This guide is designed to help Minnesota high school students in their educational planning by describing the policies of colleges and universities in Minnesota regarding college credit for Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in high school. The AP policies of most Minnesota institutions of higher learning are represented in this guide.…

Placement can play a pivotal role in supplying administrators with employment data and evaluations to guide long-range educational planning. (Author)

Placement officers must become specialists in the labor market. College placement officers must play a more active role in shaping the development of the nation's human resources and also in the development of their effective utilization. (Author)

Authors feel the accelerated program has been a factor in attracting gifted young people into medicine. (Author)

Reports on experiment utilizing various sample combinations of tests' results from student's personnel record for placing entering college freshmen in proper mathematics sequence. (RP)

A client centered placement approach for handicapped people is proposed as an alternative to the traditional selective placement method. The client centered placement is based on client responsibility and counselor direction and requires the counselor to have an unrealistic but optimistic attitude that the client will get a suitable job.…

Urges freshmen placement examinations for efficient matching of student abilities with course requirements. (IR)

A full scale, one year experiment shows how the computer can be utilized to sort out the best possibilities for student interviews in placement. Reactions concerning the project were favorable from both students and staff. (Author)

The campus interview is perceived quite differently by students (prospective employees) and recruiters (future employers), as demonstrated by the survey reported in this article. (Author)

The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) funds schools located on 63 reservations in 23 states across the nation. Of the 183 schools, 59 are Bureau operated and 124 are tribally controlled. One-hundred and sixteen schools provide instructional programs, 55 provide instructional as well as boarding services and 12 peripheral dormitories provide only…

Section 1008.30 (formerly 240.117), Florida Statutes, requires the State Board of Education to develop and implement a common placement testing program to assess the basic computation and communication skills of students who intend to enter a degree program at any public community college or state university. Every year the State provides reports…

California's approximately 500 continuation high schools are estimated to serve more than 115,000 California high school students each year--a number that approaches almost 10 percent of all high school students and as many as one of every seven high school seniors. Continuation schools are, however, more racially and ethnically concentrated than…

"JOBSTART" is an alternative education and training program designed to improve the economic prospects of young, disadvantaged high school dropouts by increasing educational attainment and developing occupational skills. The program has four main components: (1) basic academic skills instruction with a focus on GED (General Educational…

The purpose of this ex post facto investigation was to determine the characteristics of and need for developmental education in the college applicant pool in 2006. Demographic data and COMPASS placement test results were gathered for the 1,079 applicants in 2006 who had complete records. These data were considered in the aggregate and in subsets…