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Duncombe, Chris; Syverson, Eric – Education Commission of the States, 2023
Innovation in education is vital for responding to emerging challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and for building progress on longstanding challenges in schools. The infusion of substantial, highly flexible pots of federal relief dollars created an opportunity to pilot new programs and initiatives. Many states and districts opted to invest…
Descriptors: Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs, Pandemics
Rush-Marlowe, Rachel – Association of Community College Trustees, 2021
Community colleges across the country are plagued with tight budgets--caused in part by state disinvestment and chronic federal underfunding. For rural community colleges, these challenges are even more acute, as their needs are greater and the costs of providing services higher. The COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened the prosperity gap between…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Community Colleges, Online Courses, COVID-19
McPhail, Christine Johnson – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2011
At its annual joint board and commission meeting (Washington, DC, November 10-11, 2010), American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) focused attention on college completion by presenting two panel discussions on the completion agenda, followed by breakout sessions in which participants were assigned to focus groups tasked with providing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Professional Associations, Conferences (Gatherings), Agenda Setting
Drabick, Lawrence W. – 1974
The paper addresses variations in the occupational and educational expectations of high school seniors from two geographic regions of the U.S. It gives particular emphasis to differences in the proportions with high expectations, to the relationships between those proportions and certain personal-social characteristics of the respondents, to…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Behavior Theories, Community Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Winton, Pamela J.; Catlett, Camille – 2002
This final report summarizes the activities of a federally funded project designed to prepare higher education faculty to serve as leaders in providing and promoting quality interprofessional preservice instruction in their states. SCRIPT enhanced and replicated a validated model that had previously been developed, implemented and evaluated in 20…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Higher Education
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Association of Classroom Teachers. – 1968
Twenty-four local projects which are intended to serve as sources of ideas for professional group action are described in this pamphlet. The projects are reported within the framework of four areas of improving teaching. Under "professional development" projects are portrayed concerning the use of student tutors and the improvement of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anthologies, Cross Age Teaching, Economically Disadvantaged