A Columbia, Missouri, high school publishes its menus four weeks in advance and offers students a choice between two lunch lines. Providing students with alternatives resulted in a ten percent increase in lunch participation. A sample 4-week menu cycle is provided. (Author)

The in-service effort described here was an Institute Program sponsored under Title IV, section 404, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to assist those school personnel faced with the myriad of problems occasioned by desegregation-integration activity. (Author/CB)

Methodologies are presented for improving distributive education programs through assessment of student's occupational choices, parental aspirations and local manpower needs within the context of national manpower needs and employment opportunities. (CH)

The restructuring of the Job Corps and its integration with other manpower programs is described. (BH)

Several trends which offer greater viability for basic business education include improved content, increased enrollments, improved sequential curriculum, a systems approach, improved textbooks, promotion of consumer education, newer approaches, more flexibility in learning structure, improved teacher preparation, and strengthened ties with the…

Educational programs for preparing hired farm labor are needed for retraining displaced farm workers for the skilled jobs of mechanized operations. (GB)

Guidelines for acquiring and developing land laboratories are presented as well as some advantages of such facilities. (GB)

A two-year pilot program was conducted in two high schools in Kentucky presenting an interdisciplinary approach in vocational education. (Author)