchmarks. Findings indicated that few staff developers had a relevant SD qualification.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Faculty, Colleges
Hazell, Pat – 1998
The outcomes attained by Australian adults enrolled in competency-based Certificate in Adult Foundation Education (CAFE) courses were examined. Special attention was paid to the outcomes achieved by students in the two lowest of the CAFE program's four levels. The main data sources were as follows: literature review; enrollment data from the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Competency Based Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet examines adult education needs and opportunities for incarcerated persons from the perspective of experts and former inmates. The booklet considers adult learning a basic human right and a crucial step towards the reintegration and the rehabilitation of prisoners and that there is a great demand for learning in correctional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Civil Liberties
O'Brien, Connie Lyle; O'Brien, John – 2000
This paper traces the history of person-centered planning in programming for individuals with disabilities. It begins by describing the context shared by the first four methods of person-centered planning to emerge (Personal Futures Planning, Individual Design Sessions, Getting To Know You, and Twenty-Four Hour Planning) and some of their…
Descriptors: Adults, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Disabilities
Dickard, Norris, Ed. – 2002
In February 2000, the Benton Foundation, with the Center for Children and Technology, released "The E-Rate in America: A Tale of Four Cities." This report is a continuation of that work. Two overarching concerns have emerged in the current policy climate: it is imperative that the E-Rate program is structured in such a way as to maximize…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Callahan, Carolyn M.; Tomlinson, Carol A.; Hunsaker, Scott L.; Bland, Lori C.; Moon, Tonya – 1995
This report presents results of a series of studies documenting current practices in the evaluation of gifted programs and investigating the factors which make evaluation more useful to decision-makers. The investigation involved establishing several databases containing three kinds of information: (1) abstracts of articles relating to evaluation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Huxman, Frankie; Klassen, Eydie; Koontz, Barbara; Nottingham, Cheryl; Vierthaler, Charlene – 1998
This is a report on a school-wide ethnographic study of intervention strategies for at-risk students in kindergarten through second grade. A group of 5 teachers from an elementary school of approximately 250 students in a Midwest community of about 18,000 people (2 first-grade teachers, 2 second-grade teachers, and 1 music teacher) comprised the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Early Intervention, Elementary School Teachers, Enrichment Activities
Bennett, Darla – 1999
This guide describes the benefits of and implementation procedures for educator externships, worksite experiences that help teachers improve their teaching. Benefits for teachers, business mentors, and students are described. Teachers become more aware of the changing competencies, skills, and attitudes needed in the workplace, establish links…
Descriptors: Competence, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs
Boak, Cathy; Blackburn, Jean – 1998
This guide is intended for individuals and organizations interested in hosting online conferences. For the purposes of this guide, a host is the administrator or manager of a conferencing system and of the conferences held on that system. Eight sections cover the following important processes for hosting online conferences: (1) determining…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software Selection, Computer System Design
Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC. – 1999
The Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR's) College Libraries Committee began its study of the innovative uses of technology on college campuses in the spring of 1998. A letter was sent to heads of libraries of colleges and mid-sized universities in the United States encouraging librarians who felt their institutions had used…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Change, Computer Uses in Education
Wielenga, Douwe – 2000
Since 1997, the Amsterdam Faculty of Education (EFA) has been officially recognized as a center for experimental teacher education. This paper describes the development of an assessment system and a World Wide Web-based portfolio system to help students take responsibility for their learning and their competence at three consecutive integrative…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
This bulletin contains a report on the development of the rural junior high school. Since their introduction in 1909, junior high schools have steadily advanced in the favor of school administrators, and they now seem likely to cause a revolution in the organization of American secondary education. Among many other advantages claimed for them, it…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Secondary Education, Junior High Schools, Rural Schools
