This book is designed to be a resource tool for all environmental education advocates and supporters, particularly those seeking to fully incorporate environmental education into their state and local school system. It provides a conceptual model for understanding comprehensive environmental education programs and the steps necessary to achieve…

This monograph, summarizing the ideas of participants attending a two-day mini-conference, was developed to help educators to appreciate and recognize the valuable contributions that 4-H has made to career education and its potential for greater involvement in career education. The content is divided into four topic areas. First, the nature and…

Over the years, thousands of school systems have joined forces to provide a variety of services for their pupils. Some are relatively simple cooperatives created for a single purpose such as provision of vocational-technical or special education. Others are rather sophisticated organizations offering everything from inservice education for…

This sourcebook describes and analyzes contracted customized training for business and industry provided by community colleges. First, "Customized Job Training: Should Your Community College Be Involved?" by Robert J. Kopecek identifies issues to be considered in program decision making and suggests an organizational model for program delivery.…

This booklet provides a description of representative practices developed by various state educational agencies under State Leadership and Training Program (SLTP) grants funded by the Right to Read Office. The first section of the booklet contains approximately 30 individual SLTP project summaries. The second section describes each state's…

This monograph describes and analyzes recent efforts to develop measurable units for human services in the social services and mental health services areas. The issues surrounding the "unit of service" are examined along with the problems encountered by the system designer or information user in past projects, and some of today's more…

This report describes the program for financing public schools in Florida. The intent is to supply general information for those having a casual interest in state funding of schools and more detailed descriptions for the school administrator or the student of school finance. The first section of the report describes key features of the Florida…

The decline in Federal funding for state-provided social services during the 1980s triggered a transformation in the states' roles in family policymaking. This booklet documents four state initiatives designed to bring about systems change: (1) Healthy Start (California); (2) the Governor's Families and Children Initiative (Colorado); (3) the…

This report provides an overview of Iowa's statewide system of area schools, which provide career, college parallel, and adult education programs. Introductory notes describe the history of the Iowa public junior college movement, current status, enrollment growth over the last eight years, and a guide for utilizing the information that follows. A…

This guide describes the status of selected family resource programs in the United States and Canada. The first chapter provides detailed descriptions of 13 programs that offer collaborative and comprehensive services. These programs, which are often large and innovative, foster coalitions of service providers in order to offer an extensive range…

The history of adult and community education in Michigan since 1862 can be divided into five major periods. In the first period, 1862-1930, adult and evening education was instituted by Henri A. Hobart in the Upper Peninsula and was extended by Frank Cody in Detroit. During the second period, the 1930s, Charles Stewart Mott and Frank J. Manly laid…

Offering an overview of the development of the career education concept, its philosophy, and its implementation in existing programs, the document traces the history of career education movements, defines the term "career education," and provides a basis for an understanding of the comprehensive nature and scope of career education. It discusses a…

This report summarizes a project undertaken to differentiate between career education and vocational education, to end confusion among educators, legislators, and the public about similarities and differences of the two, and to examine the various points of potential linkage between them. Part 1 enumerates the needs that this project tried to…