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Burlingame, Martin – 1979
The finding that turnover rates for school superintendents are highest in small districts has been reflected in a number of studies. To further examine the finding, a survey in Illinois used a stratified random sample of 100 school districts, 32 of which had 499 or less students. With 1974-75 as a base year, the average years served by…
Descriptors: Administrators, Board of Education Policy, Career Change, Case Studies
Hobbs, Daryl J.; Hobbs, Vicki M. – 1979
Administrators, counselors, university faculty, and dropouts met initially to discuss the dropout problem and to design a questionnaire which was administered to 270 dropouts from secondary schools in 5 Missouri Ozark school districts and was designed primarily to determine the perceived need or desire for additional vocational or academic…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Counseling Services, Counselor Attitudes, Dropout Attitudes
Marshall, Ray, Ed. – 1977
The papers in this volume are concerned with rural development, with emphasis on the problems of low-income groups. Stephen McDonald explores economic factors in farm outmigration. Virgil Christian, Jr. and Adamantios Pepelasis discuss the extent and importance of economies of size in agriculture. Thomas Till analyzes the nature and extent of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Agriculture, Economic Development, Economic Factors
Platero, Dillon; And Others – 1978
Educational consultants, town residents, Navajo tribal chapters and councils, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Navajo Division of Education, and local public school districts in Navajo, New Mexico, worked together to design an effective vocational program for an unskilled labor force sparsely settled within a large geographic area. The concept of…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Career Guidance, Community Schools
Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1954
Four major topics were discussed at the conference: application of information theory to testing; recent advances in psychometric methods; evaluating group interaction; and new developments in the education of abler students. Papers delivered were: Multiple Assignment of Persons to Jobs, by Paul S. Dwyer; New Light on Test Strategy from Decision…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration, Advanced Placement Programs, Analysis of Variance
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1966
THIS REPORT PRESENTS THE QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DIMENSIONS OF THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT PROGRAMS FOR 1965. FROM AUGUST 1962, WHEN TRAINING UNDER THE MANPOWER ACT BEGAN, THROUGH DECEMBER 1965, MORE THAN 10,000 INSTITUTIONAL, ON-THE-JOB, AND EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS WERE APPROVED TO SERVE OVER 625,000 PEOPLE. THE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annual Reports, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Klein, William; And Others – 1968
Based upon material drawn from experimental programs at Howard University Institute for Youth Studies (1964-67), this manual is intended for those wishing to train workers as nonprofessionals in the human services (health, education, mental health, recreation, child care, research, and community organization) and is designed to be used with SP 002…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, Guidelines, Guides, Human Services
Howe, Harold, II – 1968
The dedication speech of the John F. Kennedy by the United States Commissioner of Education gives two principles which guide federal efforts in providing special help for educational problems common to all regions and in setting priorities for federal investment. Five priorities for federal financial support of programs for the handicapped are…
Descriptors: Building Design, Educational Needs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Programs
Elson, Jo Ann, Comp. – 1965
This volume contains abstracts of the 374 technical reports issued by the Personnel Research Laboratory at Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas, from January 1954 through December 1965. They cover studies in selection, classification, and utilization of Air Force personnel; systematizing information flow in support of personnel planning; methods of…
Descriptors: Ability, Abstracts, Academic Education, Attitudes
New York City Human Resources Administration, NY. – 1968
Described briefly are the various antipoverty programs of New York City's Human Resources Administration. This new city agency coordinates programs in manpower and career development, community development, social services, youth services, addiction services, and the Office of Education Liaison. (NH)
Descriptors: Career Planning, Community Development, Day Care, Dropout Programs
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1977
This report on adult education in the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries is primarily intended for policymakers but is also designed for use by professional adult educators and others concerned in developing the full potential of adult education as a service to the individual and society. Content is in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Agency Role, Disadvantaged
Geurin, Virginia; And Others – 1977
To determine how well rural youths were adjusting to modern society, a study on educational and occupational aspirations of male high school seniors from two counties in Southwest Arkansas was begun in 1965 and completed in 1972. A major finding in the first stage was that 70% of the 165 seniors (121 Whites, 44 Blacks) overaspired for their…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Comparative Analysis
English, Thomas W. – 1977
Focusing on systems and approaches to providing career guidance services rather than specific techniques, this guide is divided into eight chapters. Chapters 1-4 describe the state of the art of career guidance, including discussion of theory and prior research, theories of vocational development, career guidance concepts and practices, and career…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Young, Bruce – 1975
The study described the development of the New England Farm Workers' Council, Inc., and documented significant interactions among selected elements of the Puerto Rican migrant farm labor system in the Connecticut Valley. These elements were the migrant farmworker community, the farm labor employers, and agencies of the federal government and of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Trends
Peterson, Mike; Calnimptewa, Gerald – 1978
The Fort Yuma Reservation of the Quechan Tribe is located on 9,246 acres in the southwest corner of California in Imperial County and the southeast corner of Arizona in Yuma County. Historical records indicate the Quechans have inhabited the area since approximately 800 A.D. The 1974 tribal rolls show a population of 1,687. The unemployment rate…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Agricultural Production, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
