This study examined transition services provided to students with disabilities in their secondary environments and whether or not these services prepared students with disabilities to post-secondary transition. Fifty students with varying disabilities from seven southeastern high schools participated in this study. Quantitative and qualitative…

Article suggests methods and high school programs that may be provided to teachers and administrators in developing student thinking processes. (Author/MM)

Why Pontiac was chosen to develop one of six USOE career education models and what the experience has meant to the school district and community. (Editor)

DESCRIPTIONS OF 18 DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHICH ARE PLANNING OR HAD IN OPERATION PROGRAMS FOR SUPERIOR AND TALENTED STUDENTS AS OF JULY 1960 ARE INCLUDED. THE STATES INVOLVED ARE CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, IDAHO, KENTUCKY, MASSACHUSETTS, OREGON, SOUTH CAROLINA, VERMONT, AND WASHINGTON. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE…

Depicts adolescents' lively, voluntary involvement in constructive alternatives to the counterproductive teenage ventures filling the morning's newspapers. Successful youth organizations adopt a firm and flexible approach, empower rather than infantilize youths, and have clear goals and membership rules. Many out-of-school settings share features…

Secondary school counselors, whose original purpose was to help high school students choose appropriate courses and apply to college, are now a more integral part of students' daily lives. By designing and implementing a preventive and developmental counseling program, counselors can positively affect school direction and students' personal,…

Describes Project Upward Bound, a federal program providing the disadvantaged with opportunities for completing postsecondary education. Shows high school English teachers how they can join with Upward Bound programs to strengthen student language learning. (JT)

The proposed "classroom" approach identifies the school counselor as a primary participant in students' overall development. This model enhances students' mental and emotional well-being by providing a preventive/developmental context, normalizing developmental struggles, increasing awareness of self and others, encouraging appreciation of…

Sought to identify New Zealand secondary principals' views concerning teacher evaluation systems they had designed. Generally, principals developed systems meeting their own requirements. Some prioritized developmental purposes; others included accountability purposes. The two groups experienced different outcomes. In some cases, staff opposition…

The Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) is a systematic effort to design and implement a new educational strategy that will ensure that students will be prepared either for immediate employment or continuing education upon leaving school. The CCEM seeks to restructure curriculum at all grade levels in terms of knowledge of career and human…

Many school administrators view teenage pregnancy as a top problems facing their school systems. Programs designed to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate must address multiple factors connected with teenage pregnancy. School-based clinic programs provide comprehensive primary health care for low income youth, require parental consent, provide mental…

Although differences exist between their developmental perspectives, the theories of Erik Erikson, with a psychoanalytic focus, and Piaget and Kohlberg, with a cognitive, structural view, are basically complementary, providing a powerful observation on human growth. Here their theories are used to reexamine the secondary curriculum and the…

This paper describes a model career development program for former drug users and non-degreed professionals working in the drug field. Services center around the undergraduate program leading to a B.A. degree in Behavioral Sciences with a minor in Addiction Studies. Goals and philosophy are explicated; operational problems are delineated. (Author)

Suggests integrating eating disorders and weight management (ED/WM) guidance units in existing junior and senior high school programs. Outlines rationale for ED/WM units, identifies goals of interventions, discusses general information regarding practical implementation of model, and presents three potential program components (cognitive,…

Covering the time period from July 1973 to July 1974, the report documents the first year of a project to implement career education in the Highline High School in Seattle. A career alternatives model (CAM) to provide each student with opportunities to consider all alternatives is described as a means for student development in self awareness,…