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Van Loozen, Jim – 1984
This guide has two main objectives: (1) to help school board members become better governors of the local educational enterprise; and (2) to help school board members respond to questions from the public about the National Commission on Excellence in Education report entitled "A Nation at Risk." To meet these objectives, the guide offers…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Curriculum Development
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1988
This guide delineates steps for state involvement in early childhood and family education and related services, and synthesizes many state and federal activities that support at-risk children from birth through five years and their families. The guide is designed to help states expand early childhood and family education policies and programs by…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Washington Consulting Group, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
Module 13 of the 17-module self-instructional course on student financial aid administration (designed for novice financial aid administrators and other institutional personnel) focuses on the verification procedure for checking the accuracy of applicant data used in making financial aid awards. The full course provides an introduction to the…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Audits (Verification), Educational Finance
Morehead, Joe – 1999
This book provides an account of the general and specialized sources, in print and non-print formats, that make up the bibliographic and textual structure of federal government information. This edition has been revised to reflect the many changes that have occurred in the production and dissemination of government products within the last five…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographies, Depository Libraries, Federal Government
Curzan, Mary H., Ed. – 1985
Intended as a guide for students, this booklet gives current information on types of careers, the availability of jobs, and the academic training and skills associated with particular jobs in political science. Students are given a brief overview of some of the career choices that have appealed to those who have majored in political science.…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Exploration
Washington Consulting Group, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
The eighth module in a 17-module self-instructional program on student financial aid administration (designed for novice student financial aid administrators and other personnel) focuses on need analysis. It provides an introduction to the management of federal financial aid programs authorized by the Higher Education Act Title IV. After…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Computation, Educational Finance
Washington Consulting Group, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
The 14th of 17 modules in a self-instructional course on student financial aid administration (geared toward novice financial aid administrators and other institutional personnel) focuses on Pell Grants and campus-based authorization, fiscal operations, and reporting. The full course provides an introduction to the management of federal financial…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Finance, Eligibility
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Student Financial Assistance. – 2000
This CD-ROM contains a simulated conversation between a counselor at the Department of Education's Federal Student Aid Information Center and a student inquiring about financial assistance. Following an introductory track providing contents information, each track contains a section answering a different question about federal student loans. The…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Educational Finance, Eligibility, Federal Aid
Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC. – 1989
The Family Support Act of 1988 (FSA) provides a means by which federal, state, and local governments can work systematically and comprehensively to provide the support people need to escape poverty. The act mandates that appropriate educational services be made available to at least some welfare recipients as part of the effort to help those…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change
Collier, Douglas J.; Allen, Richard H. – 1980
The second volume of the revised "Higher Education Finance Manual" (HEFM), this data users' guide is oriented to the nonaccountant and describes the kinds of information about postsecondary education that can be derived from institutional financial data. Contents include: a description of fund accounting for higher education, a…
Descriptors: Accounting, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Tindall, Lloyd W.; And Others – 1981
A product of the Project on Vocational Education Models for Linking Agencies Serving the Handicapped, this manual describes various federal agencies and national organizations and outlines their policies and activities related to interagency agreements. (The above-mentioned project is designed to help states meet the needs of students at the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Advocacy, Agency Cooperation
Green, Kevin – 1997
This document contains brief summaries of websites likely to be of interest to adult educators, as well as summaries of Internet listservs that adult educators may wish to join. The publication organizes the websites into the following 12 broad categories: (1) general adult literacy; (2) English as a second language; (3) workplace education and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Research
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. – 1983
A review was made of federal activity in school health promotion for the purpose of sharing information to use effectively existing federal activity, to prevent duplication of effort, and to increase interagency cooperation. Surveyed agencies submitted a statement regarding their missions in school health promotion and provided a list of current…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Delivery Systems
American Political Science Association (NJ3), 2003
This guide is a great resource for today's undergraduate. This updated career guide explores the many career options available to political science students and emphasizes the value of political science training. In additional to providing specific information about various career paths, this guide will help students examine their own career…
Descriptors: Career Education, Labor Market, Political Science, Majors (Students)
Kaplin, William A.; Lee, Barbara A. – 1995
This volume is the third edition of a comprehensive treatment of higher education law and is current through approximately August 1994. The nine chapters are divided into numerous sections and subsections. Chapter 1 provides a framework for understanding and integrating what is presented in subsequent chapters and a perspective for future…
Descriptors: Administrators, Civil Law, Colleges, Court Litigation
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