For two consecutive years (1965-67), the Hartford, Connecticut ESEA Project 1 furnished over 1400 non-English-speaking pupils with "expanded services designed to provide a substantial portion of the school population with a functional grasp of the English language." This population represented an estimated six percent of Hartford's total…

To measure school achievements in spina bifida children, to relate these measures to certain variables, to obtain information on educational problems, and to study facets of cognition and its changes with age, 77 spina bifida children and 53 amputees (all aged 5 to 15) were tested. Sixty non-disabled children were at times used for controls. The…

An answer was sought to the question of whether there is a more precise way of placing freshmen college students in English into appropriate remedial class groups; current placements are contingent upon entrance test scores only. Subjects were selected from a certain group of remedial students who had been placed in the Developmental…

The business education teacher must thoroughly understand why and what he is doing in career education. A career education program can be viewed as consisting of five categories from which the teacher is to form a basic career education philosophy. (1) To develop in the student self-awareness and a positive attitude toward self, school, and work.…

This study analyzes Los Angeles City College (LACC) records for a six-semester period of students who took the Guidance Examination in fall 1970 and scored in the lowest quintile on both the vocabulary and reading sections of the examination. This score indicated that their reading level was at the eighth-grade level or lower. The students were…

This study attempted to investigate the effects of school experience on performance on visual perception tests involving line figures and forms. The subjects were 120 first grade students selected from two public schools in the same community. The experiment involved an Experimental Treatments X Age X Time of Testing factorial design. All subjects…

Replies to a questionnaire relating to development programs in 40 community colleges and technical institutes in North Carolina and Virginia are provided. The questions that comprised the questionnaire were: (1) Describe your procedure for determining the math and English proficiencies of entering freshmen; (2) Do you require for those students…

Two conference reports focus on career education programs for handicapped high school students. Described is a work study program for educable mentally retarded (EMR) senior high students with goals such as decreasing the incidence of school dropouts, improving basic work skills, teaching positive work attitudes, teaching money and time management…

A report to describe the status of a special education program is presented. The program provides special instruction and services for students in the six schools of Troy, Alabama. Participating students receive instruction in home economics and shop and take part in a sheltered job program. The thesis of the program was that all children have…

A description is given of all phases of the 1971-72 Job Placement Program at Middlexes County College, Edison, New Jersey. Primary emphasis is given to the program phase known as "Employment Preparation" which provided senior job seekers with specific job-search preparation prior to the Spring 1972 On-Campus Recruitment program in which…

This booklet contains suggestions for creating an effective, "custom-made" local unit of volunteers, using the educational and social action resources of the community for volunteer training. The suggestions are tailored to fit the flexible mode of operation of Church Women United in a wide variety of communities. The statements related…

This report contains an analysis of the Work Incentive Program (WIN) termination data collected and maintained by the Department of Labor, specifically the Office of Manpower Management Data Systems (OMMDS). WIN projects enrolled their first clients in October 1968, nearly 6,000 people. By the end of March 1970, there were approximately 150,000…

Papers presented at the conference focus on three concerns relating to heterogeneous-homogeneous student placement in special education classes: handicapped children, public schools, and teacher training programs. Child centered observations include: labeling children by their disabilities, non-categorical or non-homogeneous student placement of…

This publication contains assumptions, problems, and statement of the basic idea for 10 questions relating to career education. The questions concern the desirability, probability, and limitations of concepts dealing with: (1) exchange programs between business-industry-labor personnel and school personnel, (2) student field trips, (3) work…

The report describes a 4-year demonstration project conducted by the Arkansas Enterprises for the Blind to determine the feasibility of training blind persons to work as taxpayer service representatives for the Internal Revenue Service. During the period (1967-1971), 10 training classes were completed. Trainees were placed in job positions in 32…