90-Day Cycles are a disciplined and structured form of inquiry designed to produce and test knowledge syntheses, prototyped processes, or products in support of improvement work. With any type of activity, organizations inevitably encounter roadblocks to improving performance and outcomes. These barriers might include intractable problems at…

This book is a compilation of drug education and drug abuse prevention materials collected by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) along with example of activities carried out by various countries. It opens with four introductory papers by separate authors: (1) "Prevention of Drug Dependence: A Utopian…

Written for the general audience concerned with management information systems for use by vocational education agencies, this document is one of six describing the Management Information System for Vocational Education (MISVE), and provides a capsule summary of the major purposes and features of MISVE, which was designed to provide users with an…

This brief guide describes the Career Planning Support System (CPSS), a career guidance management system designed to be integrated into a high school's operations and also designed for district or state application. The guide covers the following aspects of CPSS: (1) the CPSS perspective and five skill categories (self-awareness, social…

The "Model Secondary (6-12) Plan for Reading Intervention and Development" has been designed to meet the cognitive needs of middle school through high school students whose reading performance ranges from those significantly below expectation through those reading at or above grade level. The reading needs of the population of students in need of…

One of six documents describing the Management System for Vocational Education (MISVE), this document is intended to provide those persons who would administer, manage, or support MISVE operations with a basic understanding of the product package. This description of MISVE includes purposes and features, how the system differs from other…

What are the common tasks facing cities committed to saturating their city with high quality out-of-school opportunities, available to every young person? While no list is definitive or complete, we identify ten critical tasks. (Background and Contact information is appended. Contains 5 footnotes and 9 figures.)

The brochure illustrates the program design for industrial arts education in New York State and briefly describes the early secondary and high school levels and the basic and technology series. The instructional content on the primary level emphasizes orientation to the nature of work and is divided into five major time blocks according to each…

The Bellevue (Washington) public schools' Spanish immersion program is described and program-related information is provided for parents. The description outlines general program goals and the basic educational assumptions underlying them, briefly chronicles the history of immersion education and of the Bellevue program, enumerates curriculum…

This report describes the Orleans Parish Allied Health Profession Counseling Program, a three-year project developed to evaluate the effectiveness of providing health career information in a structured classroom setting. The materials for this program, which was designed specifically to provide high school students with detailed information…

This catalog presents 40 of the optional educational programs developed in New York State that accommodate factors such as student needs, parental preferences, and teacher interests. The catalog includes guidelines for establishing alternative learning programs and a request for information from other New York schools that have established such a…

The publication presents guidelines to assist secondary schools in developing and implementing a job placement service within an existing guidance program. The need for and the goals of a school placement program are given. Areas to be considered in developing a program according to one of three organizational patterns (decentralized, centralized,…

Activities conducted by the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Needs (BSN) Division of Occupational Education designed to strengthen communication between BSN central staff and regional staff, and to explain more fully to the regional staff the goals and priorities for service to the disadvantaged and handicapped, are described in this handbook.…

This project was designed to give children opportunities to discover and to investigate plants, animals, and ecological relationships in their own neighborhoods. Through hands-on, natural science investigations, children have opportunities to find and observe a variety of plants and animals, look at them closely, sort them to analyze their…

The Mutual Aid Project (MAP) has developed a community organizing and planning approach which has focused its attention on the continuing role of older people within their neighborhoods. This approach has sought to strengthen not only the day-to-day arrangements for mutual aid and support, but also those actions which will assist groups in…