Included in these bulletins are descriptive analyses of various New Careers Training programs, issues related to Civil Service requirements, health, training models, rehabilitation, veterans' problems, and colleges as user agencies. Outlined are various steps for developing new careers jobs and for giving technical assistance. Solutions carried…

This description of "coaching" in a 4-year federally funded special manpower demonstration project, JOBS NOW, is intended especially for program administrators, industrial personnel, and guidance counselors. The project was designed to train and employ previously unemployable, disadvantaged, young black adults, provide manpower systems…

If the experiences of the nineteen sixties have proved anything about formal education they have forcibly indicated that the present system of education has become obsolete. For Mankind II we must create Education II; an education based on new assumptions, new goals, new programs and new attitudes on the part of both lay and professional…

This report attempts to show that there are effective programs, schools, and administrators, and many teachers who serve disadvantaged students well year in year out. The first part of the report focuses on such exemplary teachers through a survey of 59 teachers as reported by their principals. Characteristics of that model discussed relate to…

Variables expected to be associated with academic achievement were examined in a sample (generally exceeding 2500) from eight secondary schools in Baymon Norte, Puerto Rico. Concern was whether variables associated with academic achievement differed by sex or by socioeconomic status (SES). Multivariate analyses of variance with three factors of…

Courses and facilities of the Saskatchewan Newstart program are discussed as they pertain to human resource development. In addition, materials available for conducting 17 courses related to human resource development are listed, briefly annotated, and the price for each is given. The Saskatchewan Newstart Social Invention Centre is discussed…

This article discusses preschool education and the research conducted in that field on various relevant topics in an effort to establish recommendations and programs. Cognitive development is the main issue and is seen as a product of maturation as well as of a broad base of experience which results from interaction between the mind and the…

A learning center project to "improve and expand the educational and employment opportunities for all residents in the Portland, Maine, Model Cities target area who are 16 years of age and older and who have not reached the grade eight education level" is described. The five-phase project proposes to: "(1) design an experimental…

This project was designed to implement an exemplary model for a total approach to non-graded vocational programs in four separate centers in Florida. Specific Objectives were to: (1) improve student attitudes toward the environment, (2) improve academic achievement of students, (3) develop students' occupational skills, and (4) improve the…

The material in this document is divided into three parts relating to the three debate propositions that: (1) a voucher system should be established as the primary means of financing elementary and secondary education in the United States, (2) governmental financial support for all public elementary and secondary education in the United States…

The 12 presentations and discussions of a two-day conference on the cost of day care, held in May 1971 and attended by experts on the costs, economics, and financial aspects of day care, are provided in this report. The presentations are as follows: "Techniques of Analyzing Costs and Cost-Benefit Ratios for Day Care" by Delroy Cornick; "Strategy…

Two studies of the effects of "Sesame Street" are presented. In the first case, the study tested two hypotheses: (1) "Sesame Street" can prepare poverty children for first grade; and (2) "Sesame Street" can narrow the achievement gap between the poor and the middle-class child. Twenty-four pairs of poverty children…

In this volume are papers derived from the Harvard University Faculty Seminar on the Coleman Report. The Carnegie Corporation provided funds to support a faculty seminar for the academic year 1966-1967. Out of this seminar developed this present collection of articles written by a number of outstanding educators bearing on the main themes of the…

All over America today Human Resources Development (HRD) Departments and/or Agencies are emerging. HRD is an adult and continuing educational process designed to help alleviate some of the adult problems of today with the hope that the future will be more rewarding for all. Today, changes in social and technological conditions are proceeding at…

A study to determine the impact of adult basic education programs on the upward mobility of disadvantaged workers is presented. The paper industry was chosen for case analysis because of the nature of the upgrading problems, the vast adjustments required by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the fact that these ABE programs have been operational…