Written for administrators, learning disabilities (LD) teachers, psychologists, and parents, the guide consists of a plan for providing programs and services for LD children (K-12). LD children are assigned to resource rooms for a portion of each school day with the goal of remediation and return to the educational mainstream. Outlined are five…

Two methods for aiding workers to realize success in their job search process were investigated in the present study. These approaches involved the use of computerized systems for matching workers and employers for interviews that supposedly were mutually satisfying. The two approaches are identified as first generation and second generation…

Summarized in monograph form are proceedings of a 2-day inter-regional training conference held in 1974 on modern dimensions of epilepsy. It is explained that a major conference purpose was to elicit participant suggestions regarding goals and program development, educational and research needs, and funding guidelines. Included are the orientation…

This handbook explains the procedures and rationale for the study of articulation between high school and community college career programs. After citing a thumbnail history of articulation practices and laws, the goals and methodology of creating an articulation survey are explained. The survey target group, questionnaire format, questions to be…

Focusing on efforts at human resource development among unemployed and/or disadvantaged Nova Scotia adults (especially those in economically depressed areas), the present annual report reviews Nova Scotia NewStart activities begun in 1968 and carried over into 1969, as well as those designed and initiated in 1969 or planned for initiation in 1970.…

Operated on a voluntary, decentralized basis at 215 military bases (58 overseas), the TRANSITION Program is designed to provide maximum guidance and training or educational opportunities for servicemen during their last six months of duty to prepare them for productive reentry into civilian life. Public and private placement services are also…

Covering 5,891 trainees in a nationwide sample of 324 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) classes, this longitudinal study concentrated on how trainee attitudes and motives relate to program completion versus dropping out, and to subsequent job histories. Wage rate, extent or duration of employment, completion, dropout status (for…

Three stages mark the development of relevance in testing: relevance to the educational program, relevance to the individual student's past accomplishments, and relevance to the student's future accomplishments. If the College Entrance Examination Board should have to follow paths such as these, it has ahead of it the enormous job of transforming…

A program was established at the Margaret Sheehy School in South Merced, California, to provide social experiences and learning situations aimed at improving the communication skills of the largely Mexican American and Negro student body (grades 1-4). The Special Language Class developed in the program is outlined in this teaching guide. The guide…

Presently, college and university recruitment efforts are heavily concentrated towards attracting culturally different youth in general and black students in particular, for enrollment in a two year or four year degree oriented program. What happens to the student once he is on campus, however, appears to be of considerably less concern. It has…

The Arizona State Employment Service (ASES) provides placement, testing, counseling, and manpower information services to Arizona's Indian labor force. Special services to Indians include Indian branch offices, special communications systems, an Indian job development program, and manpower resources development assistance. Two manpower resources…

The author has examined the prospects for successful application of career education principles to the problems of youth unemployment in the United States, the relationship of occupationally relevant content in curricula to school dropout and student alienation, the location and control of youth occupational preparation programs, and the…

There is no immigration problems in Greece today. On the contrary, the country's economic development makes it necessary for Greek workers who have emigrated temporarily to return and be integrated into the production system. The educational policy for emigrant workers' children involves: (1) ensuring that children who have settled abroad know…

This study was designed to determine the effects of teacher transfer for the purpose of achieving faculty racial balance on alienation and self-ideal discrepancy. Surveys were made of senior high school teachers from all senior high schools (grades 10-12) of Dade County, Miami, Florida, in February and June of 1970, involving 1,123 and 1,190…

This book sets out to put the many questions raised by the selection of urban teachers into a meaningful context, and to suggest some answers. The thesis of this book is that, as quickly as possible, the process by which urban teachers are selected must be converted to a contemporary merit and fitness system. The ability to understand and reach…