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Hill, Lori Diane – Sociology of Education, 2008
This study reconsidered school effects on college enrollment by focusing on strategies that schools use to facilitate college transitions. It also examined whether school strategies influence different outcomes for students from different racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Using data from the High School Effectiveness Study, the analysis…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Clearinghouses, Enrollment Trends, Enrollment
Quill and Scroll, 1997
Recounts how the Newspaper Association of America Foundation is setting up a clearinghouse to conduct research with those to be served (young people), is designing a site, and is implementing the project. States that the Foundation sent questionnaires to leaders in youth service areas asking for 13 different kinds of information and that response…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, High Schools, Information Sources, National Surveys
Bowen, Candace Perkins; And Others – Communication: Journalism Education Today, 1995
States that the National Collegiate Athletic Association set up a clearinghouse to study each high school's course offerings to ensure incoming freshman athletes can succeed in college. Finds that the nation's top journalism programs did not contain enough English. Includes an explanation of initial eligibility, how the clearinghouse works, and…
Descriptors: Athletes, Clearinghouses, College Athletics, College Preparation
Lozada, Marlene – Vocational Education Journal, 1996
Oregon's Business Education Compact is a clearinghouse for businesses and schools seeking to develop partnerships. Both groups pay membership fees and receive services that nurture mutually beneficial relationships. (SK)
Descriptors: Business, Clearinghouses, Community Colleges, High Schools
Mount Hood Community Coll., Gresham, OR. – 1994
The Mt. Hood Community College National Tech Prep Demonstration Center program is described in this performance report. The report details the following activities through which the center contributed significantly to educational reform: (1) information dissemination (including distributing information packets to more than 2,770 sites, hosting 63…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Annual Reports, Articulation (Education), Clearinghouses
Grubb, W. Norton, Ed. – 1995
This book contains the following papers examining the challenges of integrating high school vocational and academic curricula to provide education through occupations: "Components of a Complex Reform" (W. Norton Grubb); "Integrating Vocational and Academic Education: Lessons from Early Innovators" (Kimberly Ramsey et al.);…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Articulation (Education)
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
Work-based education (WBE), including traditional vocational education and other career-focused programs, was an important curricular component in American schools for most of the 20th century. The 1990s was a period of substantial change for work-based education (WBE). Spurred on by a concern about the international competitiveness of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Tech Prep, Education Work Relationship