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McMillan, Samuel H., Jr. – 1979
The University of Texas Pilot Program was operated in five sites in Texas (Abilene, Brownsville, El Paso, Houston, and Temple) to demonstrate the utility of competency-based high school diplomas for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients. Included among the program features common to all five sites were the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, High School Equivalency Programs
Rogers, Anne; Shore, Jane – 1980
Companies commit 2 to 5 billion dollars annually to employee tuition assistance plans, and an estimated 17 to 24 million employees are eligible for some form of tuition assistance. Despite these figures and despite widespread interest in the tuition-aid idea, a low 3 to 5 percent of eligible employees currently take advantage of the educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Education Work Relationship, Higher Education
Taggart, Robert – 1980
Prepared as a basic background document for an interagency task force on youth employment, this report analyzes youth employment policies and programs for the 1980s. The main body of the report consists of three sections. Section 1, entitled "Policy Perspectives on the Youth Employment Problem," contains a discussion of pathways to…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Potential, Employment Problems, Employment Programs
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1980
The booklet presents goals, objectives, and procedural guidelines for educational services to communication impaired children in Louisiana. Guidelines are set forth for the following aspects of speech, language, and hearing programs: evaluation, identification, and assessment; criteria for case selection; use of the weighted scale to assign…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communication Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1978
The Career Decision-Making Program (CDM) for secondary school students consists of approximately fifty individual products which can be used as a semester course, a six-to-eight-week exploratory course, independent units, or outside of the CDM program in other career guidance activities. The CDM program has two components: (1) the Exploring Career…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Hoots, William R., Jr., Ed. – 1980
This report of the National Conference on Elementary School Industrial Arts (ESIA) (1969-70) deals with the nature of industrial arts in the elementary school, different approaches and requirements for its implementation, and ways of meeting and solving problems. Section 1 defines ESIA. In section 2 a discussion of philosophical bases shows how…
Descriptors: Consultants, Elementary Education, Industrial Arts, Industrial Arts Teachers
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Administration and Finance. – 1977
This handbook presents the plan for the Alabama computerized certification program for school food service employees. The first section contains the following information and materials pertaining to the child nutrition certification program: rationale; position titles (Child Nutrition Program Director or Supervisor, Child Nutrition Program…
Descriptors: Certification, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Certificates, Employment Qualifications
Eddy, Wesley P. – 1979
Abstracts are presented of research studies undertaken in 1978-79 by the Planning and Research Branch of Alberta, Canada Education Department. Each report contains a statement of purpose, a description of design, an outline of results and recommendations based on study findings. Bibliographic information is provided on each study as well as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
COGSWELL, J.F.; AND OTHERS – 1967
AS A PRELIMINARY TO DESIGNING A MAN-MACHINE COUNSELING SYSTEM, THE GUIDANCE PRACTICES IN 13 SCHOOLS DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SEVEN STATES WERE SURVEYED TO STUDY THE VARIATIONS IN COUNSELING PRACTICES. ANALYSIS OF AN ACTUAL AND IDEAL SORT OF A Q-SORT DECK OF 48 CARDS, EACH CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF A DISCRETE COUNSELING ACTIVITY, INDICATED NO MARKED…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Computer Programs, Counselor Role, Counselor Training
National Child Labor Committee, New York, NY. – 1980
This manual for supervisors in the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) provides background on SYEP and tips on program supervision. Section 1 is a brief introduction. The history and purpose of SYEP are presented in section 2. Section 3 contains nine SYEP supervisor work rules (concerning time records, safety, accidents and illness,…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Guidelines, Job Training, Participant Characteristics
Von Hahn, Margaret; Riddell, Gail – 1979
This booklet is intended as a guide for community educators on planning and teaching educational programs for older adults. Chapter 1, Getting Started, discusses the program plan which identifies the sponsoring agency, advisory committee, and ways of determining needs and interests. Chapter 2, Designing the Program, focuses on the participants,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Continuing Education, Educational Gerontology
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Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1974
In 1973, the Education Development Center (EDC) received a grant for the production and support of 65 half-hour television programs. Aimed primarily at eight- to eleven-year-old minority children, the programs were to teach supplementary mathematical topics through real situations, drawing examples from science, technology, and the arts. Hands-on…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Educational Planning, Educational Television, Elementary Education
Haubrich, Vernon – 1968
Any attempt to change teacher education must recognize the bureaucratic nature of our educational system, a de facto national system with the graduate school as the capstone of an interlocking hierarchy in which power is centered on the middle level functionaries. Role definition and specialization of purpose tend to place the teacher in the role…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bureaucracy, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Stoehr, Keith W.; Covelli, Nicholas J. – 1977
Following an extensive literature review and a review of programs in 16 community colleges in fourteen states, this study sets forth a guide for educational program development for senior citizens who are defined as those who are 62 years of age and older. The author recommends that: (1) a full-time program specialist be hired to institute…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Bibliographies
Cormany, Robert – 1976
Written to accompany a three-volume set of teaching activities, this guide provides recommendations for staffing, structuring, and equipping a career education program. The introduction discusses the purpose of the guide, career education in Pennsylvania, and several laws pertaining to career education. Chapter I deals with the roles of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Career Education, Community Resources, Curriculum Development
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