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Download full textMa, Patricia; Proscio, Tony – 1998
In 1986, three neighborhood development organizations in Cleveland, Ohio, created the Westside Industrial Retention Network (WIRE-Net) to retain manufacturing jobs on the city's West Side. In 1989, WIRE-Net launched its Hire Locally program, which was designed to provide local business with candidates judged to be effective workers and help…
Descriptors: Community Development, Cooperative Planning, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs
Berney, Tomi D.; Rosenberg, Jan – 1989
In its fourth year, the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) component of the Summer Institute for Career Exploration (ICE) program was funded by the federal government's Emergency Immigrant Education Assistance program. Program goals were to help recent immigrants develop English language skills, introduce students to high school requirements and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Exploration, English (Second Language), Federal Programs
Dungan, Lucille A. – 1988
This study investigated the "customization" of a standardized achievement test to measure the effect on group and individual scores. "Customization" refers to the modification of an existing test to more closely match test specifications of the entity using the test, usually a state or large school district. Results of an…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. School of Education. – 1977
A detailed program description and evaluation are contained in the final report of a demonstration project designed to prepare certified teachers of limited English speaking ability students for bilingual bicultural education programs. The introductory section summarizes the purpose of the program, which offered traineeships to individuals…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Demonstration Programs, Educational Objectives
Klostermann, Brenda K.; Presley, Jennifer B. – Online Submission, 2005
Findings are presented from our case study evaluating the implementation of the IBHE's federally funded grant, "A Common Vision: Teacher Quality Enhancement in the Middle Grades in Illinois." Four sites were examined in terms of how they organized to attain the grant goals, and what aspects of organizational culture and leadership…
Descriptors: Grants, Teacher Effectiveness, Organizational Culture, Partnerships in Education
Alberta Advanced Education, 2005
This document reviews Alberta's advanced education system for the period 1997-98 onwards. 1997-98 was selected as the base year because it provides several years worth of data and complements an earlier analysis: "Profile of Alberta's Adult Learning System: A Context for Discussion." In 2005, Alberta's Minister of Advanced Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Profiles, Adult Education, Educational Finance
Pollock, John S. – 1996
A study evaluated the Early Literacy program that served 2,021 underachieving pupils in grades 1 (1600) and 2 (421) in the Columbus, Ohio, public schools. The purpose of the Early Literacy program was to provide early intervention to underachieving first- and second-grade pupils who appeared unlikely to learn to read successfully without reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy
Pollock, John S. – 1997
A study evaluated the Title I Early Literacy program that served 1,503 underachieving pupils in grades 1 (1,169) and 2 (334) in the Columbus, Ohio, public schools. The purpose of the Early Literacy program was to provide early intervention to underachieving first- and second-grade pupils who appeared unlikely to learn to read successfully without…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1987
During 1985-86 the Division of Special Education of the New York Board of Education operated a Chapter 1/P.S.E.N. Remedial Reading and Mathematics Program which served approximately 11,500 English-speaking and limited English Proficient (LEP) students. Of these, 9,627 received reading instruction alone, and 119 received remedial instruction in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; Marks, Ellen L. – 1987
This document examines the following aspects of the federal administration of evaluation, program improvement, and technical assistance under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act: (1) changes in each of the three areas since 1981 when Chapter 1 replaced Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; (2) activities…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Strickland, Dorothy S., Ed.; Cooper, Eric J., Ed. – 1987
This book comprises papers on effectively educating black children. The foreword is by U.S. Representative Augustus F. Hawkins; the introduction is by Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Section I, "School Policy: Formation and Implementation," includes the following papers: (1) "Revisiting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Black Youth, Educational Policy
Derewetzky, Solomon – 1992
Project Compugrafia.LEP (Limited English Proficiency) was designed to provide supplementary services and materials to existing bilingual special education programs in nine elementary schools in the Bronx (New York). The 471 project students were mildly to moderately disabled children from low-income Spanish-speaking families. The components of the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Career Education, Computer Literacy, Educational Objectives
Orloff, Patricia; And Others – 1993
Civil rights issues affecting the Latino community in Washington (District of Columbia) were explored in a 3-day fact-finding hearing involving the sworn testimony of more than 100 witnesses. Information from extensive field investigation and research was also included. The District's Latino population is a small but rapidly increasing minority…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Civil Rights, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Discrimination
Oxman, Wendy G.; Michelli, Nicholas M. – 1984
Project THISTLE (Thinking Skills in Teaching and Learning) was developed by Montclair State College (New Jersey) faculty in collaboration with the Newark, New Jersey, public schools. The project is designed to improve the basic skills of urban college-bound high school students by working with their teachers in an integrated process of curriculum…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College School Cooperation, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report seeks to identify and make policy recommendations concerning major urban issues confronting the Bush Administration. The Division of Urban Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) established working groups and commissioned papers on the following six key urban policy issues: (1)…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
