This document contains four working papers dealing with various aspects of career education. "Career Education: Description and Goals," prepared by E. L. Rumpf and others, defines career education and identifies and discusses eight characteristics and seven career education goals. "Career Education: A Model for Implementation," prepared by J.…

Summarizes research on instruction-related practices and policies and their implementation in effective urban schools. Discusses outcomes-based instruction, effective organizational arrangements for low achievers, instructional coordination, avoidance of overemphasis on lower order skills, operationalization of shared values, "organic"…

A three-year study was conducted to evaluate the implementation of the Transitional School Model in the Des Moines, Iowa, Independent Community School District. The model was designed to provide early adolescents in grades 6-8 with a more comprehensive bridge between elementary school and high school by emphasizing students' physical, emotional,…

A 3-day conference on the child-oriented primary school was convened in Vienna for the purposes of disseminating findings of the Council of Europe's Council for Cultural Cooperation's (CDCC) Project No. 8, Innovation in Primary Education (IPE), and examining issues relating to a review of Austria's primary school curriculum. Participants were…

Issues and developments concerning the education of Israeli youth in residential schools are summarized in this report of a seminar which brought together educators from the United States and Israel. The first part of the report describes the residential school and gives its history as both part of a long tradition, and as it particularly evolved…