The critical shortage of child care personnel trained to work with children from infancy through adolescence, calls for the creation of training programs at the subprofessional level. Intended for the day care and child welfare agency personnel, teachers, and others interested in training child care workers, this publication offers guidelines for…

This project was designed to develop and test unique curricula that demonstrate means of circumventing the customary training program reliance on reading and thus eliminate an artificial barrier to the training and employment of a large portion of the population. A number of specialized educational techniques and equipment were used in the…

Last in a series of three reports prepared to present the results of a project with the proposal title, An Integrated, Longitudinal Study of Practical Nursing, this report is based on data obtained through 45 cooperating practical nursing programs in Illinois and Iowa. Information was obtained from school records, through interviews with students…

This guide focuses attention on the need to improve industrial relations, both present and future. It attempts to persuade managers to devote more of their thinking and negotiating skills to reconciling the differences between their company's and its employees' interests. The guide also aims at encouraging companies to prepare for the industrial…

The College Adapter Program (CAP) is a program to train inner-city young men and women with high potential for post-secondary technical training. These young men and women either have dropped out of high school, or have been insufficiently prepared in high school for further educational training. The Administration monograph is a statement of…

This directory contains basic occupational information about 100 career opportunities in business, industry, and the professions in Great Britain. Entry-level employment qualifications, brief job descriptions, salary ranges, employment projections, and resource addresses are provided for each career. Educational and training requirements are…

In developing job descriptions and curriculum for an occupational therapy program, the U. S. Department of Labor's occupational analysis and job structuring procedure was adapted by project staff with the assistance of the Ohio Bureau of Employment Service and the U. S. Department of Labor, Occupational Analysis Division. Six teams, each…

This bulletin lists salary guide and fringe benefit data for noncertified personnel in 155 of New Jersey's 604 school districts. The data provided in this bulletin are grouped according to (1) office personnel and attendance personnel, (2) maintenance and operations personnel, (3) transportation personnel, and (4) cafeteria personnel. Each section…

The result of a project effort, this 45-unit curriculum was designed for use in training bituminous coal surface mine personnel in conducting strip mining operations more economically, with good health and safety practices, for environmental control. Containing 1-hour instructional units, the courses can be taught either three hours a night one…

Unlike many other industries where factory walls can hide the number of Negroes employed, the trucking industry's racial composition is largely open to public view. This study concerns the racial employment practices of interstate common and contract carriers, the for-hire segment of the motor trucking industry, in the driver and other job…

This study, conducted in response to the requirements of Wisconsin's State Advisory Council for Vocational Education as delineated in the Vocational Amendments of 1968, focuses specifically on the impact of Federal vocational education funds on State health occupations education programs. The six chapters deal respectively with: (1) the…

This book is concerned with the potential of the city as a place for learning. Discovery of the city is facilitated by a catalogue of 70 alphabetically arranged categories made up of (1) people (28 entries, ranging from butcher to psychologist); (2) places (29 entries, from city Hall to zoo); and (3) processes (13) entries from candymaking to…

Twenty-one appendices to the final report of "A Comparative Study of Proprietary and Non-Proprietary Vocational Training Programs" comprise this volume. The appendices are as follows: (A) Eligible Training Programs; (B) Student Questionnaire; (C) Administrator's Guide; (D) Alumni Questionnaire; (E) Interview Record Form; (F) Introductory…

In order to help vocational agriculture teachers develop competencies needed in giving instruction in off-farm agricultural occupations, 10 teachers were selected from Mississippi schools to help develop training programs, to conduct a home community survey, and to engage in a work experience program. After completion of their training, each…

A manual intended to help fire departments and Civil Defense organizations train people to support regular fire forces during a national emergency is presented. It contains 11 chapters: Introduction, Modern Weapons and Radioactive Fallout, Role of Fire Service in Civil Defense, Local Fire Department Organization, Role of Support Assistants in…