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Download full textVillar-Márquez, Eliana – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
In a multicultural country like Peru, specific and disaggregated data on ethnic and racial minorities are a key resource to inform public policies about neglected populations. For decades, data on Afro-Peruvians has been both limited and inaccurate. Although there are 106 Afro-Peruvian communities, the most recent national census in October 2017…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Public Policy, Blacks
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2019
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2018
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2016
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2016
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2015
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2014
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Direct linkJaffe, Gita – Education Canada, 2009
The 2005 "UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic" estimated that 10 million young people are living with HIV and AIDS worldwide and that approximately half of all new infections are among 15-24 year olds. Findings from a study suggest that there may be a false sense of complacency about the disease among today's youth. This ignorance…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), International Education, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKendrick, Maureen; Kakuru, Doris – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2012
Much of the research on orphan and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa has focused on their risks and vulnerabilities. This article describes the "funds of knowledge" (Moll and Greenberg, 1990) and means of acquiring new knowledge of children living in child-headed households in Uganda's Rakai District. Using ethnographic methods,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Death, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2013
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
Matthews, John D.; Cramer, Elizabeth P. – Child Welfare, 2006
Although a growing number of child placement agencies are serving lesbians and gay men, a dearth of literature exists for adoption agency policies and practices related to working with this population. This article explores the unique characteristics and strengths of prospective gay and lesbian adoptive parents throughout each of the three phases…
Descriptors: Adoption, Parents, Homosexuality, Heads of Households
Bookwalter, Jeffrey T.; Fuller, Brandon S.; Dalenberg, Douglas R. – Social Indicators Research, 2006
Many recent household surveys include questions about respondents' subjective well-being. Nearly all of them, however, pose these questions only to the household head. This paper addresses an issue with practical and methodological concerns. Can survey designers ask only household heads and expect them to accurately represent the living conditions…
Descriptors: Surveys, Well Being, Heads of Households, Family Attitudes
O'Leary, Anna Ochoa – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2006
This paper summarizes quantitative and qualitative findings from a 1999 study of Mexican-origin households in Nogales, Arizona. It finds that women's educational progress is facilitated by social support and, even more important, that a household's investment in the education of its members is significantly raised with an increase in the education…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Females, Mexican Americans
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2010
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV" or "Perkins") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
