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Houston Independent School District, 2021
This report describes the Achieve 180 Program in Year 3, the last of the three years initially planned for this comprehensive program. The 54 participating schools received Texas Education Agency campus accountability ratings of "Improvement Required" (IR), "Not Rated," or "Former Improvement Required". The 2019-2020…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Educational Improvement, Accountability
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Prins, Esther; Clymer, Carol; Foreman, Sheri Suarez; Needle, Mark; Raymond, Becky; Toso, Blaire Willson – Grantee Submission, 2018
This paper reports findings from a researcher-practitioner partnership (2015-18) that examined how adult education providers in Chicago, Houston, and Miami are designing and implementing career pathways (CP) programming, particularly for immigrants and adults with limited education. This Institute of Education Sciences-funded study was the first…
Descriptors: Career Development, Adult Learning, Partnerships in Education, Adult Educators
Houston Independent School District, 2014
The Career and Technical Education program (CTE) in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) has a mission to equip students with the marketable academic and technical skills needed to compete in the global workforce and/or to continue their education at the post-secondary level after graduation. Consequently, the goals of the CTE program…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, School Districts, Career Development, Employment Qualifications
Houston Independent School District, 2014
The Career and Technical Education program (CTE) in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) prepares students for postsecondary success by facilitating the acquisition of skills, aspirations, and motivation to succeed in the workplace and in college. Postsecondary opportunities allow CTE students to earn college credit by taking Dual Credit…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, School Districts, Career Development, Employment Qualifications
Houston Independent School District, 2019
In 2017-2018, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) launched Achieve 180, a program centered upon a comprehensive action plan to increase student achievement at 45 schools, including the 27 schools that received the Texas Education Agency Campus Accountability rating of "Improvement Required" (IR) in 2016-2017 and 18 former IR…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, School Districts, Educational Environment
Delaney, Joan – 1973
The Community Resource Manual is a compilation of basic information about the Houston area, including public and private training schools. Other areas replicating the Group Guidance Program could use the manual as a format or guide to the gathering of similar data pertaining to their own communities. The manual is meant to be used by students,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Development, Criteria, Group Guidance
CSR, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
This second volume of the interim report provides detailed case study reports on each of the eight Youth Apprenticeship Projects. (Volume 1, an overview of data from the site visits, is available separately as CE 032 791.) Discussion areas covered in each site visit report are local context/operational environment, administrative information,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Education, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1983
Proceedings of the 1983 annual meeting of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) are presented. Contents include a roundtable discussion, nine papers, a progress report by the SREB's Task Force on Higher Education and the Schools, a presentation on a SREB report on higher education and high technology economic development, a summary of the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Admission, College School Cooperation, Economic Development