This resource guide provides information to teachers, business/industry representatives, and local administrators who are interested in working together to update technical/teaching skills of vocational teachers. It contains a purpose, objectives, and a list of activities designed to upgrade teacher occupational competencies. Information for…

School reorganization has been used extensively as a strategy to deal with the problems of small and rural schools. However, there is no comprehensive evidence to prove that consolidation has met the problems of finance, staff, facilities, and curriculum for which it has been advocated, nor are consolidation's disadvantages and ill-effects of the…

The adjustment difficulties of Japanese high school students studying in the United States were examined in order to create a framework for the construction of orientation materials for exchange students. A total of 106 Japanese students enrolled in U.S. senior high schools as participants in the AFS Year Program to the United States completed a…

The range of problems, issues, and practices pertaining to international educational interchange in higher education are reviewed in this handbook for campus-based personnel and the community at large dealing with the 300,000 foreign students in America. Needs and obligations of both students and institutions are spelled out, and guidelines are…

The potential for college-public school partnerships and issues of faculty workload, incentives, and rewards were assessed by an advisory task force. Six areas of possible cooperation were identified: responding to teacher shortages, improving the transition to college, providing tutoring and other volunteer services to public school students,…