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Carnegie Inst. of Tech., Pittsburgh, PA. – 1965
THIS COURSE WAS DEVELOPED AS PART OF AN INTEGRATED AND SEQUENTIAL HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM FOR ABLE STUDENTS (UPPER 25 PERCENT). A BOOK OF READINGS FOR INDUCTIVE TEACHING, THE COURSE, BASED ON INDUCTIVE TEACHING, CONSISTS OF 17 UNITS OF STUDY WHICH INCLUDE--(1) THE SHAPING OF WESTERN SOCIETY FROM INNOVATION TO TRADITION (500 BC TO…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Course Organization, Curriculum Development, European History

Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee, Harrisburg. – 1976
This publication presents a lengthy study of the intermediate educational unit system in the state of Pennsylvania. Purpose of the study was to describe in a comprehensive manner the programmatic, operational, and fiscal aspects of intermediate units, to examine the significant interactions between intermediate units and other agencies…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education

Burger, Robert M.; And Others – 1976
A 2-year project provided inservice training to school personnel involved in vocational education and placement of trainable mentally retarded students in Pennsylvania. Project activities included a review of the literature, the development of task analysis training techniques, the compilation of a procedural manual and a job placement guidebook,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment
McCloskey, I. L. – 1976
This report describes the background and results of a project to establish a school-based job placement service in the Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. The center's activities, based on a previously-developed model, included these components: (1) Cooperative job development with the Bureau of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Employment Services, Job Placement
Houck, Terri – 1997
Alternative education programs for disruptive and at-risk students in Pennsylvania were studied to determine the characteristics that make such programs successful. This report presents the results of the analysis and lists model programs and other operating programs in Pennsylvania. Suspension and expulsion are stopgap solutions that relieve the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agenda Setting, Assistant Principals, Disadvantaged Youth

Whiting, John T.; Graham, Charles D. – T.H.E. Journal, 1997
Illustrates how networking standards are critical to the connectivity success of public education. Highlights the partnership of one district in Pennsylvania's statewide Link-to-Learn Project with a computer solutions firm. Discusses obstacles and prescription for the network upgrade. Includes suggestions for school districts contemplating…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making, Educational Technology
Hamilton-Pennell, Christine; Lance, Keith Curry; Rodney, Marcia J.; Hainer, Eugene – School Library Journal, 2000
Reports the results of three statewide studies in Alaska, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, which show that a school library media program with a full-time library media specialist, support staff, and a strong computer network leads to higher student achievement as evidenced on standardized achievement tests. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education
Golden, Michael – T.H.E. Journal, 2005
The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) is working with local education agencies throughout the Commonwealth to create a culture of teaching and learning in every school that is student-centered, data-informed, personalized, and results-focused. Each of these elements have been supported seamlessly by systems, resources, technology, and…
Descriptors: Information Management, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, School Districts

Boselli, John; Bok, Marilyn A., Ed. – 1994
This report examines the potential pool of workers in nine rural New York and Pennsylvania counties, the characteristics of this labor pool, and barriers that make it difficult for these individuals to enter the workplace. The counties studied make up the southern tier of New York State (Broome, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tompkins…
Descriptors: Counties, Educational Attainment, Employment Potential, Employment Problems

Pittsburgh Univ., PA. School of Education. – 1995
This directory provides information about 91 service learning initiatives taking place in Pennsylvania. It serves as a comprehensive guide to the individual programs put forth by each of the grantees. Introductory material includes tables showing the following: grant distribution by school district, year awarded, and type of grant; grants by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Community Organizations, Community Services

Powers, Gerald W.; Schwilk, Christopher L. – 1997
A survey of 34 teachers of students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing and 27 speech-language pathologists licensed by the Pennsylvania Board of Examiners in Speech and Hearing investigated who was more qualified to serve this population. The survey consisted of three parts: demographic information, questions about graduate preparation, and a test…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education
Cooley, William W.; And Others – 1992
A state educational indicator system being developed by the Pennsylvania Educational Policy Studies (PEPS) project at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) is described. The extensive database that has been established as part of the PEPS project includes thousands of variables that are descriptive of the 500 Pennsylvania school districts.…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Analysis, Databases, Educational Change
Pennsylvania Governor's Drug Policy Council, Harrisburg. – 1994
Given the importance of monitoring the extent of tobacco, drug, and alcohol use among students in order to formulate policy and to initiate or continue appropriate prevention and intervention programs, this report profiles one state's 6th, 7th, 9th, and 12th grade students. More than 41,000 randomly selected public school and private school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, At Risk Persons, Drinking
Parrish, Thomas B.; Montgomery, Deborah L. – 1995
This paper examines the politics of special education finance reform in three states (Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont) that have enacted substantial legislative change within the past 5 years. These case studies were extracted from presentations made by the three state directors of special education at a 1994 conference. Each case study includes…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Change
Lucero, Jesus Ricardo; And Others – 1992
This resource guide for distance learning information, courses, and programming covers: (1) audiographics programming by the Pennsylvania Teleteaching Project; (2) cable programming, including the Cable Alliance for Education's Cable in the Classroom projects, Consumer News and Business Channel, Nostalgia Television, PENNARAMA Channel, Silent…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Cable Television, Communications Satellites, Computer Software