Publication Date
In 2025 | 131 |
Since 2024 | 3357 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 12457 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 25255 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 45772 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 7768 |
Teachers | 3070 |
Administrators | 2438 |
Policymakers | 2384 |
Community | 986 |
Researchers | 980 |
Students | 584 |
Parents | 359 |
Support Staff | 208 |
Counselors | 173 |
Media Staff | 169 |
More ▼ |
Location
California | 4713 |
Canada | 2970 |
Australia | 2339 |
Texas | 1917 |
New York | 1676 |
Florida | 1589 |
Illinois | 1523 |
United States | 1454 |
North Carolina | 1226 |
Washington | 1128 |
United Kingdom | 1112 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 56 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 79 |
Does not meet standards | 84 |
Pioneer Cooperative Educational Service Agency, Cleveland, GA. – 1977
The Pioneer Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) first-year (1976-77) activities were reviewed. The project was intended to implement the Far West Laboratory (FWL) version of experience based career education (EBCE) in three Hall County, Georgia, high schools, and to prepare for second-year (school year) implementation of the program in…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Mayo, G. Douglas, Ed. – 1978
A program providing small grants to faculty members to carry out promising proposals for instructional improvement was undertaken at Memphis State University in 1974. Herein are included fifteen reports describing projects conducted during the third year of the program, and a report evaluating the small grant program. The reports focus on:…
Descriptors: Art Education, Chemistry, Classroom Observation Techniques, College Faculty
Cope, Robert G., Ed. – 1975
These proceedings include 83 papers and 24 abstracts of papers contributed at the AIR's Annual Forum. Practitioners at two- and four-year colleges and universities, public and private (teachers, department chairmen, and administrators) as well as theoreticians are addressed. Papers fall into 13 categories: (1) presidential address and theme…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Affirmative Action, College Admission
Wolff, Susan J. – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2003
The purpose of the study was to (a) determine the design features of the physical learning environment that support collaborative, project-based learning, and (b) to gain an understanding of the rationale for the selection of the features. The literature review indicated a need for changing learning expectations to prepare learners for rapidly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Active Learning, Educational Environment
Castellanos, Jeanett, Ed.; Gloria, Alberta M., Ed.; Kamimura, Mark, Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2005
This is the first book specifically to engage with the absence of Latinas/os in doctoral studies. It proposes educational and administrative strategies to open up the pipeline, and institutional practices to ensure access, support, models and training for Latinas/os aspiring to the Ph.D. The under-education of Latina/o youth begins early. Given…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Higher Education, Student Experience, Masculinity
Pennington, Hilary; Seltzer, Marlene – Women's Policy Journal of Harvard, 2001
Jobs for the Future (JFF) has identified the following best practice programs that support what is known to work best in moving women into family-supporting employment: (1) Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas, trains welfare recipients to work as sheet metal assemblers while providing a support services counselor and support for child care…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs

Kulich, Jindra, Comp. – 1996
This bibliography lists 1,721 reports and publications that examine adult education in at least two countries and were published between 1945 and 1995. The oldest publications date from 1949, and the final 44 documents listed constitute a partial list of the international comparative adult education publications published in 1996. Publications are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2002
The U.S. Congress asked the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to determine the following: (1) to what extent states were spending their Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds and whether the Department of Labor's (Labor's) data accurately reflected available funds; (2) what Labor did to assess how states were managing their WIA spending; and (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation
Fowler, Sue – ARIS Resources Bulletin, 2002
Local Learning and Employment Networks (LLENs) are incorporated organizations and groups whose mission is to facilitate local partnerships for the purpose of improving young people's education and training outcomes in Australia. LLENs are supported by grants from Australia's Department of Education and Training. Of the 31 LLENs currently existing…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Change Agents, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning
Hayden, Joanna, Ed. – 2000
This document is intended to help health educators prepare for certification as a certified health education specialist (CHES). The study guide begins with a brief introduction and a self-assessment instrument that allows individuals to evaluate their skill in 27 competencies related to the following generic areas of responsibility in which CHES…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Behavioral Objectives, Certification, Colleges
Zandniapour, Lily; Conway, Maureen – 2001
The benefits of sectoral workforce development programs to the working poor were examined in a 3-year longitudinal study of participants in six sectoral employment training programs across the United States. The programs, which were all designed to serve low-income clients, provided training in a diverse set of industries, including the following:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Allied Health Occupations, Building Trades
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 2000
Officials in charge of California's community colleges and universities worked with an advisory committee consisting of representatives of two- and four-year public and independent colleges to develop a plan to ensure an adequate nursing workforce for California. The group reviewed existing nursing education programs, trends in the health care…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Bachelors Degrees, Change Strategies
Demetrion, George – 2000
The Bob Steele Reading Center was established in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1986 under board and staff leadership of the Literacy Volunteers of America-Connecticut (LVA-CT). The center has been under the management of Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford (LVGH) since 1989. Located in an alternative high school in a predominantly Hispanic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education
Kaplan, Jan – Issue Notes, 2001
Older teens living in families receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) face serious sociodemographic disadvantages. When combined with the characteristic risk-taking behaviors of adolescence, these disadvantages pose a threat to TANF teens' immediate and future physical, psychological, and emotional health and to their long-term…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Career Academies, Community Programs
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2001
Of the 477,800 students reported to Australia's national vocational education and training (VET) data collection in 2000, 237,900 were enrolled in a vocational adult and community education (ACE) program. More than 70% of the latter individuals undertook informal training. Vocational ACE programs accounted for 49.8% of all ACE students and nearly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students