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Peer reviewedGottlieb, Suzanne – Journal of Legal Education, 1979
Part-time day legal education--the need, purposes, drawbacks, and how it has been and is being utilized--is discussed. Part-time day legal education is seen as being available to a group of people who have been restricted from attending law school, i.e., parents, usually women. A survey is reported. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Day Programs, Evening Programs
Weiter, Steve – Computers in Libraries, 1996
Describes how a library automation system administrator developed a computer support network for the Finger Lakes Library System's (New York) evening and weekend hours. Discusses support options and decision-making factors--hiring extra staff, utilizing vendors, pagers, cellular phones, or contracting for third-party support. After employing staff…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, Information Technology, Library Automation, Library Networks
Download full textKett, Joseph F. – 1990
The history of vocational education in the United States from 1860-1930 is seen from a different perspective than that in existing accounts of the rise of mass vocational education. In this perspective, vocational education is defined broadly as encompassing professional training, including training for professions that emerged in that era (such…
Descriptors: Business Education, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational History
Ratcliffe, Carl J. – 1982
A study was conducted in 1981 at John C. Calhoun State Community College to determine the need for evening child care services, the possibility of state or federal funding for these services, and the attitudes of students without dependent children toward the use of student activity funds to provide child care. Surveys were administered to 144…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Day Care, Evening Programs
Mollenhauer, Emery C. – 1978
A number of colleges and universities are providing greater access to higher education by developing off-campus programs and courses. A study of such off-campus activities offered for credit in the Middle States area draws on data from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools) survey and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Adult Education, Articulation (Education), College Faculty
Educational Service Region of Cook County, Chicago, IL. – 1980
This study examined the form and availability of alternative education programs in suburban Cook County, Illinois, public secondary schools. Alternative education was defined as any special program that is directed to specific academic, emotional, and/or work training needs of students. A survey was submitted to school districts to gather…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Dropout Programs, Educational Opportunities, Evening Programs
SAVIDES, HAROLD A. – 1960
THE 43 MALE STUDENTS STARTING THE MECHANICAL AND PRODUCTION TOOL DESIGN CURRICULUM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY OGONTZ CENTER AT ABINGTON, IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 1953-54, ALL EMPLOYED FULL TIME IN 19 AREA FIRMS, WERE CONSIDERED IN TWO GROUPS--DROPOUTS (STUDENTS WHO DID NOT REMAIN WITHIN THE PROGRAM TO COMPLETE THE FIVE YEARS OF COURSE WORK…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Dropouts, Counseling Services, Dependents
WRIGHT, JOHN W. – 1964
IN THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, THE SUPPLEMENTARY TEACHING PROGRAM PROVIDED AFTER-SCHOOL INSTRUCTION. IN SIX SCHOOLS IN CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS, CLASSES INCLUDED REMEDIAL READING, ARITHMETIC IMPROVEMENT, LANGUAGE ARTS, LIBRARY ACTIVITIES, INDIVIDUALIZED TUTORING, STUDENT LEADERSHIP, AND CLUBS TO ENCOURAGE INTEREST IN SPECIAL AREAS. EVALUATION…
Descriptors: After School Education, Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Compensatory Education
ALAM, MUBARKA; WRIGHT, E.N. – 1968
A STUDY OF NIGHT SCHOOL STAYINS AND DROPOUTS (PERSONS WHO MISSED CONSECUTIVE CLASSES) USED A RANDOMLY SELECTED SAMPLE OF 240 STAYINS AND 243 DROPOUTS FROM THE METROPOLITAN TORONTO (ONTARIO) BOARD OF EDUCATION EVENING CLASSES. INTERVIEWS WERE GUIDED BY QUESTIONNAIRES BUILT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FINDINGS OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH. BOTH CODING…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Age Differences, Attitudes, Course Content
LORING, ROSALIND KOLAN – 1966
TO DISCOVER TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS IN SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR MATURE WOMEN OFFERED BY UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISIONS AND EVENING COLLEGES, QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO 216 INSTITUTIONS (157 RESPONDED) AND AN INTERVIEW SCHEDULE WAS USED IN PERSONAL VISITS TO FIVE INSTITUTIONS. OF THE 157 SCHOOLS, 93 SCHEDULED PROGRAMS FOR ADULT WOMEN RANGING FROM…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Credit Courses, Enrollment, Evening Programs
Solomon, Daniel; And Others – 1963
Using 24 college and university teachers, this study investigated the effect of teaching styles on adult student learning and analyzed the results of a factor breakdown, interactions between teacher behavior and class and student characteristics, and profiles of teacher effectiveness. Gains in factual information were positively related to teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Class Size, Classroom Techniques
Brown, Jack E. – 1976
The primary purpose of this practicum was to investigate, identify, record, recommend, and test resolutions to the problem of educational/community resistance to alternative education in general and, more specifically, to identify and resolve as many of the educational/community resistance phenomena and facts as surround Nova High School. Problem…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Evening Programs
Swatt, Kenneth A. – 1972
Focusing on adult business education in the public evening school, the monograph first presents a brief history of the educational form and its philosophical foundations for progress and then lists programs of adult business curriculums, both preparatory and supplementary. The broad preparatory programs offer courses to educate adults for entry…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education
Association of Univ. Evening Colleges, Norman, OK. – 1969
The Association of University Evening Colleges held its 1969 conference in conjunction with the Galaxy Conference on Adult Education. Over 4,000 people representing 21 different organizations interested in adult education attended. Presentations dealt with the areas: learning to change, imperatives for action, the Nixon administration and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Attitude Change, Budgets, Community Colleges
Hudson, J. W. – 1969
Beginning with such movements as the eighteenth century moral reformation societies and Welsh Sunday schools, and the first adult schools for both men and women in the early 1800's, this historical review traces British adult education up to 1850. Emphasis is on the extensive and widespread programs of the Mechanics' (workingmen's) Institutes and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attendance, Budgets, Comparative Education
