Lectures included in this volume are: Operation SER (Service, Education Rehabilitation); Unions and Farm Labor; California Plan for the Education of Migrant Children; Housing Camps for Migrants; and California Legal Rural Assistance. These lectures have been chosen from those presented as part of the pre-service phase of a 2-year Teacher Corps…

This document contains research reports concerning: (1) The Decision Making Process of Iowa Young Adults, (2) Vocational Education and Occupational Aspirations of High School Students With No College Plans, (3) Differential Non-Income Occupational Valuations of Iowa Farm Boys, (4) Interrelationship of Home Environment and Employment, (5) Manpower…

This report on research studies was compiled in an attempt to analyze, summarize, and disseminate information on the current status of research and development activities in vocational, technical, and pratical arts education. In the five-state Upper Midwest Region (Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin) a priority list of mutual,…

Sixty-eight representatives of various types of health field organizations attended a conference held at the Medical and Dental School of Tufts University to examine needs and problems in health occupations training and to consider new program patterns. Speeches by experts in the health and education fields, an inspection tour of the Springfield…

This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Manpower Development and Training Program (MDTP) as conducted by the Vocational and Adult Education Department of the Lincoln, Nebraska Public Schools during its first three years of operation. The sample consisted of 389 MDTP students in the clerical, practical nursing, and dental assistant programs,…

This study was conducted to develop quantitative and qualitative productivity standards, work measures, and activity reports to facilitate effective budgeting for library staff in the State University of New York (SUNY) library system. The research methodology used by the study team involved a survey of 11 libraries of the 22 institutions in the…

The 23 essays in this collection (1) discuss the movement to provide careers for poor non-professionals as an economic and social reform, (2) describe new careers occupations in social welfare, education, the health services, corrections, and industry, and (3) offer guidelines for designing new careers occupations and for training nonprofessionals.

In 1965 Concerted Services in Training and Education (CSTE) began operation in three selected rural counties of New Mexico, Arkansas, and Minnesota with objectives of: (1) developing general operational patterns for alleviation and solution of occupational education problems, (2) identifying employment opportunities and occupational education…

The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of a cooperative arrangement between the New York State Education Department and the New York State Employment Service, undertaken to produce and disseminate up-to-date information about local entry occupations for use in the career guidance of students. In a sampling of high schools and…

General works (bibliographies, year books, directories, encyclopedias, periodicals), historical and descriptive surveys and biographical notes, international, national, and state organizations and movements, adult education methods and subject fields, theoretical aspects, service to special clientele groups (women, youth, immigrants, aborigines,…

A study was done to (1) determine how extensive is the need for vocational education for college graduates who must return for job-entry level course work (educational loopers), (2) determine the kinds of vocational course work the returning graduate desires, (3) investigate the reasons the college graduate has chosen to return to a college…

Problems, issues, and the potential of higher education were discussed at SREB's 26th Legislative Work Conference. Higher education's dilemma is that a steady state will bring increased pressures for change, not for operating on the basis of more of the same. Topics in the report include: highlights of a profile of higher education in the South,…

The possible futures to be faced by postsecondary education in Australia are commented on; the comments are stimulated by concern for a lack of long-range planning in that country. Three sections are included: one on the external factors likely to influence postsecondary education, such as demographic and economic constraints, changes in secondary…

Designed to be used as a classroom text, a book of readings, a reference, or a guide to rural development practitioners and decision makers, this book includes both general and sophisticated analyses relative to a comprehensive understanding of rural development fundamentals. Attempting to integrate the literature on micropolitan development into…

This paper focuses on changes in the occupational levels of black and white men in the decade between 1962 and 1973. For each race taken separately, and then for both in comparison, shifts are described in the mean levels and a dispersion of occupational socioeconomic status of men in the experienced civilian labor force. An attempt is made, it is…