Describes Project READY (Realistic Education for Available Directions of Youth) in addressing the question of how an elementary teacher can endorse career education activities which appear to be on an adult level; focus is on the use of teacher developed instructional units and resolving the fears of the teachers relating to career education in…

This action research project developed an intervention to determine and change the attitudes and beliefs about students and gender bias. Targeted population were freshmen through seniors in two high schools in a blue collar, middle class community in northeastern Illinois. The problems were identified by student surveys on attitudes and beliefs…