Schools can play a critical role in the lives of teenage parents. Educational counseling has encouraged some teenage mothers to finish high school. The success of this intervention depends on the teenager's former relationship with the educational system. Many schools make no effort to address the needs of this population. (VM)

Describes the improved learning environment at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School in South Carolina and gives credit to Principal Melvin Smoak. Discusses such topics as discipline policy, teacher evaluation, and remedial programs. States that, although more students are acquiring basic skills, the school has no resources to challenge the brightest…

Describes Idaho's comprehensive K-12 plan to develop the personal, educational, and occupatonal skills that all students need to profit from their educational experience. (JOW)

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities will begin testing a comprehensive project to reverse the low educational attainment of Hispanic students in Texas. The project aims to increase high-school graduation, raise college-going rate, increase graduation rate of college students, and raise transfer rates of community college…

A group of college presidents has decided to expand campus public-service programs by encouraging college students to tutor disadvantaged young people, mentoring fourth through ninth graders in danger of not graduating from high school. (MSE)

Consists of a compilation of sketches of each of the decades in this century, focusing on vocational education and work, especially in Wisconsin. Emphasizes legislation and world historical events that affected the course of vocational education. (CH)

California's Peninsula Academies train high-risk students academically and vocationally. Partnerships with employers provide hands-on training and summer jobs. The program's small school atmosphere helps motivate previously disaffected students. (SK)

Reviews forecasts about demographics and the labor force in the year 2000, predicting a skill shortage rather than a labor shortage, with more unqualified people competing for the very few low-skilled jobs. Underscores education's role in reducing functional illiteracy, dropout rates, and youth unemployment. (DMM)

Provides statistics on school failure and presents methods used to teach language and second language courses in Belgian primary schools. Included are the aims of language courses, the principles of instruction, and descriptions of specific instructional strategies employed. (JDH)

Outlines high school dropout programs developed through public/private partnerships that are successfully helping dropouts and at-risk students develop their potential. Also describes the educational system that corporate businesses have developed to educate employees in an effort to make up for deficiencies resulting from their education in the…

Discusses (1) public policy concerning the selection of Black superintendents; (2) attacks against public education programs designed according to public policy; (3) educational impact of particular public policies under Reagan; and (4) future requirements for progress--including changing the status quo, partially through political education, and…

Discusses general decline in commitment to and financial support for equal educational opportunity in last five years and effect on minority students. Analyzes financial considerations in college attendance, problems with "college persistence" assessment measures, college characteristics affecting minority student persistence, and…

Reports on a study that (1) examined the effectiveness of computer-based education in developing literacy and mathematics skills in young adults to enable them to secure unsubsidized employment and (2) compared motivation of CETA-funded students with those who sought training voluntarily. Discusses failures of CETA training projects and makes…

Presented are enrollment projections for primary and secondary school students in England through the 1980s and beyond in the light of information on the school population and births up to 1981 and of alternative forecasts of births in future years. Projections of the numbers leaving school are also discussed. (Author/IS)

Compares Indian and Chinese educational systems on bases of their channelling of students, school dropouts, and attempts at reform. Emphasizes the conflict of academic schooling and productivity in both nations. (JW)