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…

This document presents a model for preschool-primary teacher education. The first part indicates the rationale for the development and evaluation of teacher education programs emphasizing recruitment and selection procedures, program expectations, and teacher needs. The second part presents program content in relation to certification and…

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)

Nine reasons that training programs do not succeed (for example, limited training resources, reasons for training unclear, critical nontraining factors ignored, management support is lacking, role of supervisor not recognized, little preparation or followup) and five training success factors (value, focus, power, mass, duration) are presented. (CT)

Describes the development and implementation of an inservice program in reading instruction for practicing secondary school teachers. (HOD)

Although school administrators hold a key position in educational improvement, strategies designed to help in the development of their knowledge and skills have not been fully examined. A review of research on administrator inservice offers a research agenda that may be followed to expand the knowledge base on this issue. (DF)

Provides a critical review of a current television series in health education. (Editor/RK)

Addresses itself to the problem of managing disruptive student behavior in the public classroom. Three major models for handling behavior are identified: the disciplinarian approach, the behavior modification approach and the therapist approach. (Editor/RK)

Explores the avowed goals of academic programs which have been termed Black Studies" and examines their content, methods, resources, and assessment processes. (RJ)

Reports data from the Purdue Consumer Education Study which provide a picture of the organization and scope of the national consumer education effort outside the schools. (Editor)

While the study, based on usable questionnaire returns from 225 counselor education programs, provides evidence of many efforts toward program differentiation, there remains a substantial lack of uniformity in preparation background of elementary school counselors graduating from preparation programs across the country. (Author)

Provides an overview of recent research related to the teaching of business data processing. It identifies the kind of instructional questions asked, the general types of research methodology used, and comments about the research conclusions. (CT)