This training manual, one in a series of eight, has been developed to help state and local supervisors and teacher educators in trade and industrial education to conduct a workshop on sex equity, as it relates to their future programs, for vocational education teachers and administrators in the trade and industrial service area. The workshop's…

This collection contains descriptions of 10 projects to prepare personnel to provide vocational education to special needs students. Included in each project report are an overview of project goals and activities, strategies found to be effective, problems encountered during the project, major resources required to operate the program, and the…

This report on the impact of the Vocational Education ACT (VEA) on special needs populations in vocational education examines the structure of the VEA, the state and local contexts in which the law is implemented, and the problems of serving special populations that the mechanisms are attempting to address. Outlined first are the goals and role of…

This curriculum guide for training preschool teachers in postsecondary institutions is based on the competency-based program developed by North Carolina's Department of Community Colleges. The curriculum is organized so that the individual can exit either at the completion of four quarters of study with a diploma or at the completion of the total…

This paper sketches major programs for adult education in Sweden, the Soviet Union, France, and England and considers several policy implications for adult education in the United States. The first section examines the reforms in Swedish public education designed to facilitate social equality, with special emphasis on the study circle. A…

Covering the Bi-regional Conference on the Education of Hispanics which was held February 14-16, 1980, in San Antonio, Texas, this text is a verbatim report of selected papers presented. Presentations in the post-secondary sessions deal with the Hispanic variable in higher education (five papers); program and professional development and…

A project examined the effectiveness of the Youth Career Development (YCD) Demonstration in facilitating the school-to-work transition of high school seniors. The evaluation involved a 1755-student test group and a 1684-student control group from 30 sites funded by six delivery agents (National Urban League, National Council of Negro Women, SER…

This annual report of the Rehabilitation Services Administration for Fiscal 1980 consists of five sections. The first section, devoted to program operations, includes information on the basic vocational rehabilitation program, services to the blind, rehabilitation facilities, and three specific programs. Described in section 2 are such program…

This first of the two-part proceedings of an Australian Conference on Youth schooling and unemployment contains the texts of 26 research papers. Focus of the papers is on educational practices and specific problems in educational research. Topics covered in individual reports include student perceptions of specific courses; quantification in case…

Designed for use in bilingual education programs, this industrial arts safety guide presents guidelines for developing a student safety program and three sections of shop safety practices in both English and Chinese. Safety program format, safety committees, safety inspection, and student accident investigation are discussed in the section on…

Designed for use in bilingual education programs, this industrial arts safety guide presents guidelines for developing a student safety program and three sections of shop safety practices in both English and Ilokano. Safety program format, safety committees, safety inspection, and student accident investigation are discussed in the section on…

Designed for use in bilingual education programs, this industrial arts safety guide presents guidelines for developing a student safety program and three sections of shop safety practice in both English and Japanese. Safety program format, safety committees, safety inspection, and student accident investigation are discussed in the section on…

Designed for use in bilingual education programs, this industrial arts safety guide presents guidelines for developing a student safety program and three sections of shop safety practices in both English and Korean. Safety program format, safety committees, safety inspection, and student accident investigation are discussed in the section on…

This publication includes six action papers presented at the Denver, Colorado, seminar on June 5-7, 1978. Three disability categories highlighted in the seminar are the topics of the papers: cancer, cardiac illness, and epilepsy. There are two papers devoted to each category of disability, one focusing on action for eliminating barriers to…

A study compared three New Jersey vocational rehabilitation programs serving schizophrenic clients to identify program strengths and successes in vocationally rehabilitating schizophrenic clients. The effective program elements were then related to the variables found to have a significant impact on rehabilitation outcome according to previous…