In order to identify minority attitudes toward occupational education, a survey form was developed and administered to a stratified random sample of 85 high school students, 85 community college students, and 80 community residents in the college's primarily Black service area. In 17 tables, the authors note the composition of the group by sex,…

This master plan was drafted in order to provide guidelines for the continuous development of the Metropolitan Community Colleges over the next 10 years. In order to reach consensus, the various chapters were reviewed by college personnel, trustees, and consultants during the planning process, which culminated in a final two-day planning charrette…

Vocational and technical education can provide economic mobility for individuals as well as economic development for communities. However, the literature and the results of this study indicate that the persons who could profit most from vocational education programs, those in lower status groups, know very little about such programs. A five…

There are three major reasons for recruiting school volunteers: they extend the number of people available to help teach; they bring skills to their tasks that professional educators do not have; they experience positive effects themselves simply in the process of volunteering. The wisest recruitment policy would recruit volunteers having the…

The interim evaluation of the Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc. (AEL), a community-based alternative curriculum for high school seniors, was not intended for general readers and its terminology is for that reason quite technical. The report's first section briefly describes the EBCE…

The first two sections of the final evaluation report of the Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc. (AEL), a community-based alternative curriculum for high school seniors, briefly describe the EBCE summative and formative evaluation designs and the student populations studied. Section 3…

This report provides an overview of the federally-funded early childhood research activities of fiscal year 1975. In order to assess the directions in which federal research programs are moving, ongoing research projects are analyzed both within individual agencies and within the federal government as a whole. The first chapter reviews the…

During fiscal year 1975, the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Program (FMCCP) served 19,455 migrant children through its Early Childhood Learning Program, Language Arts Tutorial Program, and Learn and Earn Program. The Early Childhood Learning Program provided 6,361 three, four, and five year olds with physical and dental examinations,…

The data for this report was taken from the student Request for Permission to Take a Course Elsewhere Form, which must include the reason for taking the course at another institution. Towson State College, Baltimore Community College, and the Catonsville Community College were the main choices of institutions which attracted the students to their…

This doctoral dissertation examines alternatives for public-school religious education which stress spiritual values but do not conflict with legal restrictions. The study is divided into four parts. Part one is an historical survey of religious education in public schools that includes an interpretation of the legal restrictions and the…

As the second volume in a four-volume series on the Oklahoma Indian Education Needs Assessment Project, this report presents the development and results of the needs assessment phase. The needs assessment questionnaire is described as involving 18 goal statements, 43 educational need statements, and an open-ended category for additional goals and…

The article focuses on where and how to prompt the political process to respond to the demands of the millions of citizens engaged or wishing to participate in lifelong learning. As in other kinds of issues, there are four major ways to influence policy: legislative, administrative, judicial, or electoral. Students and instructors in the wide…

Studies on both sides of the Atlantic reveal that the processes by which educational policy is made is highly political. In the 1960's education seemed particularly vulnerable to a realignment of forces because it has traditionally had some elements of localism and a degree of separateness as a governmental service based on the nature of its…

This state of the art review and research strategy paper identifies some of the educational, political and social issues involved in bilingual-bicultural (bl/bc) education for Spanish speaking/surnamed (ss/s) children and makes recommendations for more refined research. Aspects of bl/bc education for ss/s children included in the paper are: (1)…

This manual presents the Project Head Start program goals and performance standards in the areas of education, health and nutrition services, social services, and parent involvement. A short discussion of general Head Start goals, performance standard development, implementation, and enforcement is included. Each performance standard is…