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Download full textStiegemeier, Lois – 1995
In March 1995, the Alaska Department of Education conducted an instructional technology survey of all schools and school districts. The purposes of the survey were to collect data on the numbers and types of instructional technologies currently being used in Alaska schools, to collect information on the utilization of those technologies, to…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1996
This document is the U.S. Department of Education's first report to Congress on the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. It includes a brief history of the 1994 law, a description of how states and school districts are using their Goals 2000 money, a look at how the program is helping to reshape the department's technical-assistance effort, and a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Community Update, 1996
This document consists of the 11 issues of the newsletter "Community Update" which were published between April 1995 and March 1996. The newsletter provides information to help schools and communities reach the National Education Goals. Each issue contains announcements of monthly satellite town meetings, topics to be discussed in…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1994
On March 31, 1993, President Clinton signed into law the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. The Goals 2000 Act sets educational improvement and participation as national priorities to be achieved through local and state ingenuity, not federal control. This document offers general information on the Act and provides questions to help educators and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Adelman, Nancy E. – 1995
Three pieces of education legislation that the federal government enacted in 1994 are interlocking and designed to support a systemic approach to state and local educational improvement. The Goals 2000: Educate America Act, School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA), and Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) offer an opportunity to move from a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
1995
The Goals 2000: Educate America Act is based on the notion of building individual community strengths, creating partnerships, and developing world-class standards for every child. Individuals interested in helping to put the act's educational objectives into action at the local level will find suggestions in this document. The publication contains…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Support, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Michigan State Council on Vocational Education, Lansing. – 1996
This document proposes a direction and strategies for using a total quality management approach to develop and implement standards for evaluating vocational education students and assessing programs throughout Michigan. Discussed in part 1 are the following: the terms "standards,""assessments," and "certification";…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Qualifications
Hess-Grabill, Donella; Bueno, Soyon – 2000
This guidebook is intended as a road map to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Technical Education Act of 1998 (Perkins III) for career-technical education (CTE) practitioners and policymakers in Illinois. The following topics are among those covered: (1) framework for Perkins III (national educational reform, Illinois provisions for quality CTE,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Career Development
Griffith, Paul T. – I.C.T.F.L. Accents, 1995
It is suggested that trends in federal and state policy formation are working against the advancement of second language education in Illinois. While the passage of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act at the federal level was a positive step, legislating that foreign language be part of the core curriculum, a subsequent state policy draft excluded…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Demand, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
Erickson, Ron; And Others – 1995
Results of a 1994 survey of state directors of special education are presented for 47 states, 7 protectorates, and the District of Columbia. Four major issues were surveyed: the effects of activities outlined in Goals 2000 on state special education service delivery systems; efforts that states are making to develop learner goals and related…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
