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Poindexter, Mary Jo – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1975
To provide educational relevance, enable students to gain community awareness, and provide opportunities for self-discipline and individualized learning, an interdisciplinary team (Problems of Democracy, English, and Consumer Economics) in a California high school offer a one-semester course to senior high school students in which the classroom is…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Home Economics Education, Individualized Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach
Wilhelms, Fred T., Ed. – 1979
The results of a one-year project to determine the status of provisions for consumer education throughout the country are reported in this document. A section on the observations and recommendations of the advisory committee of the consumer's education project serves as the document's introduction. Part I, background and overview, analyzes the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Consumer Education, Educational Policy, Federal State Relationship
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1977
The purpose of the project reported here involving six high schools and one community college in California was to implement and evaluate consumer education curriculum models comprised of instructional modules developed by teachers in each of the participating schools. After presenting a brief overview of the project, this report describes the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Consumer Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Mount San Antonio Coll., Walnut, CA. – 1993
In an effort to improve community college home economics programs, the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges established the Center for Consumer Home Economics Education (CCHEE) to provide support services for colleges receiving home economics MiniGrants, to establish linkages between colleges and the Chancellor's Office, and to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Consumer Education, Educational Finance
Baker, Octave V.; Steinaker, Norman – 1978
This description of career education activities in Ontario-Montclair School District (California), was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning, Community Involvement