A national pilot school for career education, Mesa Verde High School, Sacramento, subscribes to the philosophy that every student will be provided an abundance of career choices at all times whether he is vocationally, technically, or academically bound. A variety of work opportunities on the campus makes the program possible. (AG)

Harbor Heights Elementary School in the Peninsula school district of Washington State is engaged in a career education research project. The sixth-graders of Harbor Heights use a fully equipped greenhouse to become aware of the working world through the occupations associated with ornamental horticulture. (DS)

At New River Community College in Dublin, Virginia, a variable merit-pay plan is underway. The plan, designed by the faculty's Improvement of Instruction Committee uses a variety of inputs from students, peers, and supervisors. The variety of subjective inputs are used to assure a relatively objective assessment of faculty. (DS)

An outreach program for welfare families where both parents cooperate. (Editor/MU)

The National Association of Home Builders, in cooperation with the Department of Labor and HEW, has designed and implemented a youthful offender program. This program offers job training and placement in carpentry apprenticeships together with basic education and has had a very high success rate. (Author/DS)

The resurgence of interest in vocational guidance and emergence of various instructional specialists in career development at all levels have pointed to the need for a team of guidance workers and a guidance curriculum. Through this need has emerged a new and broader guidance delivery system. (Author/DS)

Describes a yard, garden, and home maintenance program designed to enable handicapped students to become employable workers. (SB)

Eight years of developmental work at Mt. San Jacinto College have demonstrated that individualized instruction for vocational education is possible, practical, cost effective, and necessary today. Currently in use at Mt. San Jacinto are individualized instruction, open enrollment, continuous progression, prescriptive education, mini courses, and a…

EPDA pilot program aspires to qualify industrial personnel for provisional teaching certificate in two-year period. (Editor)

Due to the decline in occupations in agriculture, South Carolina's Technical Education Center System is providing special school programs to pre-train workers for any industry willing to relocate into the State, or for any expanding industry within the State. (Author/DS)

Waiver nurses prove to be a highly motivated group not requiring rigid classroom structure. A source of womanpower well worth saving, in the opinion of Colorado educators. (Editor)

Students represent a great untapped source of assistance in the management of the educational system. The returns in student motivation, student responsibility, and pertinent suggestions for program improvement may make student committees worth operation. The Central Kentucky Vocational Educational Evaluation Project (VEEP) reports on a sub-study…