Dr. Ack, director of the division of school mental health of the Menninger Foundation looks at educational institutions and finds them lacking in relevancy and effect. This article, from his speech in March 1970 for the Kansas Home Economics Association, is based on material he had prepared for the Spring 1969 issue of College and University.…

The data used in the report were compiled from several indices used to evaluate the career education efforts in Pima and Cochise Counties in Arizona. The findings unequivocally show a trend whereby career education exposure enhances occupational knowledge, career awareness, economic awareness, decision-making skills, and realistic career planning…

This document contains the best 11 field tested vocational decisionmaking programs (and their attendant evaluations) developed during the Vocational Decision Making Workshop, held in Arizona during the 1975-76 academic year. (Eighteen high school counselors and vocational education teachers participated in the workshop, designed to help them learn…

Because an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teacher in Pennsylvania observed from the intake questionnaires completed by her students that many ESL students lack short- and long-term goal-setting skills, she undertook an action research project to help ESL students develop the short- and long-term goal-setting skills needed for educational,…