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de Azúa, Ramón L. – National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth (NDTAC), 2020
This brief illustrates how digital learning opportunities and technology can significantly increase access to high-quality learning materials, curricula, and effective online learning tools to help youth in secure care settings develop expertise in shaping personalized learning and future goals. The brief also offers takeaways that practitioners,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, At Risk Students, Juvenile Justice
New England Board of Higher Education, 2018
Surveys of New England employers, college academic officers, and graduates find that many consider today's college graduates inadequately prepared for the world of work. In 2017, the New England Board of Higher Education convened the Commission on Higher Education & Employability, under the leadership of Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Career Readiness
Lass, Leslie – Achieving the Dream, 2014
This overview introduces "Right from the Start: An Institutional Perspective on Developmental Education Reform," a series of three practitioner briefs on developmental education. Created by Achieving the Dream and MDC, the briefs spotlight successful reform efforts in developmental education at seven Achieving the Dream colleges. [The…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Educational Principles
Lass, Leslie; Parcell, Abby – Achieving the Dream, 2014
Three community colleges--El Paso Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, and Patrick Henry Community College--incorporated technology into the curriculum to support student progress in mathematics through developmental education. Each college took its own path: El Paso developed a self-accelerated emporium-style computer lab, Patrick…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Strategies, Developmental Programs, Educational Change
Zimmerman, Isa Kaftal, Ed.; Hayes, Mary Forte, Ed. – 1998
This yearbook for the Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (MASCD) provides educators with models of successful practices and raises questions and potential solutions to issues of accountability, policy, long-term planning, funding, and student motivation for learning. This 1998 yearbook assists educators at all…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
DeCandido, GraceAnne A., Ed. – 2001
This book presents 22 personal narratives in which library directors, program administrators, teachers, tutors, librarians, and adult learners explain firsthand how literacy programs at libraries across the United States have changed people's lives. The following narratives are included: "Gloria's Story: 'She Wanted Me to Be Somebody'";…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Community Education