Designed to prepare students (grades 11 and 12) for employment entry through a cooperative work/study program, this course guide assists the teacher-coordinator by providing instructional objectives, suggested performance tasks, sample assessment measures, and activities for each unit of instruction. The instruction covers two broad areas:…

The need for bilingual bicultural school library materials and services for schools with bilingual programs and limited English speaking students was investigated in the state of Illinois. The data were collected by means of questionnaires sent to bilingual program coordinators and school librarians at 140 schools throughout the state. Targeted…

Due to increased interest in adult learning, the state of transition in which many between ages sixteen and sixty-five find themselves, and the large number of adults lacking requisite job skills, there is an institutional planning emphasis on programs with adults in mind. Planners must be aware of barriers preventing adults' participation in…

The Programmatic College of Commerce and Industry at Northwestern University is described as an innovative approach to the study of business as an institution. The program consists of weekly, noncredit, dinner-lecture-discussion meetings attended by students, faculty, and business people. Discussions center on problems facing business, on the…

The intent of this manual is to provide counselors with essential background information about alcohol abuse among blacks and with a practical, workable model for organizing and structuring a training program. A general discussion of black self-awareness in relation to alcohol abuse is presented. An approach to counseling and serving the black…

The purpose of this conference was to bring together leaders of public and private schools to discuss matters of mutual concern and interest. The morning session was concerned with the topic "The Child, the Teacher, the Machine" and focused on educational technology with emphasis on computer-aided instruction. The morning workshops dealt…

A study was conducted to examine federally assisted employment and training programs in the Tidewater, Virginia, area during fiscal year 1977. The General Accounting Office found forty-four programs with similar goals attempting to assist virtually the same people. These were authorized through sixteen separate legislative authorities, creating a…

This document investigates the Wayne State Experimental Project in the Region 9 Teaching Center of Detroit (WEXPO-9) which is designed as a cooperative program to better prepare inner city teachers by introducing them to student teaching (in the inner city) in their junior year; to assess the influence of preparation in concepts of teaching and…

A project involving thirty-nine eleventh grade students was undertaken at a senior high school to plan and initiate a community-based action learning program to provide students with a meaningful cooperative school-community work learning experience. Specific curriculum requirements were met through a combination of independent study,…

Covering the period January 1 through June 30, 1975, this second semi-annual report on the Applied Fishery Science Program operative at Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska presents information regarding program progress and Alaska Native students involved in science education. Specifically, this report details: Planning and Coordination…

This publication offers guidelines for establishing and operating advisory committees for career education, elementary grades through community college. Each of the four chapters included in this guide contains key concepts and step-by-step checklists. Focusing on the functions of the advisory committee, chapter 1 discusses the following topics:…

This report describes and evaluates The World Is Your Museum Program -- its objectives and information from an Interim Evaluation Report -- and provides other evaluative information from teachers, students, and the project director. The program involved 300 students from eight public and two non-public elementary (K-5) art classes in Washington,…

The study described in the report constructed a task analysis for the adult vocational education coordinators in Wisconsin in the areas of business education, general education, home economics, agriculture, health, trade, and industry. The survey instrument contained two parts: the first gathered factual and statistical information about the…

There is a growing recognition in India of the significant role nonformal adult education can play in achieving national and individual developmental objectives. Traditional formal education with its greatest benefits for a small elitist group will not contribute significantly toward the resolution of major socioeconomic problems. Adult education…

The three-day conference focused on giving clearer direction and visibility to community resources utilization in preparing persons for employment. It sought to clarify the scope of cooperative education as a plan for delivering occupational skills and to examine selected issues which would serve to stimulate expansion, improve practices, and…