THE PROBLEM OF THE INCREASINGLY LARGE NUMBERS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL BEFORE GRADUATION WAS PRESENTED. SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSION GROUPS AT THE WORKSHOP AIMED AT PRESENTING THE PLIGHT OF THE DROPOUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF AWAKENING AND MOBILIZING SOCIAL, CIVIC, POLITICAL, BUSINESS, AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN AN EFFORT TO ASSIST YOUTH…

MOST CHILDREN WHO ENTER MADISON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ARE BELOW THEIR GRADE LEVELS IN READING AND LANGUAGE SKILLS. THE 1962-63 CORE PROGRAM WAS OFFERED TO SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS WHO WERE PERFORMING AT APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR BELOW GRADE LEVEL IN BASIC SKILL AREAS. THEY RECEIVED ALL INSTRUCTION IN REQUIRED ACADEMIC SUBJECT AREAS IN THE…

The Regional Interstate Planning Project (RIPP) is composed of representatives from ten state departments of education who meet periodically to discuss topical educational issues of general concern. RIPP member states include Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. This pariticular booklet reports…

Experimental instructional projects and educational programs generated by teachers at the Big Ten universities are described in this annual report. The purpose is to exchange information among college teachers, administrators, and educational researchers about ways to improve the conditions for learning. Most of the reports focus on changes in a…

Instead of an on-site evaluation visit to the central administration as part of the process of reaffirmation of accreditation of the university, the accreditation agency held a seminar in which the university was represented by selected delegates and the commission by its chief administrative officers. Work that had already been done on a…

The Iowa-UPSTEP program appears to be a highly successful teacher education program. Current students feel relatively positive about their experiences and post graduates seem to be highly competent teachers. The program is a four-year, clinically-oriented science teacher preparation program providing undergraduates with early opportunities to deal…

Resources in Education (RIE) is a monthly abstract journal which announces (catalogs, indexes, abstracts) documents of interest to the educational community (including researchers, teachers, students, school board members, school administrators, counselors, etc.). Each issue announces approximately 1,500 documents and provides indexes by Subject,…

The activities of the Center for Instructional Development at Appalachian State University for 1977-78 are reported. The Center is responsible for instructional and faculty development throughout the institution and works on curriculum development and design, as well as the planning and implementing of professional growth activities for faculty.…

The effect of changing patterns of postsecondary education for nursing and the subsequent development of open curricula and external degree programs in nursing are examined in these conference papers. The following papers were presented: "Pressures on Higher Education Are Changing Post-Secondary Education," by Robert H. Kroepsch;…

A study was conducted to examine the contemporary differences in the response of black and white wives to factors that play a determining role in the decision of a wife to seek paid employment. Data, in the form of husbands' responses to interviews, were collected from a national sample of husband-wife families who resided in the continental…

This document describes the job opportunities forecast system which provides estimates of total job openings expected to be available in the Washington State Labor market annually through 1985. (The forecast has been keyed to occupational skills consistent with educational programs in the state. This edition of the forecast has been expanded to…

A pilot study was conducted to investigate the relationship between preferred incentives for participation in curriculum projects and the change orientation of teachers. The subjects were 96 teachers from a Northern New England community. The "Teacher Opinion Survey" on preferred incentives was found to have a test-retest reliability of .98 and…

The major purpose of this project was to further develop, expand, diffuse, demonstrate, and evaluate an educational program which provides an experience-based career education (EBCE) component at the secondary level in three Florida school districts and one postsecondary site. These four components, acting as a consortium, were extensions of…

A study was conducted to identify the issues, barriers, and needs related to providing successful secondary level vocational education to secondary school-aged migrant students. Study procedures utilized the Delphi Technique with a 100 percent sample of local vocational and migrant administrators in all southeastern school systems in which migrant…

This report is a case study of a technical evaluation assistance project in each of four states: Alabama, California, Colorado, and Maine. (The project activities in each state included the following: becoming acquainted with the vocational education delivery system and methods of evaluation; identifying problems associated with the evaluation…