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Education Trust, 2023
When Black and Latino students are given advanced opportunities, they thrive alongside their peers. However, only a fraction of eligible students is enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) Biology, Chemistry, and Physics courses, which means that most Black and Latino students are being denied vital learning opportunities that can set them up for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, Disproportionate Representation, Equal Education
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2020
The "IDRA Newsletter" serves as a vehicle for communication with educators, school board members, decision-makers, parents, and the general public concerning the educational needs of all children across the United States. The focus of this issue is "Teaching Quality." Contents include: (1) State Policy Recommendations for…
Descriptors: State Policy, Teacher Shortage, Educational Policy, Alternative Teacher Certification
Melnicoe, Hannah; Koedel, Cory; Ramanathan, Arun – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
Voters in Marin County have long been willing to pass parcel taxes to fund their schools. In 2016, taxes faced unprecedented opposition from local activists; taxes in Kentfield and Mill Valley were defeated or passed by previously unheard-of narrow margins, respectively. What changed? This case study uses district financial and demographic data as…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Taxes, Retirement Benefits
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2012
In partnership with the Urban League of Greater Miami, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released "Teacher Quality Roadmap: Improving Policies and Practices in Miami," an in-depth study of the work rules Miami-Dade teachers. This look at the state of teacher policies in Miami-Dade County Public Schools explores the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Feedback (Response), Public Schools, Teacher Effectiveness
American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2009
This toolkit is designed to support you in building partnerships with the business community. It includes a series of fact sheets you can distribute to employers that discuss the value in hiring plus 50 workers. Individual sections contain footnotes. (Contains 5 web resources.)
Descriptors: Business, Outreach Programs, School Business Relationship, Employers
Leon, David J. – 1993
This booklet on mentoring of minority students and faculty by majority students and faculty presents information on mentoring, its background and problems associated with it. The document follows a recent joint statement on the issue by the National Education Association and the American Association of University Professors. An overview of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Recruitment
Newton, Greg – 1986
This workbook presents the essential principles of successful marketing and applies the proven strategies used by the private sector to attract customers for their products to the recruitment of clients for employment and training programs. It also provides the tools and how-to's to develop recruitment strategies. Informative materials, lists of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Programs, Job Training, Marketing
Association for Retarded Citizens, Arlington, TX. – 1985
The handbook focuses on ways in which local Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) groups can meet the needs of young parents with retarded children. The importance of recruiting young parents is stressed, and perceptions of these parents toward the ARC are considered. Local ARC units are advised about ways to find young parents in the community,…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Mental Retardation, Organizations (Groups), Parent Associations
Sparks, Sherrill – 1982
This guidebook is one in the Target Topic Series developed to highlight issues and concerns related to effective community education operation. It is intended for the community educator who is responsible for working with the community education program staff--both paid and volunteer. A pretest covers material discussed in the guidebook. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Inservice Education, Pretests Posttests
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Tracy, Marianne, Ed.; And Others – 1986
This booklet describes four strategies used in successful recruitment and motivational programs for Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) participants: (1) locate potential participants whose degree of disenfranchisement may be so great that they have given up and dropped out; (2) raise participants' expectations so that they can exercise more…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Motivation Techniques, Postsecondary Education, Program Descriptions
Moorman, Barbara; Olmsted, Barney – 1985
This manual for managers, supervisors, and union representatives presents information on how to implement a comprehensive program of voluntary reduced work time (V-Time) options for employees. (V-Time allows full-time employees to reduce work hours temporarily while retaining benefits.) It reports mainly the experiences of two counties and two…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Part Time Employment, Program Design, Program Development
Sawyer, Douglas – 1984
This handbook is intended to help Adult Basic Education (ABE) volunteers in recruiting students for ABE programs. General information on the College of the Albemarle and on continuing education programs appears first. A glossary of adult learning terminoloqy and a brief history of ABE follow. The next section discusses four basic recruitment…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Patterson, John; And Others – 1994
During the past decade, community-serving organizations have encountered increasing pressure to implement comprehensive screening of program staff to reduce the risks inherent in working with vulnerable populations, such as young children. This screening "tool kit" suggests a process of staff screening based on the requirements of the position,…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Organizations, Employment Interviews, Legal Responsibility
Welliver, M. Margaret – 1983
This handbook is designed to assist educators in establishing a project that uses volunteers as tutors in an adult education program. It is based on the experiences of a model project conducted by the State College Area School using Kiwanis volunteers. A section on recruitment/publicity lists the activities conducted and resulting publicity items.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Bibliographies, Evaluation
Goodluck, Charlotte – 1983
Recruitment of Native Americans to be foster or adoptive parents for Native American children involves careful planning, preparation, and work. In addition to making standard administrative decisions and maintaining required records, social workers must be sensitive to the attitudes, lifestyle, and culture of Native Americans recruited as adoptive…
Descriptors: Adoption, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Child Welfare
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