Advance placement policies are identified in this booklet designed to aid persons who are potentially qualified by prior training or experience for advance placement in programs leading to graduation in nursing or practical nursing. The information was gathered from all 82 programs approved by the state board for 1975. The trend toward improving…

Students of advanced life science courses at Beverly Hills High School, California, are able to approximate a wide variety of life process experiments through use of computer simulations. Students are taught to use the BASIC language and to execute programs on the Hewlett-Packard 2000 Access series. Computer programs are used to enhance…

This document is the first in a series that incorporates the findings of a project initiated to find solutions to the problems of planning, designing, constructing, and utilizing facilities to house career education. In the form of a loose framework of concepts intended to stimulate thought and discussion about learning, school, and the right to…

This report was planned to facilitate the task of college admissions officers of American educational institutions in the evaluation of foreign credentials. The educational systems of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand are examined in depth and include discussions of each country's educational history and educational…

This study was conducted to: (1) evaluate the Occupational Upgrading Project (OUP) and the Model Neighborhood High School Equivalency (HSE) Project's first year of operation, and (2) create baseline data from which future and more conclusive evaluation can be undertaken. Data were gathered by conducting open-ended interviews with the…

This paper presents data on the racial segregation in public elementary schools in 60 cities for the 1967-68 school year. Periodic racial-ethnic surveys of public schools by the Office for Civil Rights were authorized under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. A wide variation was found among school districts in the fundamental demographic…

The annotated bibliography provides abstracts of 30 research and conference reports and program proposals, and of eight journal articles, all published since 1966, of guidance, counseling, placement, and followup in vocational education. The citations listed were selected from the printout of a computer-assisted search of Research in Education…

The Bronx Community College entering class in September 1974 is described in terms of high school averages (general, English, mathematics, foreign language) and of placements into precollege-level English, reading, and mathematics courses. The actual programs of the students placed, but not registered, in these remedial courses are examined. A…

Presented by the North Carolina State Board of Education are policies and regulations (1974-75) governing programs for crippled, educable and trainable mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, gifted and talented, hearing impaired, homebound, hospitalized, learning disabled, multihandicapped, speech and language impaired, and visually impaired…

Administrators of 166 California school districts were questioned regarding transition programs (mandated by legislative and court actions) for students previously classified as educable mentally retarded (EMR). Detailed program descriptions were obtained from the 10 administrators interviewed, while information from 156 districts was obtained…

In a highly complex occupational structure with a great deal of mobility of men among jobs, the process of matching men to jobs is by no means automatic, but determined by complex mechanisms that may produce discrepancies between jobs and men--discrepancies that are a likely source of negative job attitudes. This paper focuses on the mechanisms…

Discussed is phase 3 of a longitudinal research study evaluating Oregon's work-study programs for educable retarded secondary school students along the following dimensions: student characteristics, curriculum content and school experiences, work placement, instructional objectives of 26 work coordinators and evaluative instruments of short-term…

This report is a survey of the volume and nature of requests for service to the voluntary and local public member agencies at the Child Welfare League of America. The study focuses on the objectives, content, and outcome of services to children and families receiving them. Ninety-three percent of the agencies eligible to participate in the survey…

The document examined the trend over the last decade of an increase in the number and variety of programs which affect, or are open to, the Alaska Native (Eskimos, Aleuts, and other Indians). The reasons for the trend were reported as (1) the new Federal programs and increases in funding through the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Public Health…

A study was made, during 1965-68, of the development and current operation of programs of agricultural education and manpower development in Yugoslavia. Data were also gathered on occupational patterns of graduates, occupational migration, off-job satisfaction and dissatisfaction, hiring plans of agricultural firms, and manpower planning. The rise…