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Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1999
This final report discusses the outcomes of a 4-year project designed to identify all children in Kentucky who are deaf-blind and provide training and technical assistance to improve the quality of special education and related services in Kentucky for children ages birth through 21 who are deaf-blind. The children are in integrated environments…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems
Alssid, Julian L.; Gruber, David; Mazzeo, Christopher – 2000
As entitlements for students, "Average Daily Attendance" funding (ADA), Title I and Pell Grants can provide a stable funding base to support college bridge programs targeted to at-risk students and dropouts. In most states, school districts can re-enroll out-of-school students and draw additional ADA money from the state. College bridge…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), College Bound Students, College School Cooperation
Workforce Strategy Center, Brooklyn, NY. – 2000
Focus of this guide is a project to identify best practices and programs in preparing foster care youth for career opportunities and economic self-sufficiency. Foster care program context is described as an economy characterized by jobs clustering into two categories (high wage positions with a continuing career pathway and low wage entry-level…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Development
Bos, Candace S.; Vaughn, Sharon – 2002
This book provides information about general approaches to learning and teaching, offering descriptions of methods and procedures and focusing on classroom and behavior management, consultation, and working with parents and professionals. The 12 chapters include: (1) "The Teaching-Learning Process" (e.g., characteristics of students with…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development
Advances in Education Research, 1999
This volume presents selected research articles related to early intervention for college programs. This is part of a two volume set designed to showcase some of the best cutting edge research on early intervention programs. Providing an introduction to the types of these programs, this issue: presents research on why the programs are necessary;…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, College Attendance, College Preparation
Binion, Mary, Ed. – 1993
This compilation of presentations from RESNA's conference proceedings focused on the progress and potential of assistive and rehabilitation technology for individuals with disabilities and ways that RESNA members could help these ideas to be realized. Papers were presented on the following topics: (1) service delivery and public policy issues; (2)…
Descriptors: Adults, Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Orkwis, Raymond; DeCarme, Judi; Glover, Jeanne – 2000
This 5-volume directory describes more than 1,000 discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. The projects are grouped into sections representing the seven program areas of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments (1997), Part D. This…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Early Intervention, Education Work Relationship
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Lehmann, Wolfgang – Journal of Youth Studies, 2004
Despite late modernity and risk society discourses about the decreasing influence of structural factors on educational and occupational attainment, it has also been argued that socio-economic background and gender continue to influence individuals' school-work transitions. Comparing youth apprentices and academic high school students in Canada and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Social Structure, Socioeconomic Background
Dedmond, Rebecca M. – Principal Leadership, 2005
Personalized learning: Everyone knows it needs to happen, but how? It is one thing to believe in the importance of high school reform. It is quite another to embrace a system that helps every student leave high school with a diploma and plans for postsecondary education or training that lead to productive and self-sufficient adulthoods. This…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Lifelong Learning, Transitional Programs, High Schools
Tennessee State Board of Education, 2006
This 2006 Annual Joint Report of the State Board of Education and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission identifies four joint priorities and nine associated goals addressing areas of need in both student learning and educator development for the advancement of education in Tennessee. The joint priorities and initiatives focus on points of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Effectiveness
Kearns, Donna; And Others – 1993
This manual contains basic information to guide vocational counselors for special populations as they work with students enrolled in vocational programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels. It begins with a brief overview of the role of the vocational counselor for special populations. The survey, the responses to which formed the basis of…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Career Counseling, Career Development, Coordination
Utah State Univ., Logan. Dept. of Communicative Disorders. – 1996
This final report presents the outcomes of Project INSITE, a family-centered home intervention model designed to provide training to early intervention/childhood professionals working with infants and young children with multidisability sensory impairments and their families. In the INSITE model, an early intervention professional visits the home…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems
McDonnell, John; And Others – 1996
This text is intended to provide new and practicing professionals with an introduction to the strategies necessary to support the transition of students with moderate and severe disabilities from school to community life. It offers recommendations for designing and implementing middle school, high school, and post-high school programs, addressing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Curriculum Development
Krawetz, Nancy, Comp. – 1995
The seventh in a series of federally supported modules for training paraprofessional school personnel working with students with disabilities, this module presents information on assisting individuals with disabilities in their transition from school to adult life. Both a facilitator's edition and a student's edition are provided. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
West Virginia State Dept. of Education, Charleston. Office of Special Education Administration. – 1995
This guide presents recommended practices for instruction of students with special needs, based on the premise that students should be educated according to individual needs, not according to a categorical exceptionality label. The guide presents principles applicable to both special and general education classrooms and is organized around six…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Change, Classroom Environment
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