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US Government Accountability Office, 2009
In 2005-2006, students with disabilities comprised 9 percent of the student population in the United States, and English language learners comprised about 10 percent. Many of these students spend a majority of their time in the general classroom setting in elementary and secondary schools. Most teachers are initially trained through teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Special Needs Students
US Department of Education, 2003
Volume II contains six appendices to Volume I, including short summaries of the 18 schools that were studied. Appendices included in this report are: (1) Evaluation Methodology; (2) Promising Reform Strategies; (3) Descriptions of the Research-Based Methods or Strategies Being Used; (4) Short Summaries of 18 Comprehensive School Reform…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Demonstration Programs, Government School Relationship, School Districts
Hickey, Delina R. – 1986
A study examined the ways in which practitioners in four states were defining the terms coordination/cooperation/collaboration when directing the monies set aside in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) funding for use in coordination among educators and job training providers. Case studies of the use of 8 percent set-aside monies were conducted in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
Texas Education Agency, Austin.
Ten of the twenty Education Service Centers (ESC) that provide instructional and technical services to the local school districts in Texas were asked to participate in a project designed to demonstrate infusion and management techniques in career education. Activities were accomplished under the following objectives: (1) establish the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Yin, Robert; Kim, Dawn – US Department of Education, 2003
Comprehensive school reform calls for a "whole-school" and coordinated approach to improve schools. The strategy differs from piecemeal and fragmented efforts that also in the past have seemed only to lead to short-lived changes. To stimulate whole-school reform across the country, Congress appropriated funds in FY1998 for the U.S.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Demonstration Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
Stedman, Deborah S. – 1979
The Texas adult performance level (APL) project LINK-FOUR implemented a curriculum based on functional competencies at four sites (Austin, Texarkana, Texas City, and Abilene) and formed linkages with local organizations involved in adult vocational education. The concept on which the project was based was that a set of prevocational skills, plus a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills