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Winton, Pamela J., Ed.; Guillen, Chelsea, Ed.; Schnitz, Alana G., Ed. – Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children, 2019
The DEC Recommended Practices provide guidance to families and professionals about the most effective ways to improve learning outcomes and promote development of young children, birth through age 5, who have, or are at-risk for, developmental delays or disabilities. "Teaming and Collaboration: Building and Sustaining Partnerships" is…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Cooperation, Program Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education
Zeller, William J., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2008
Residence life programs play a key role in recruiting students, helping them make a successful transition to a new institution, and in retaining them, whether students are enrolling for the first time, transferring from another institution, or entering graduate school. Chapters in this book address theories of learning and development, new…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen
Elder, Glen H., Jr.; Conger, Rand D. – 2000
Based on the rural life experiences of Iowa children who grew up during the great farm crisis of the 1980s, this book focuses on successful adolescent development and its links to the social resources of families with ties to the land. In 1989, the Iowa Youth and Families Project began a panel study of 451 two-parent families in north central…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Family Characteristics, Family Relationship
Conger, Rand D.; Elder, Glen H., Jr. – 1994
In Iowa in the 1980s, dreams of prosperity were suddenly replaced by economic nightmares as plummeting land values generated economic decline and dislocation in rural communities and individual lives. This book examines the experience of over 400 Iowa families who lived through the Great Farm Crisis and now face an uncertain future. Interviewed as…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
Lazerus, Scott; Mangum, Garth; Mangum, Stephen; Tansky, Judith – 1998
The impact of one-stop career centers on the U.S. Employment Service (ES) program was examined through case studies of one-stop initiatives in the following states: Georgia; Ohio; California; Iowa; Oregon; Massachusetts; Texas; Utah; and Wisconsin. Of the nine case study states, only Georgia had not begun instituting a one-stop career center…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Centers, Case Studies, Coordination