This document presents a comprehensive overview of cooperative education programs in the San Mateo Community College District. There are three plans which provide regular work experience related to college studies and career goals. The Alternative Semester pattern allows two students to hold one full-time position by exchanging work and study…

A 27-member advisory committee was appointed in 1966 by the Governor of New Jersey to create a written plan that would assure comprehensive vocational rehabilitation services by 1975 for all handicapped people who could benefit from them. The state was divided into seven regions and seven regional committees identified major needs and barriers…

Some 1394 research studies from various African countries are annotated in this bibliography, which is divided into 37 country sections with a separate section (Africa General) for studies dealing with the continent as a whole, with geographical regions, or with groups of countries. The publications listed and summarized were published primarily…

An experiment in public education for regional planning in a five county area was undertaken by the Sacramento Regional Area Planning Commission jointly with the University of California Extension (Davis) and KCRA-TV; the purpose was to present for public scrutiny a set of preliminary goals. A series of television programs was combined with 160…

This document is a historical resume of adult education programs with church leaders sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Service of Iowa State University since the early 20th century. Supported by research, resident teaching and administrative leaders in the institution, the Extension Division has cooperated educationally with church leaders,…

The purpose of this field survey report is to present the actual operations of programs geared for disadvantaged residents of New York State and funded through Urban Education appropriations for 1968-1969. The descriptions attempt to provide a picture of how the programs are actually operating, the processes by which they were established, the…

The growth of senior level directors, coordinators, and supervisors in special education in Wisconsin is reviewed; also reviewed are the qualities of such personnel and the nature of the supervisory-administrative function. Guidelines delineate administrative, supervisory-consultative, and coordinative functions. The role and function of regional…

Provided are 19 presentations made to 200 participants in a conference on issues of mainstreaming, career education, and teacher education programs for urban handicapped children. Noted are four conference objectives such as improving communication within states between educational agencies and large city special education (SE) personnel.…

Information gathered from questionnaires, interviews, and on-site visitation is presented for 50 representative program sites in the United States at which work education projects are in operation. A summary of each program's history, organization, goals, student and faculty composition, work environment, and mode of operation is provided. Each…

County commissioners from Florida's fifteen most rural and fifteen most urban counties were compared in terms of their personal and social characteristics and the relative importance they attribute to selected content and clientele of Cooperative Extension Service programs. Association between these two comparisons was then assessed to determine…

Four types of activities were conducted during the year. First, workshops were held to train faculty to produce and use self-instructional materials. Second, professors working with the project produced materials and submitted them to the project data bank. Next, the materials submitted were validated in terms of student performance and, finally,…

The professional internship exchange program was designed to provide in-service vocational personnel development in cooperative vocational education. Ten new centers were established under this project. A total of 30 secondary high schools and community colleges throughout the State of Washington have participated in the three-year project.…

Educational change is too complex and important ever to be delegated entirely to federal agencies and to federally-funded R&D centers and regional laboratories. Alternative agencies can and do play a part in the larger scheme of research, development, dissemination, diffusion, and adoption of innovations in education. One such agency is the…

This manual was developed with two specific purposes in mind: (1) To present in some detail, information about cooperative education which should serve as a functional guide to those individuals who contemplate becoming a coordinator of cooperative education, and (2) To stimulate the development of more effective coordination techniques by…

Eighteen individuals representing eight social science disciplinary approaches, seven observers representing various educational positions, and eight staff members participated in an inquiry to discover how academic scholarship can be used to determine the understandings required in teaching about war and peace. Three substantive concepts --…