Getting a head start on college coursework in high school has become an even more important goal for high school students in recent years, due in part to the rising costs of obtaining traditional four-year college degrees coupled with the disruptions in learning for high school and college students due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now more than ever,…

MDRC launched the Opening Doors demonstration to test four distinct interventions that were designed to help more students persist in community college and accomplish their academic and personal goals. This report describes the impacts of a performance-based scholarship program with a counseling component on academic success and persistence among…

This handbook was prepared to assist those coordinating the VITAL program in participating schools and agencies. It is designed primarily for use by counselors or other coordinators as an instrument for presenting VITAL occupational information to students who are interested in gainful employment after leaving school. The information provided in…

The report describes a Louisiana pilot program for providing integrated career education activities for grades K-14. The program contains five components: guidance and counseling, elementary, junior high, grades 10-14, and placement. The body of the report, 21 pages, describes the goals and objectives of each program component, the overall project…

A federally funded program to provide job skills, English language skills, and other support services to Haitian immigrants in Massachusetts and Louisiana is described. The Experiment in International Living and the firm of ACCESS, Inc., worked cooperatively with community organizations to serve a total of 794 Haitians in two areas in the…

To provide occupational training to disadvantaged groups, a 6-month experimental program was conducted for 150 men and women to: (1) stabilize the rural community, (2) turn technological advancement into opportunity for area residents, (3) obtain information about racially related training and employment problems, and (4) stimulate other groups to…

NINETY DISADVANTAGED WHITE AND NEGRO FEMALE TRAINEES, 18 TO 44 YEARS OF AGE, WERE GIVEN 950 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION IN TYPING, SHORTHAND, BUSINESS SPEECH, AND ANCILLARY COURSES DURING A 24-WEEK PERIOD. THE EXPERIMENTAL PHASE OF THE PROGRAM CONSISTED OF DEVELOPING ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE GROUP TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING BUSINESS SPEECH TO ADULTS WHOSE…

This report describes and assesses the 1993-94 (October 1, 1993 through September 1994) activities of the federally-funded Bilingual Education Multifunctional Resource Center based at the University of Oklahoma and serving a nine-state area (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee).…