The response of the University of Minnesota (UM) to minority education is addressed in this document, which contains three papers and the proceedings of the First Annual Minority Student Personnel Workshop at UM. Among the general areas of concern identified by the school's Office for Minority and Special Student Affairs (OMSSA) are the following:…

Critical areas of undergraduate education are discussed, and creative suggestions for maintaining excellence in Pennsylvania education are offered by the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE) at the University of Pennsylvania. Specific topics include: the curriculum, advising, teaching, residential life, and admissions. The…

This scope and sequence guide for vocational home economics programs in Iowa discusses the most important dimensions of the program and describes the general purposes of programs along with factors that affect them, both in general and for Iowa specifically. The introductory chapter of the guide sets the context and the mission and also includes a…

A project was conducted in Bergen County, New Jersey, to develop a technical high school for students who are gifted and talented in science, mathematics, and the technologies. Through a hands-on approach to learning, the curricular disciplines were integrated to bring life and meaning to abstract principles and theories and to give students an…

This guide was designed to facilitate the sharing of successful program models, curricula, and educational strategies among community-based groups and to help make the education, philanthropic, and corporate communities more aware of the wealth of resources available from Hispanic community-based organizations. The guide includes brief profiles of…

This curriculum guide is intended for use in teaching an instructional unit in leadership through the Future Farmers of American (FFA). The guide is geared toward college freshmen. Addressed in the individual lessons of the instructional unit are the following topics: the benefits of participation in the FFA, the history and development of the…

The advent of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) has not been favorable to community-based organizations (CBOs) serving unemployed young people. The overall decline in the amount of money available for employment training is one reason for the reduction in services, but it is not the sole reason. The transition to the new act itself is also…

Implicated in contributing to the problems youth today face in trying to claim an education, an informed active participation in the social order, dominant discourses of desire in education foreclose formal, critical analysis of social structures that construct, police, entreat, and deny desire. Looking at the ways in which desire is encoded in…

Pre-service programs for secondary teachers have traditionally involved method subjects, where participants are inducted into the curriculum practices of two disciplinary or subject areas. In 2003, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, enrolled a small group of fourteen pre-service teachers into an innovative Graduate Diploma of Secondary…

The program is a terminal course in chemistry for 9-12 grade students who are non-science majors, low achievers, and/or American Indians. Its objectives include to provide a systematic and practical overview of the discipline of chemistry; to change student behavior through this knowledge; to develop social responsibility, scientific attitude, and…

This report summarizes the findings of a follow-up study of Oregon's high school class of 1976 regarding their activities and perceptions after leaving their formal high school training. Focus is primarily on the responses and impressions of former vocational (career cluster) students; comparisons with the responses of general college preparatory…

Intended for use by those attempting to initiate or improve competency-based instruction in adult vocational education programs, this directory contains demographic and descriptive information on sixty selected courses and programs operating in public education, other government agencies, business, industry, and labor. Introductory material…

This guide on marketing and distributive education cooperative education is designed to assist the beginning teacher-coordinator with the resource material he/she will need and to provide experienced teacher-coordinators and administrators with a ready reference on current procedures and practices. General information contained in chapter 1…

Educational development in Burma is discussed as part of a series surveying UNESCO's involvement in educational cooperation with developing nations. Several themes recur throughout the monograph--Burma's insistence on retaining independence in matters of educational policy, stress on developing an educational system cognizant with cultural values…

These units of instructional materials and teaching aids are the first three of a series of 10 designed for use in metropolitan agriculture/horticulture programs for students in grades 9 and 10. Covered in the unit on agricultural occupations are the school program, agriculture and society, and careers in agriculture. Orientation to supervised…