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Hours of Opportunity, Volume 3: Profiles of Five Cities Improving After-School Programs through a Systems Approach. Technical Report
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McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Bodilly, Susan J.; Orr, Nate; Scherer, Ethan; Constant, Louay; Gershwin, Daniel – RAND Corporation, 2010
High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, After School Programs, Grants, Data
Hours of Opportunity, Volume 2: The Power of Data to Improve After-School Programs Citywide. Monograph
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McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Orr, Nate; Bodilly, Susan J.; Naftel, Scott; Constant, Louay; Scherer, Ethan; Gershwin, Daniel – RAND Corporation, 2010
High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Management Information Systems, Financial Support, Data
REPORT OF PLANNING CONFERENCE FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SUMMER STUDY, APRIL 30 - MAY 1, 1965.
FRANK, NATHANIEL H. – 1965
A 2-DAY PLANNING CONFERENCE WAS HELD FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF CONFEREES REPRESENTING A BROAD RANGE OF INTERESTS. THEIR PURPOSE WAS TO PLAN A VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SUMMER STUDY PROGRAM--(1) TO TAKE A FRESH LOOK AT THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION ON A NATIONAL SCALE, (2) TO WORK OUT PLANS FOR INITIATING SUCH EDUCATIONAL REFORM AS…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Policy, Planning, Program Development
Title I and Early Childhood Programs: A Look at Investments in the NCLB Era. CLASP Child Care and Early Education Series. Policy Paper No. 2
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Ewen, Danielle; Matthews, Hannah – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2007
This paper explores the range of ways in which school districts are using Title I funds for early education through kindergarten and examines how the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has impacted those investments. It also makes recommendations for local education agencies (LEAs) interested in creating Title I-funded early education…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Young Children
A Framework for the Training of Bilingual/ESL Teachers in the Schools of Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Viera, Silvia M.; And Others – 1975
The Bilingual/Bicultural Education Professions Program conducted a needs assessment designed to find out the situation teachers in the Holyoke Public Schools face in their classrooms and what needs they have, in order to improve preservice teacher education. The tools used to determine teacher needs were a demographic questionnaire, an explicit…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers, Cultural Differences
The Pursuit of Excellence: Improving the Quality of Our Urban Schools through Desegregation, Equity and Choice. A Final Report from the Program Committee of The Worcester Conference on Equity and Choice (Worcester, Massachusetts, April 9-10, 1984).
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Clinchy, Evans – 1984
In April 1984, more than 350 parents, teachers, principals and administrators from major urban school systems in Massachusetts met to define what an "excellent" desegregated urban public school system should be. This conference report, following excerpts from a keynote address by John E. Durkin, documents seven workshops which focused on…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bilingual Education, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Improvement