State policymakers will want to make clear the intent of a policy on choice when they write their legislative bills. The purpose for the policy will help parents, students, educators, and the general public understand their action and the reasons for the action. This study discusses 11 issues included in legislative bills and gives a brief summary…

This paper discusses public school-based child care facilities and the ways in which they benefit students, schools, communities, and children. It is argued that when there are child care centers in public high schools, teen-age parents whose children attend the facility are more likely to complete their education and less likely to become…

This document reports the findings of Project Respond, a program designed to develop a model for assessing and addressing risk to children in the St. Louis community. Section A concerns: (1) a definition of risk; (2) effects of profound sociological risk on children; (3) social and economic costs of sociological risk. In Section B, the Project…

This series of abstracts from the League for Innovation in the Community College and the Community College Leadership Program is published approximately bimonthly and distributed to the chief executive officer of every two-year college in the United States and Canada. Addressing a variety of topics of interest to community college administrators,…

This series of abstracts from the League for Innovation in the Community College and the Community College Leadership Program is published approximately bimonthly and distributed to the chief executive officer of every two-year college in the United States and Canada. Addressing a variety of topics of interest to community college administrators,…

During fiscal year 1990, Idaho's vocatioal-technical system conducted activities toward attainment of five major goals. To promote economic progress by meeting employer needs for trained workers (goal 1) the technical system strengthened interaction between employers and educators; focused on vocational training to support industries and new…

This overview of trends and issues in Missouri higher education displays information through a series of tables, charts and figures using data primarily from the Missouri Statistical Summary 1989-1990. Some charts compare current data with earlier (10- to 20-year-old) data. Topics covered include the following: student preparation; student…

Four essays are designed to provide perspective and dimension to the Stout Data Analysis and to the Business and Education Survey. The essayists who interpret the Stout and survey data represent the viewpoints of (1) business (David Horn), (2) a researcher in vocational education (Orville Nelson), (3) a vocational educator (Albert Pitts), and (4)…

A project was undertaken to develop and publish a national plan for marketing education at pre-baccalaureate levels. During the project, the author of the study reviewed literature pertaining to the past, present, and future of business, marketing education, marketing, and vocational education. In addition, he conducted telephone conversations and…

This report explores the effects of federal, state, and local fiscal cutbacks and of federal and state categorical program consolidation and deregulation on the capacity of state, intermediate, and local education agencies to provide instructional improvement services to schools in California, Nevada, and Utah. The planning process and impact of…

The resource book by the British Columbia Ministry of Education explains methods that may help in teaching language arts to native Indian students in grades K-7. The book, an attempt to enhance the development of native students' language skills within the regular classroom, indicates how to incorporate into the regular curriculum materials by and…

Second in a series, the monograph presents detailed evaluation data on the cultural instruction component of the Indian Education Act Part A program and assesses its impact and relevancy for staff, faculty, students, parents, and Indian community members. Of 74 sampled projects employing culturally related instruction, 96% used multitribal topics…

A section on technological delivery systems, presented as part of the second Australian National Workshop on Distance Education (Perth, 1983), contains four papers on using technological resources to provide educational services to persons in isolated locations. The first paper, by Don Kennedy, covers the use of satellite broadcasting of course…

This self-instructional module, one of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, provides preservice and inservice educational materials for teacher-coordinators supervising on-the-job training. The two goals stated for this module are to know the procedure for job placement and to be prepared to instruct students for job…

The handbook for tutors in the Highline Indian Tutoring Program (Seattle, Washington) provides guidelines for high school and college student tutors, to help them develop a personal, helping relationship with, and provide academic assistance in math and reading to, Native American elementary students. The introduction gives general guidelines for…