Prepared as part of a comprehensive study of reading in Virginia, this booklet contains standards identified by educators that must be exhibited by reading programs in order for them to be classified as "excellent." The ten standards are organized around four components: the learner and learning environment, organizing and managing a…

The goal of a project was to survey the vocational divisions of state departments of education across the nation in order to provide the vocational division of Virginia with information upon which to base decisions concerning the development of its vocational exploratory program. A search of the literature was done and an ERIC search completed.…