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Naman, Whitney Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This mixed-method study explores the variables that teachers consider when deciding to remain at or leave their schools, with a specific focus on how teachers consider an incentive program. Research has repeatedly demonstrated that schools serving high concentrations of low-performing, non-White, and low socioeconomically situated students have…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Disadvantaged Schools, Disproportionate Representation, Teacher Persistence
Education Week, 2008
"Quality Counts 2008" reintroduces state grades in six key areas, from the Chance-for-Success Index to the teaching profession. This special issue of "Education Week" includes the following articles: (1) Human Resources a Weak Spot (Lynn Olson); (2) Teacher Salaries, Looking at Comparable Jobs (Christopher B. Swanson); (3) Data…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teaching (Occupation), Educational Quality, Human Resources
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
The 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" provided a comprehensive review of states' policies that impact the teaching profession. As a companion to last year's comprehensive state-by-state analysis, the 2010 edition provides each state with an individualized "Blueprint for Change," building off last year's "Yearbook"…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy, Teacher Evaluation
Faulkner, Paula E.; Baggett, Connie D.; Bowen, Cathy F.; Bowen, Blannie E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2009
Ethnic minority students traditionally pursue degrees and careers in the food and agricultural sciences at rates lower than their non-minority counterparts. To help improve upon this situation, the Food and Agricultural Sciences Institute (FASI) was created to expose academically talented high school students to opportunities within the food and…
Descriptors: Careers, Agricultural Education, Minority Groups, Laboratory Experiments
SIMPSON, RICHARD L.; AND OTHERS – 1960
THIS IS A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE AND OCCUPATIONAL CAREER PATTERNS IN TWO NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITIES. THE OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO EXPLORE ORIENTATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS TOWARD VARIOUS GROUPS WHICH INFLUENCE THEM, AND (2) TO DETERMINE THE VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF THESE INDIVIDUALS. SAMPLES OF 400 ADULT WHITE MALE WORKERS WERE DRAWN FROM EACH BLOCK…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Career Choice, Career Opportunities, Dropouts
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McWilliams, Andrew; Rosemond, Cherie; Roberts, Ellen; Calleson, Diane; Busby-Whitehead, Jan – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
The University of North Carolina Mobile Student Health Action Coalition (UNC MSHAC) at Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a voluntary service-learning program in which interdisciplinary teams of graduate level health professional students provide monthly home visits to isolated, community-dwelling elders with complex medical and social issues.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation, Home Visits, Learning Experience
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) is a nonprofit organization that works collaboratively with North Carolina and 15 other member states to improve education at every level--from pre-K to postdoctoral study--through many effective programs and initiatives. SREB's "Challenge to Lead" Goals for Education, which call for the…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Nonprofit Organizations
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Campbell, Dale F.; Faircloth, D. M. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1982
Examines the community college's role in state economic development, describing the North Carolina model, which teams community colleges and the department of commerce to insure adequate program funding. Encourages similar linkages in other states to provide resources for occupational training of skilled workers in high technology, critical…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Demand Occupations, Economic Development
Rice, Walter D. – Agr Educ Mag, 1970
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Technicians, Forestry, Forestry Occupations
Nunley, Rachel L. – 1981
This manual provides guidelines for teachers of career exploration and for guidance counselors to help assist the handicapped student in making a realistic selection of jobs or occupations in the health arena. It contains descriptive information about 49 jobs and occupations in the health field. Selection has been limited to those jobs and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Clerical Occupations
Gourley, Frank A., Jr., Comp. – 1973
With the enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the need for manpower development in the field of industrial safety and hygiene has resulted in the development of a broad based program in Occupational Safety and Health. The manual provides information to administrators and instructors on a program of study in this field for…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
Gantt, Judy M.; Terrell, Edward L. – 1986
A study examined the impact of the Centers for Disease Control's home study course in community hygiene on the job performance of 45 sanitarians in 30 districts throughout North Carolina. Data were collected from: (1) pre- and post-tests that evaluated the sanitarians' mastery of knowledge in such areas as water supply, sewage disposal, solid…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Check Lists, Continuing Education
Simpson, Harold D. – Agr Educ Mag, 1970
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Technicians, Food Processing Occupations, Postsecondary Education
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Dillon, Linda S. – Journal of Vocational and Technical Education, 1986
The author surveyed the attitudes of 1,551 North Carolinians toward sexual discrimination and nontraditional work roles. Sixty-three percent of all respondents thought that women had not been treated equally with men in being allowed to earn enough money to support themselves independently. Women were significantly different than men in their…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Females, Males, Mothers
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Koewing, J. Robert; And Others – Journal of Allied Health, 1976
The Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program (created under the Comprehensive Health Manpower Act of 1971) is briefly described followed by a discussion of the University of North Carolina's regional planning efforts for continuing education. Major planning problems--aggregate numbers, continuing education suppliers, geographic distribution,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel
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