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Warger, Cynthia L.; Cuskaden, Eileen C. – 1990
This booklet, based on the Transition Through the Arts project developed by Very Special Arts, describes the successes that project instructors have achieved in using the arts to assist individuals with developmental disabilities reach employment. The project uses the arts as a vehicle to teach and reinforce the social and personal skill…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Curriculum Development, Developmental Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
McCann, William J., Jr. – 1986
Changes in foreign student services and tuition and admission policies affecting foreign students from 1983 to 1985 were surveyed at 681 public colleges and universities. With annual percentage increases below 1%, most colleges had stable (42%) or declining (30%) foreign enrollment since 1983. A third of the schools did not maintain foreign…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Ancillary School Services, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1988
This document presents witnesses' testimonies and prepared statements from the first of a series of Congressional hearings on the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Opening remarks are included from Representatives Dale Kildee, Augustus Hawkins, Thomas Tauke, and Thomas Sawyer. Issues are raised about the jail…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Federal Legislation, Hearings
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1981
Developed to share information presented at a Southwest Educational Development Laboratory Regional Exchange (SEDL/RX) conference, this document includes reports and related materials on educational computing applications in southwestern school districts and states. Basic computer terminology is defined, and software evaluation instruments are…
Descriptors: Competence, Courseware, Evaluation Criteria, Microcomputers
Berry, Irma – 1983
Based on information collected from a survey of selected state library agencies, this booklet describes the governance, funding, membership criteria, and services of library systems in Illinois, New York, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Connecticut. An overview of the development of multitype library systems and definitions of…
Descriptors: Interlibrary Loans, Library Administration, Library Networks, Library Services
Armenoff, Thomas C., Ed.; Horn, Jerry G., Ed. – 1982
The 1982 proceedings of the joint meeting of the Fourth Annual Kansas State University Rural and Small Schools Conference and the Kansas Community Education Association Conference contain texts of 33 papers with separate bibliographies, plus the conference agenda. Topics most discussed are curriculum development/planning, computers and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Community Development, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment
Clark, Sharon E. – 1987
This Systems and Procedures Evaluation Center (SPEC) kit is based on information and documents submitted by 15 Association of Research Library (ARL) member libraries in response to an August 1986 questionnaire mailed to 19 ARL libraries selected on the basis of their size, level of automation, and organizational structure of copy cataloging. A…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Cataloging, Higher Education
Muller, Douglas; Pettibone, Timothy – 1983
This paper compares the characteristics of dot-matrix and daisy wheel printers using a two-column format. In the first section, the left column is used to point out the advantages of dot-matrix printers, while the daisy wheel printer is praised in the right-hand column. Examples of various capabilities are included. Advantages of the dot-matrix…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Input Output Devices, Layout (Publications), Microcomputers
Langen, Herbert J.; Thomas, Violet S. – 1979
This report contains a description of the economic outlook of Arizona and the nation as a whole, information on nationwide skill centers and their efforts to meet industry's needs, and recommendations for a program that would be effective in answering future labor needs. Section 1 includes the economic outlook for Arizona and the nation; a report…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Definitions, Demonstration Programs, Economic Climate
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1981
The Select Committee on Indian Affairs met July 29, 1981 to hear testimony concerning S. 792, a bill to provide for the establishment of a national institute to preserve, revitalize, and disseminate Indian art and culture. Bill S. 792 was endorsed by senators from Oregon and Hawaii and, with certain reservations, by representatives of eight Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Art
OTT, ELIZABETH – 1967
THE BASIC CONCEPTS USED IN DEVELOPING THE LANGUAGE AND READING EDUCATION PROGRAM WERE--(1) ALL HUMAN ORGANISMS ARE ESSENTIALLY ALIKE AND THEREFORE MAN'S BASIC NEEDS ARE THE SAME, (2) FUNDAMENTAL LIKENESSES EXIST IN ALL CULTURES, (3) CHILDREN FIRST INTRODUCED TO THE DIMENSIONS OF THEIR OWN CULTURE ARE READY TO MOVE TOWARD UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Culture, Disadvantaged
Arizona State Dept. of Public Instruction, Phoenix. Div. of Migrant Child Education. – 1975
Since 1970, the Migrant Child Teacher and Aide Institute has introduced approximately 175 Arizona teachers and 50 aides to new curriculum concepts in the areas of oral language development, reading, and individualized instruction. Jointly selected by the building principal, school superintendent, and the State Director of Migrant Education,…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Language Acquisition
Brickell, Henry M.; And Others – 1974
The taxonomy is designed to characterize, summarize, and generalize about the career education movement. It describes career education projects by the following paradigm: topics, dimensions, measures, and descriptors. (The four topics are: school district, career education project, career education instructional program, and evaluation of career…
Descriptors: Career Education, Classification, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Santana, Ray; And Others – 1974
During the 1960's, the Chicano movement directed considerable attention, energy, and resources toward educational change. The predominant mood was optimism and anticipation of major institutional change; the predominant tactic used was militant confrontation. Countless confrontations occurred and numerous plans and strategies for educational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Egermeier, John C. – 1968
The objectives of Project Vision were to undertake a program to encourage reading-improvement and stimulate interest in higher education and vocational information for the students at Chilocco Indian Agricultural School and to provide practice teaching experience to Oklahoma State University Student Teachers. Several activities were undertaken to…
Descriptors: American Indians, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Education
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