Prepared for use by teachers, guidance counselors, administrators, and career education personnel, this source book is designed to stimulate ideas for program planning, to help them become acquainted with the kinds of activities other schools have found to be successful, to provide personnel from other school districts to contact who have worked…

This manual is an attempt to draw together relevant resources and information for localities interested in developing a bicycle law enforcement operation. It is divided into five major sections. Section I explains the need for and importance of bicycle law enforcement. In section II are presented examples of past and current bicycle law…

This guide is designed to provide additional resources for technology educators who are attempting to shift their programs from industrial arts to technology education. An introduction describes the original demonstration site project, a consortium of Northeastern U.S. schools, the primary goal of which was the advancement of technological…

The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory has developed principles for culturally responsive education, along with a series of tools to help educators respond to the needs of students from a variety of cultural backgrounds. This selective listing of promising programs and practices has been developed to provide examples of professional…

This resource booklet is a companion to the Urban Audio Journal entitled "Shared Responsibilities--Changed Lives: School-Linked & Community-Based Integrated Services." The audio journal and the resource book are intended to help urban practitioners, policymakers, and others in efforts to develop and implement school-linked and community-based…

This report provides an in-depth review of the "newcomer program phenomenon" and is designed to promote discussion of how schools can best educate and safeguard the rights of immigrant children. Through telephone interviews and site visits, the report presents data on the characteristic features of existing newcomer programs, the…

Chapter 1 of this reference manual is a summary of the comprehensive competencies program (CCP). It describes this system for organizing, implementing, managing, and efficiently delivering individualized self-paced instruction, combined with group and experience-based learning activities, using computer-assisted instruction. (The CCP covers not…