The Council on Postsecondary Education (Council) is charged with guiding the reform efforts envisioned by state policy leaders in the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997 and is Kentucky's statewide postsecondary and adult education coordinating agency. To gain better insight into economic conditions and workforce trends,…

Passage of new laws, national standards regarding delegation, and the recommendation for at least one full-time nurse in every school have provided more visibility to the role of school nurses. Recent legislative amendments in Kentucky presented an opportunity to examine how the role of the school nurse is changing. Aims were to describe the (1)…

Extension professionals must be able to give volunteers programmatic ownership, resources, and the education needed to complete tasks. However, resources such as time and money are limited, especially in economic downtimes, making it even more necessary to look at creative ways to bridge the gap between what programs and services can and should be…

As employers scan the current workforce and anticipate future workforce needs, they frequently find that employees are not well-equipped with core content knowledge and 21st century workplace competencies, the combination of which the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation defines as "deeper learning." The cumulative effect of these…

An effective school requires an effective leader, but great principals rarely just happen. They are cultivated. This Wallace Perspective draws on a decade of foundation research and work in school leadership to show how urban school districts can play a major role in ensuring they have principals who can boost teaching and learning in troubled…

America is experiencing renewed interest in the important role school administrators play in initiating and sustaining school excellence. The perception of the school principal as a passive, reactive manager has yielded to a more accurate recognition of the administrator as a proactive instructional leader. To obtain relevant information…

OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICE IN GUIDANCE FOCUSES ON THE DIFFERING NEEDS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR KNOWLEDGE OF OCCUPATIONS. OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION IS DEFINED AS ACCURATE, UP-TO-DATE TREATMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA IMPORTANT TO THE PROCESS OF OCCUPATIONAL SELECTION, PREPARATION, PLACEMENT, AND ADJUSTMENT. TO MEET THE NEED FOR SUCH…

A study asked 318 randomly selected teachers from Kentucky to rate validated job descriptions for school council vacancies. Teachers with greater numbers of dependent children and prior school-council experience rated these positions more negatively than did teachers with fewer dependent children and no prior experience. Implications are…

Using a hypothetical example of how a job placement program was developed in a small, rural community, this booklet is intended as a guide to aid local high school systems in the development of job placement programs. Written in a question/answer format, it focuses on four major objectives of a job placement program: To provide information to…

This final report of the Kentucky Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational Education summarizes the activities covered from April 1, 1967 to August 31, 1969. Major activities during this period included: (1) stimulating research, (2) carrying out research and development projects, (3) identifying potential research problems, (4) disseminating…

This survey of 130 schools of the Kentucky High School Speech League was designed to develop a profile of the Kentucky forensics coach. The survey consisted of nine basic questions, including education, Kentucky residency, experience, salary, class load, extra responsibilities, extent of the forensic and dramatic programs, and school and…

A survey was conducted to determine the nature of career education programs provided for gifted/talented (G/T) students in the West Kentucky service region. Thirteen gifted coordinators completed questionnaires on programing. All respondents indicated that some type of pull out program was employed for their G/T students. Fifteen percent also…

Designed for ninth grade disadvantaged and educable mentally handicapped students for occupational orientation and exploration, this revised curriculum guide consists of eight sections, five of which incorporate simulation units to provide hands-on experience. The sections are: Orientation to the School; Orientation to Self in Relation to the…

This two-part project was designed to determine the effectiveness of the staff exchange program in Kentucky. Part 1 of the project involved personal interviews conducted with selected vocational educators who had been involved in the staff exchange program during its six-year history. Also interviewed were the cooperating business and industry…

This manual presents the master lists of 206 job titles of 167 different Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) code numbers which were held by physically handicapped graduates/completers of vocational programs as determined by a business and industry survey and graduate followup. (The project itself is reported in CE 026 163; survey and followup…