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Peterson, Elizabeth A.; Ott, Joyce; Wilson, Kathleen – 2002
This document is intended to help literacy practitioners and others in South Carolina promote workplace literacy and basic skills development programs. The introduction examines the following topics: South Carolina's current workforce and its outlook; the definitions of literacy and workplace literacy; the need for workplace literacy and basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship
Whitcomb, Emeline S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
A national conference of city supervisors of home economics was called by the U.S. Commissioner of Education, and attended by representatives from 20 States and the District of Columbia, plus one representative from New Zealand. The three-day conference was convened in Washington, D.C., to: (1) bring together supervisors, teachers of home…
Descriptors: Health Education, Home Economics Education, Citizenship, Home Economics
Wilson, Martha, Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
This list is based on the Minnesota school library list, Books for High Schools, 1913-14. The number of titles has been materially increased to include the suggestions of many high-school teachers, specialists in the Bureau of Education, high-school librarians, public librarians, and commission workers. The effort has been to provide a thoroughly…
Descriptors: School Libraries, High Schools, Educational Finance, Psychology
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1974
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education (OE) in 1973. Among topics covered are education finance, including equalization, "Serrano v. Priest," "Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School District," "Barrera v. Wheeler," the National…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Court Litigation, Postsecondary Education
Mortimer, Peter – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
France is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leading force in Europe. A highly literate and well-educated society, France's education statistics for 2003 show 12.1 million French children in primary and secondary education and 2.2 million students in tertiary education. The concept of education as a market commodity--long since…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Economics
Finlay, Belva, Ed. – 1996
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) 1996 report on the state of America's children highlights the critical need for renewed commitment to children by early childhood advocates, parents, and all sectors of society. The introduction describes in general the crises faced by children and calls for adults to recommit their energies to providing solutions…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Health
Galaway, Burt, Ed.; Hudson, Joe, Ed. – 1994
This book contains 27 papers that were originally developed for a research and policy symposium at which Canadian community economic development (CED) was examined in terms of research and policy requirements. The book contains the following papers: "Community Economic Development Practice in Canada" (Brodhead); "Community Economic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Change Agents, Community Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. – 1995
This document records the proceedings of a Congressional hearing on the role of the federal government in education policy. Statements are provided by Richard Riley (Secretary of Education), Bret Schundler (Mayor, Jersey City, New Jersey), Tommy Thompson (Governor, Wisconsin), and Representatives, William L. Clay (Missouri), William F. Goodling…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Information, Civil Rights, Decentralization
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ. – 1988
Without good schools, none of America's hopes can be fulfilled. Since 1983, school reform has been at the top of the national agenda; however, there is a disturbing gap between rhetoric and results. After travelling to some of the nation's largest cities and interviewing administrators and teachers, Carnegie Foundation representatives determined…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Williams, Barbara I.; And Others – 1987
This study documents the ways in which Chapter 1 services are delivered across the nation at the local school district level. Data were collected by mail and telephone surveys of district and Chapter 1 administrators in 2,200 nationally representative school districts. The following topics are discussed: (1) profile of Chapter 1 districts; (2)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Bandy, Patricia, Ed. – 1984
Designed to encourage informed and critical thinking on contemporary political issues and processes, the articles, case studies, and activities in this student handbook can be incorporated into secondary school social studies units on government or current events. Eight chapters cover the presidency, the federal bureaucracy, the Congress, the…
Descriptors: Budgets, Bureaucracy, Case Studies, Conflict
Engbretson, William E.; Levine, Eugene A. – 1980
The product of a study of urban Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs involving youths aged 16-22 that would result in real or potential job creation and community economic development, this report consists of 24 case studies and a series of recommendations pertaining to the development of similar programs in Illinois.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Baumheier, Edward C.; And Others – 1976
The present state of American Indian child welfare was investigated via: a review of published and unpublished literature; an analysis of legislation, regulations, manuals, and other documents concerning Federal and state Indian child welfare; mail surveys in 22 states with substantial Indian populations; field interviews at 19 sites, including 12…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adopted Children, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role
Woodrow, Raymond J. – 1978
A distinction is made between management for research and management of research. The former refers to the provision of a nourishing climate, sound policies supporting services of various kinds, financial systems, and organizational arrangements that will help research to flourish in a university. It exists to support the management of research, a…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Ancillary School Services, College Administration
Israel, William I., Ed. – 1978
Collected in this volume are the papers presented at the 1978 Chief State School Officers Summer Institute. The program was devoted to political issues in education and focused on a number of current educational problems. Political issues were discussed in relation to a number of areas, including federal education priorities, federal-state…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Career Education