The Exemplary Project in Career Education was designed to stimulate the development of specific activities and programs in career education which would assist students in developing self-concepts and good attitudes while expanding career knowledge and job skills in South Carolina school districts. An administrative staff from the Region Five…

When youngsters in a Massachusetts Upward Bound program became disciplinary problems instead of learners, it appeared that the program more than the youngsters needed correcting. (Editor)

This presentation describes the child care center at Detroit's Mount Carmel Hospital, a division of the Sisters of Mercy Health Corporation employing approximately 1,550 women. Discussion focuses on reasons for establishing the center, facility acquisition, program details, program management, developmental philosophy, parent involvement, policy…

This manual is for administrator and teacher use in planning a program and individual courses for adults in dental assisting in vocational, technical, and adult programs. The manual was developed by a supervisor, a teacher-coordinator, teachers, and dentists at the local level and tested in the local school. The objectives are to prepare…

An investigation of the activities of the state Right to Read Programs during the periods from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1974 is provided in this volume. In order to determine the effects of the programs at the state and local educational-agency levels, data were obtained from visits to the 31 state departments of education involved and to…

Case studies describing the program operation of the 31 state components of the Right to Read Program during the periods from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1974 are provided in this volume. Data are grouped into nine major categories of investigation: estimated participation in programs, projection of total participation, training activities,…

A model for college-level translation training for the professions at the American University (District of Columbia) is described, and suggestions for adaptation are provided. The training consists of a translation component implemented in existing regular departmental foreign language courses. The model provides students with introductory…

Provides guidelines developed by the Center for Occupational Education at North Carolina State University for use in conducting on-site examinations of career education programs. (SB)

Since 1974, Glendale Community College (GCC) has offered a variety of biology, social science, and language classes at a field station located on the Baja California peninsula, Republic of Mexico. This guide to GCC's Baja California Field Studies Program (BCFSP) provides manuals, forms, job descriptions, contracts with participating organizations,…

This study was designed to discover the extent to which school districts provided inservice education for their secondary school teachers of English from the fall of 1969 through the 1971-72 academic year, to determine if inservice consisted of continuous, process-oriented growth experiences structured primarily to benefit the teaching of English…

This book examines the history and experience of programs for children of inmates. Section 1 discusses parental ties, emphasizing bonding and the father's role. Section 2 describes prison nurseries, day care and children's centers, parenting classes, furloughs, family and conjugal visits, community facilities, visitation policies, support…

Colby Community College's (CCC) Fitness Lab was established to provide the Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) Program with a learning laboratory in which students can practice classroom-acquired skills, while at the same time promoting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual well-being of CCC students and staff, and community members. A…

The Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) was designed to provide local educational agencies with financial assistance to eliminate minority group segregation, to prevent minority group isolation, and to aid children who have been educationally disadvantaged because of isolation. An overview of the programs funded under the ESAA is provided in this…

A project was done to assist four high schools to install programs for students which incorporate experience-based career education (EBCE) philosophy and activities and assist in the construction of district-wide structures which support these programs. The major components of project activities were project management, tenth-grade sequence of…

This workshop report deals with developing a youth service corps. Twenty-nine representatives from 15 youth corps attended the workshop, the second in a series of six sponsored by the Youth Corps Exchange Project. The report begins with an overview of the highlights of the workshop. The second section, which discusses the need for human services,…