This monograph details, in question-and-answer format, the rights of students and the responsibilities of guidance counselors under federal and Colorado state law. Prominent topics include: Confidentiality of student records, freedom of information, the boundaries separating the rights of students, the rights of parents, and the rights of school…

This document was designed to serve as a guide for coordinators of cooperative vocational education programs in the University of Hawaii community colleges. Areas covered include: (1) the purpose, definition, criteria for, and advantages of cooperative vocational education; (2) the role of the coordinator as it relates to legal responsibilities…

In this booklet the importance of parent education as a preventive strategy for child abuse is discussed. Many individual differences exist in the area of needs, strengths, and weaknesses related to effective child-rearing and parental competencies. Program goals for parent education would emphasize the following: (1) a primary concern for…

Industrial arts must consider its place in an environment which has changed in the past decade. It should be concerned with changes brought about by accelerating technological advances, increasing social problems, and the reappraisal of many personal values. Three important areas of thrust for industrial arts are (1) the study of industry, (2)…

This second of two volumes provides cost guidelines and cost estimation techniques for use by jurisdictions in assessing costs of their own ongoing or contemplated correctional program activities. (Volume I is a companion summary published as a separate document for use by criminal justice policy-makers in need of a reference to the policy issues…

A citizen-based, long-range goal-setting program for future growth and development is documented in this report. The program spanned over two years in time, involved over 1,100 local citizens, and produced goals and policy guidelines for both the short- and long-range future of the city. The components of the process consisted of staff and support…

As pharmacy seeks to attain professional recognition along with other professions within the health care system, it must seek to integrate the dissemination of drug knowledge along with its distribution functions and its educational system needs to produce pharmacists who can meet the drug information needs of society. (JMD)

The challenge to colleges of pharmacy is to assume responsibility for designing and implementing a sound system of continuing education for pharmacists to replace the fragmented programs that exist now. This involves commitments to provide sufficient status, financial support, and academic credits. (JMD)

Overview of two speeches to trade and industrial (T&I) teachers at the annual vocational convention, (1) urging them to build up leadership and to have faith in AVA's ability to work effectively with their concerns and (2) noting the need for common sense, more research, and more emphasis on human qualities in the use of competency based…

Discusses needs for better quality vocational agriculture teachers, suggesting appropriate focus for preservice and inservice programs. (HD)

Description of an Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) workshop aimed at giving a new, more positive direction to the preparation and supervision of student teachers. (HD)

In this time of legal decisions which call much professional practice into question, it is well to ask ourselves questions as to why we are the object of court concern and how our preparation is related to our difficulties. Several suggestions are presented for appropriate adjustments in university preparation. (Author)

Provides a brief history of the "community involvement movement" over the past 15 years and discusses methods for improving the program planning of the deployment and utilization of community resources. (Author/RK)

In an attempt to attract qualified secondary home economic teachers into the field of teacher education, the responsibilities and activities of the home economics teacher educator are described, the educational requirements are explained, and the supply and demand projections are presented according to geographic region. (BM)

In three major reports on higher education, some common problems emerged as recurrent themes: the absence of faculty responsibility for the curriculum as a whole, the lack of structure in baccalaureate programs, emphasis on specialization results in a tendency to downplay the humanities, thinking and problem solving skills are neglected. (MLW)