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Council for Financial Aid to Education, New York, NY. – 1978
This volume describes and discusses numerous educational programs for minorities and women conducted and/or supported by academic and nonacademic institutions and organizations. Included are general assistance programs conducted at black, minority, and women's colleges and specific/career oriented programs supported by corporations. Information is…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Opportunities, Employment Programs, Females
Download full textNational Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1973
The report represents an abridged summary of a study which assessed secondary and postsecondary work education programs and suggested ways they might be modified or expanded. A stratified, random sample of 50 work-education sites was drawn for the study from a set of 500 representative programs. Specific occupational training, dropout prevention,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1997
This booklet describes various components of the America Reads Challenge program, which will mobilize AmeriCorps members, skilled reading specialists, and trained volunteer reading tutors to ensure that every student can read independently and well by the end of third grade. The booklet begins with advice on how to get involved right now and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Wohl, Seth F. – 1974
Ten alternative high schools serving a total of 2,750 students in New York City were evaluated in terms of their administration, programs, student body, and specific educational objectives. Three main types of programs were in operation at the schools. These included: (1) Remediation with emphasis on basic skills in reading, mathematics and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Cooperative Education, High School Students
Smith, Lawrence L.; Bengston, John – 1978
This report documents the results of a special reading program offered to low income high school students involved in a youth incentive entitlement work/study project in Alachua County, Florida. The first section of the report discusses the need for literacy training through a reading enrichment program for entitlement students and the inadequacy…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, High School Students, Instructional Design, Literacy
Farland, Ronn; Tarrer, Rod – 1979
A staff report on the availability of financial aid funds to students in California was presented to the Board of Governors of California Community Colleges and includes 13 recommendations for action. The report indicates a continuing increase in federal aid funds since 1955, with over $8 billion available in 1978-79. A review of federal and state…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Federal Programs, Financial Support, Program Descriptions
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 1970
The implementation of a work-study program in a rural, depressed area, the operation of the program, and evaluation are discussed in the first of six papers on vocational education for the retarded. The sheltered workshop at the Kurtz Training Center in Pennsylvania is described with a focus on promoting self image and adjustment. A 6-year…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Program Descriptions
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 1973
Two conference reports focus on career education programs for handicapped high school students. Described is a work study program for educable mentally retarded (EMR) senior high students with goals such as decreasing the incidence of school dropouts, improving basic work skills, teaching positive work attitudes, teaching money and time management…
Descriptors: Career Education, Conference Reports, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Lathom, Vicki – 1972
Funding sources for migrant child care programs and their various components, such as services, personnel, food, equipment, and some Federal child care legislation bills, are given in this publication. The programs are grouped into the various agencies and departments of the Federal government which help fund them (i.e., the Department of Health,…
Descriptors: Day Care, Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedKeller, Arnold J. – Clearing House, 1977
At Egbert Junior High School on Staten Island a pilot project--the Cooperative Education program--has managed to survive the rash of program cutbacks and elimination occurring in New York City public schools. Describes the reasons for its success by evaluating two very distinctive characteristics--its cooperative work program on a junior high…
Descriptors: Career Education, Dropout Prevention, Junior High Schools, Program Descriptions
Cobe, Patricia – Forecast for Home Economics, 1976
Describes the Atlanta Area Technical School's Child Care Occupations Program, focusing on the combination day-care center/child study laboratory; course work is competency based. Utilizes a model program in training child-care workers at both the secondary and post-secondary level. (TA)
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Competency Based Education, Day Care
Rock, Maxine – 1982
A conference was held for college presidents, student work supervisors, and students who are involved in student-work programs. Attending the conference were representatives of the following colleges: Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky; Berea College, Berea, Kentucky; Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia; Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Higher Education, Program Costs, Program Descriptions
Lieman, Meyer, Ed. – Forum, 1980
Thirteen brief articles look at high school programs for students with special needs with emphasis on programs offered in New York State. Articles have the following titles and authors: "Vocational Education for Handicapped Students in New York City High Schools" (F. Yauch); "Development of a Comprehensive Program for High School…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Articulation (Education), Clerical Occupations, Curriculum
SCHILL, WILLIAM JOHN – 1966
A DESCRIPTIVE REPORT OF THE CONDUCT OR STATUS OF CONCURRENT WORK-EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN EACH OF THE 50 STATES IS PRESENTED. DATA ARE REPORTED FOR TWO DISTINCT PROGRAMS--(1) COOPERATIVE EDUCATION, A PROGRAM IN WHICH THE STUDENTS WORK PART-TIME AND STUDY IN A FORMAL CLASSROOM SETTING PART-TIME, AND (2) WORK-STUDY, A PROGRAM IN WHICH STUDENTS IN…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Demography, Economic Factors
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Div. of Special Education Services. – 1970
The report of the administrative procedures for the special education programs in Colorado contains definitions of the handicapping conditions, the organization of programs evolving from the handicap categories, standards of student eligibility, and broad standards of program approval criteria. Specific programs are described including the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Admission Criteria
