Maintains that preschool and kindergarten curricula should encourage experiential learning, and not just formal academic education. (BB)

The authors report on a study of 120 secondary schools and 893 related classrooms that compared instructional approaches used in vocational and nonvocational classes. Results suggest that vocational classes offer alternative approaches to instruction that differ from those employed in academic settings. (Author/CH)

Too many high school teachers and administrators overlook non-college-bound students' needs. To prevent the United States from becoming a two-class society, high schools should adopt a bifurcated administrative structure with two major curriculum-planning divisions: one to prepare students for college and another to prepare students for community…

Analysis of National Postsecondary Student Aid Study data shows that one-third of all postsecondary students are in vocational programs; vocational enrollments declined at public community colleges 1986-1989, but were stable overall due to increases at four-year and proprietary schools. The study showed the usefulness of cross-sectional data for…

Southern Regional Education Board's State Vocational Education Consortium developed a model for integrating vocational and academic education that includes at least three credits each in math and science; four English courses; and four credits in a vocational major and two in related fields. Eight sites implementing the model have narrowed gap…

Instead of departments, a team of English, social science, science, and math teachers plan and implement programs in four career clusters at Dauphin County (Pennsylvania) Technical School. (SK)

Tips for incorporating English and math in welding classes include selling the academic work as essential job-related skills and maintaining a balance between the academic and the technical content. (SK)

Continuing technological change means that students must learn that technology cannot exist in isolation. Technology education enables understanding of the interrelationships between the technologies and the social contexts in which they are used. (SK)

In a Maryland high school, physics and chemistry principles are integrated into welding and metals projects, enabling students to work on academic assignments and experiments simultaneously. (SK)

Views IQ test scores as measures of general intelligence that relate to the acquisition of knowledge in diverse settings. Discusses studies that support the assertion that IQ has an influence on a socially relevant outcome variable that is independent of its relationship to social status. (MMU)

A study designed to assess the impact of correctional education programs in Virginia on recidivism examined records of 3,000 inmates released 1979-1994. Findings suggest that completion of an educational program while incarcerated may be positively and directly related to post-release community adjustment. (Author/JOW)

Discusses the use of personal tutors to support nursing students. Considers the time implications of adopting an all-encompassing tutor role in the current climate of higher education. (SK)

Survey responses from 47 of 49 Illinois community colleges and interviews with 20 staff show that the predominant approach to academic-vocational integration is applied academics. Less evident are multidisciplinary courses, linked or cluster courses, and learning communities. Many barriers result from the long-standing separation of vocational and…

Suggests that the expansion of knowledge and its relevance to experience and society once belonged to civic professionals. Specialization in the academy replaced them with the power and the limitations of inward-looking disciplines. It is concluded that, drawing on both these traditions, educational innovation is called for now. (EV)

Explores Australian universities' responsibility to provide the foundational or core knowledge (as opposed to simply vocational knowledge) needed by students, and the nature of that foundational knowledge. (EV)