An increasing number of college-age youth are philosophically and behavioristically separated from the traditional middle class and its values. The nonstudent generally has withdrawn from formal education professing disdain for the academic experience and its stifling effects, but is nevertheless attracted to the university as a source of cultural…

In studies of what teaching styles are effective for particular types of students, it was found that (1) students having a great need for affiliation performed better in classes taught by friendly teachers, while students needing little affiliation performed better in classes taught by more impersonal teachers. (2) A student's need for achievement…

The present study attempts to find the variables in the fifth grade which discriminate between dropouts and non-dropouts and to test the hypothesis that data about a student's school achievement from the fifth to seventh grades will yield a significant increase in predictable variance. This study makes use of a data bank, collected especially for…

This document presents an evaluation of the 1973-74 ESEA Title 1 funded Issaquah Re-entry Program, providing continuing educational opportunities for divergent youth who had dropped out of regular secondary schools in their area. Program objectives consisted of specifications of problems to be overcome and their possible solutions. Among…

An annual report (1971-72) of New Mexico's State Department of Education, Division of Indian Education, this document presents data pertaining to the 20 school districts receiving Johnson O'Malley (JOM) funds. Data is included on the total district enrollment, Indian student enrollment, Indian employees, what JOM funds were used for, and special…

Information relative to Indian residents of Washoe County, Nevada, has been developed to provide an analysis of educational and employment needs. Population figures are presented by age and sex for 3 basic Indian residence groups in the county. Statistics are presented in tabular form for Indian student enrollment in area schools, income level of…

Workers between the ages of 22 and 64 who had completed less than 3 years of college accounted for 52.1 million of the 60.8 million adults in the civilian labor force in 1963. A representative sample of this group was surveyed to determine the extent of their education and whether they had participated in any formal occupational training programs…

Twenty-nine annotated bibliographies on vocational-technical education and vocational guidance are presented in this report. They are divided into five sections which provide information on trade and industrial education, the disadvantaged child, work experience programs, the dropout, and vocational guidance. The annotations contain information…

A continuation school is a guidance and counseling-oriented institution which concerns itself with the motivation of unmotivated students, while also providing a highly academic program for selected students. The study discussed here, focuses on two approaches being tried with students who cannot succeed in regular school programs: (1) the…

The alliance of private industry and the schools has produced many excellent job-oriented education programs for the potential school dropout, the hard-core unemployed, and the underemployed. However, the majority of educators and businessmen throughout the country probably are not aware of the variety of cooperative training ventures that have…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the education that Spanish American students received from the Scottsbluff High School, Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Information was collected from 50 former students from the years 1965 and 1968 on their education, present status and suggested school improvements. Data were collected by direct and indirect…

This report presents empirical data in support of the behavioral, demand-oriented theory of Ph.D. production. A close examination of the Ph.D. curricula of the English, Economics, and Chemistry departments at Berkeley, chosen as representative of the extremes of departmental behavior, demonstrates that requirements do differ substantially and in a…

Preliminary to a larger research project on Mexican American attitudes, this report focused on the extent to which feelings of alienation are present in the barrios of 5 eastern New Mexico population centers. The feelings of alienation were analyzed by the degree of powerlessness, normlessness, self-estrangement, and isolation expressed or…

The traditional approach to education and many new alternative approaches have failed to serve the needs of students or to prevent students from dropping out. Aware of the many emerging experiments to keep educational opportunities alive for restless students, the authors propose a complete design, drawing on the resources of local school…

This document summarizes information about attrition, graduation, and graduation with honors at Hollins and other College Research Center (CRC) member colleges; calls attention to the fact that increasing percentages of entering freshmen are saying that the chances of their transferring to another college are "very good"; examines the…