Reasons for the failure of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962 to meet its major objective of alleviating skills shortages are recorded and analyzed. The lack of skills shortages was admitted to be the main reason for the shortcomings in performance, although the term "skills shortage" had yet to be defined and…

The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of the 1971 summer training program conducted for 19 vocational instructors beginning their first year in teaching without previous teaching experience and training in teacher education. Hired from business and industry because of their technical competence in their field, the program…

This final report discloses findings of a survey team composed of fifteen historians and social studies specialists on 1965 NDEA institutes in history. An attempt is made to identify the nature of a summer institute and how it differs from regular teacher education. Objectives include answering three questions: 1) What kind of teachers attended…

Covering the period of June 1975 to June 1976, the final year of a 3-year career education counseling project in the Corpus Christi schools, this report describes activities focused on implementing career education concepts into new project schools while maintaining and improving activities in the first- and second-year schools. Components of the…

A career-centered program in the Louisville, McComb, and Winona Municipal Separate School Districts, Mississippi, attempted to bridge the gap between the world of work and the school curriculum for students in grades 1-12. The following specific objectives were established: (1) To develop personal, social, economic and decisionmaking skills in all…

This third-party evaluation report of the BHQ (Baldwin-Whitehall, Highlands, and Quaker Valley) Career Education Project, a K-14 effort in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, focuses on student outcomes resulting from efforts at staff development, curriculum infusion, resource centers, and community involvement. Included in the report are (1)…

Description of the placement component of the Lincoln Career Education Project is contained in this report, covering the period of 1973-1976. Objectives, procedures followed, and project results and accomplishments are reported in detail. Results of the project included the establishment and refinement of the general concept of career education…

The purpose of the project evaluated in this third-party report was for the North Central Technical Institute in Wausau, Wisconsin, to provide career education to the adult population (including youth 16 years of age and over) in school and out of school, in the area served by the North Central Vocational, Technical and Adult Education District.…

This report presents a description of the Title I Elementary and Secondary Education Act program in New York State. The report describes the evaluation of programs in reading, mathematics and bilingual education. The project participants were 150,000 Upstate New York children and 150,000 New York City children. Among the findings of the report are…

This Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, Evaluation Report outlines the instructional programs provided for educationally deprived students in Colorado. Handicapped and bilingual students were also served by the program. A total of 1469 students from kindergarten through senior high participated in the program. Programs were…

Evaluation of the Westside Area Career Occupations Project (WACOP) focused on (1) examining what aspects of the Arizona career education effort had the most significant impact on students, and (2) measuring specific outcomes related to the students' knowledge about the world of work, using the Arizona Careers Test. System implementation and…

Describes the experiences of teachers participating in writing-across-the-curriculum workshops and the successful implementation of interdisciplinary teaching methods at La Salle University. Concludes that the program has not only improved the use of writing in all disciplines but has contributed to global transformations in teaching practices.…

The concept of "instructional leadership" springs from a desire to relate school administration to instruction, but it does little to suggest what the specific links between the two might be. It obscures the uncertainty and tension that is bound to arise from serious efforts to restructure the schools. (BJV)

British and U.S. preschool intervention projects are now reporting dramatic long-term follow-up findings that appear to vindicate the claim that preschool can serve as an "innoculation against failure," especially with disadvantaged children. However, important questions remain about the generalizability of these effects in other…

First proposed in the fall of l98l, Pittsburgh's Schenley High School Teacher Center opened in the fall of 1983 with a comprehensive visiting teachers continuing education program involving contact with both resident and replacement teachers. To ensure full realization of its potential, the center uses a databased program to monitor its own…