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Download full textBay, Mary; Lopez-Reyna, Norma A.; Guillory, Barbara L. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2012
To reform a special education teacher preparation program can be gratifying, difficult, complex, political, and urgently needed. The Monarch Center, a federally funded technical assistance center, was established to guide and support minority-serving institutions in their efforts to improve their teacher preparation programs. Four guidelines…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Minority Group Students, Technical Assistance, Special Education Teachers
Pizzo, Peggy; And Others – 1993
The Better Care for the Babies (BCTB) Project was initiated in April 1989 to help states improve the quality of infant and toddler child care, especially for low-income children whose parents are in the labor force and/or making the transition from welfare to work. The BCTB Project initiated ongoing, negotiated, goal-directed technical assistance…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Day Care
McCormick, Fred C.; McCormick, Eileen R. – 1985
The Quality Assistance Plan (QAP) for Vocational Education in Illinois is a state-funded program for locally initiated, developed, implemented, and evaluated projects that was begun in Fiscal Year 1982. Its purpose is to build the capacity, in each educational setting, for the improvement of vocational education programs. That improvement should…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Information Dissemination, Postsecondary Education, Program Development
McCormick, Fred C.; McCormick, Eileen R. – 1985
In 1984, the State Board of Education, Department of Adult, Vocational, and Technical Education (DAVTE), contracted with an outside evaluator to assess the impact of the Illinois Quality Assistance Plan (QAP). (The QAP is a state-funded program for locally initiated, developed, implemented, and evaluated projects that was begun in Fiscal Year…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Information Dissemination, Postsecondary Education, Program Development
Educational Operations Concepts, Inc., St. Paul, Minn. – 1979
A study to evaluate Career Guidance Centers (CGCs) in Illinois resulted in both objective evaluation and in the provision of technical assistance for the regional centers. An epiphenomenon of the study activity was the development of a model for the evaluation of pilot site (exemplary) projects with the potential of its being transported to…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Resources
Educational Operations Concepts, Inc., St. Paul, Minn. – 1979
To improve vocational guidance and counseling programs and services in Illinois, nineteen site review teams analyzed the Career Guidance Center (CGC) programs and services offered to public and private educational and community-based agencies. (This evaluation was conducted as part of a larger study descrbed in CE 023 986.) The two major…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Resources
National Inst. for Literacy, Washington, DC. – 1999
The ways states are improving their literacy services for adults with disabilities were examined through a national survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) and National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) and case studies of three states: Oklahoma, Illinois, and Connecticut. The OVAE/NIFL…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Case Studies
