On June 9, 1987, a hearing was held for the purpose of receiving testimony about family preservation programs that aim to keep children out of foster care by strengthening troubled families. Testifying were program providers, a juvenile court judge, and families who have benefited from family preservation services. Testimony focused on the…

A study compared the barriers to employment facing handicapped persons in Israel and the United States. Five vocational rehabilitation centers (two in the United States and three in Israel) were examined. Each was studied in terms of the type of center, population served, goals, nature and scope of services provided, sources of income, staff and…

Results are presented from a study designed to identify (1) characteristics of teacher education programs in the United States concerned with preparing personnel for early childhood education, and (2) the procedures used to select students for these programs. In addition, program trends related to these aspects of teacher education programs were…

The FIPSE-funded Science and Self-Determination Project at the University of Colorado at Boulder (established through the American Indian Educational Opportunity Program) was threefold. The project was: (1) to provide a month-long summer science/math institute on the university campus for 35 Native American Secondary students from a 10-state…

Part of a series of instructor training modules on related subjects instruction for apprentices, this booklet introduces the concept of related subjects instruction. Covered in the module are the following topics: the nature and organization of apprenticeship programs (the definition of apprenticeship, the importance of apprenticeship, occupations…

A program for improving documentation at the systems division at Allen-Bradley is sketched in this paper. Following introductory material about starting the program, the paper outlines the two main projects that were involved: (1) a management study of the Allen-Bradley manual writing process, which addressed problems with the content and…

Home programs for young handicapped children have the potential for enhancing the partnership between home and school. In an effective home program the parent is viewed as the person most qualified to facilitate the child's development. This paper focuses on the philosophy of home programming and details some useful strategies which can be used by…

The stated purpose of this report "is to give the reader a recent definition of general education, a college president's persepctive of general education and high technology, and sources the reader can examine for curriculum planning." The definition of general education is a paragraph quoted from Cohen and Brawer's book "The American Community…

Acknowledging the value of peer evaluation in the classroom, this paper describes the peer evaluation system used in a basic speech communication course at an Ohio university. The first section of the paper defines peer evaluation and describes the situation at the university to provide some understanding of the context in which the system was…

Education and training of management personnel in developing nations have been patterned after the American system. Unfortunately, efforts at transplanting such knowledge has neglected the cultural nuances unique to the various nations, resulting in incomplete success. Intercultural communication barriers can be posed by such cultural features as…

This document written in Spanish describes a personalized reading program and discusses the results of its implementation. The focus of this approach to reading is based on the individual child and his feelings. This model personalizes the child's reading material in the classroom. In personalizing the reading material, the child's attitudes…

Primary purpose of the program, "Aztlan en Kansas: Asistencia Tecnologica", is to provide technical assistance to Mexican Americans in Kansas in developing leadership skills which could then be applied for the improvement of the whole community. The program utilized a Laubach model in that as a workshop was conducted, community leaders…

Many special programs for minorities have had problems in retaining students. These problems can be addressed in a comprehensive program on campus. This approach characterizes the Stevens Technical Enrichment Program (STEP) at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Minority enrollment there has increased from 3 in 1973 to 86 in 1978. These students,…

Where one of the parties is under 18, California law since November, 1970 has required premarital counseling before receipt of a marriage license. This article describes the program, established to meet this need based on a model of education about problems of everyday living. (Author)

The author discusses (1) his success in the development of a program of vocational agriculture with career education and (2) how the exploration of the world of work can be an exciting and profitable experience for both student and teacher. (BP)