The first section of the manual on secondary level industrial arts goal and competencies concerns the ALIVE (Allied Learning Vocational Exploration) Program, a student-managed, individualized learning program involving art, home economics, and industrial arts in a team instruction approach. It provides goals, competencies, and performance…

A proposed plan for environmental education for the State of Oregon, aimed at coordinating existing environmental education programs and implementing new ones, is contained in this document. Five areas of particular concern are emphasized. These include: Program and Curriculum Development, Teacher Training, Educational Facilities, Community…

This report is an assessment of the events of the first year of operation of John Adams High School, Portland, Oregon. The primary goal of the school was to provide an educational experience relevant to the needs and interests of all adolescents, regardless of their intentions about pursuing further formal education. The report is oriented toward…

The project was designed to familiarize students, teachers, administrators, parents, board members, and others with the concept of career awareness through personal involvement. Emphasis was placed on the various aspects of assessment, planning, implementation, and continuation of the Awareness Program within the existing curriculum in each school…

The architects, with the teaching staff, administration, students, and community, worked as a team to make a coordinated statement of the physical, functional, and esthetic proposals for a new school. The space and functional requirements of each teaching area have been documented and analyzed to arrive at a realistic appraisal of need for the…

The final report of the planning phase of Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) serves a dual purpose: It provides a summary description of the overall project and of each of the units; and it records the interim and final evaluations. Project COULD was conceived as a partial answer to the problem that 60 percent of the…

This report is the second in a series describing the background, theory, and progress of the Differentiated Staffing Project in the Eugene, Oregon, School District. The report discusses the Organizational Development Training Program, its rationale, its activities, and its relationship to the Unitized Project. It describes the main ideas of OD…

In attempting to address the problems that are embraced by the term "corrections education," the study identifies three areas of inquiry: client education, staff education, and community education. Focusing on State funded corrections education programs in Oregon, data for the study were collected in 1973. Existing programs are reviewed…