This booklet is designed to help consumers understand and manage credit. It is suitable for personal use by adults or for classroom use in junior high through adult consumer education classes. The booklet is organized in two parts. The first part explains consumer credit: what it is, pros and cons, cost of credit, establishing credit, types of…

The first part of this workbook reviews and advocates articulation between high school cooperative education programs and vocational programs in higher education. It begins by defining some of the most common terms used to describe articulation, such as "tech prep" and "2+2", and for the implementation of articulation…

The monograph provides a systematic explication of the underlying standards and principles that have been developed to help adult learners articulate what they know and can do, to clarify their claims to creditable achievement, to help assessors improve the reliability of assessment, and to save assessor time. Ten academic and administrative…

In response to state guidelines which require senior institutions to provide two-year colleges with information on transfer students' academic performance, this report describes the procedures developed by James Madison University (JMU), in Virginia, to share information with the two-year colleges and presents results of a study of the academic…

This student handbook was compiled for high school students interested in New York City's Kingsborough Community College's College Now Program, a collaborative effort begun in 1984 to offer high school students an opportunity to take college-level courses, enhance their desire to go to college, and ease their transition from high school to…

A study examined the effect that increased high school graduation requirements are having on Colorado vocational enrollments and explored products and models for educators in school districts to use in minimizing any such adverse effects on enrollment. The study entailed a literature review, a survey of state high school science and mathematics…

A review and analysis of demographic trends in the Los Rios Community College District (LRCCD) is presented, along with a discussion of the effects that changes in students' age, sex, and ethnicity have on enrollments, student contact hours, day/evening programs, and credit load. Following introductory comments on the use of the trend analysis for…

Statewide data were gathered to determine the extent of the relationship between business and industry and Kansas's community college system during the 1985-86 school year. Analyses of the data indicated that: (1) the community college system served 20,175 employees of 425 businesses in the state with 731 courses and 351 non-credit services…

Every year since the 1969-1970 school year, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) has published a statistical report on Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States. This year's publication contains the core school, enrollment, and staffing data of the NCEA historical file. In addition, a special feature of this…

Descriptive statistics are presented on those students in Florida's State University System (SUS) who were previously enrolled in one of the state's 28 public community colleges. A series of tables present fall term data for 1979 through 1981, including information on students' sex, age, and race; SUS enrollment rate of community college students;…

Descriptive statistics are presented on those students in Florida's State University System (SUS) who were previously enrolled in one of the state's 28 public community colleges. A series of tables present fall term data for 1981 through 1983, including information on: students' sex, age, and race; SUS enrollment rate of community college…

This handbook provides guidelines for organizing a math equivalency credit program and for establishing criteria for awarding math credit for math instruction given in a vocational program. The first two sections discuss the issue of awarding math credit for instruction obtained in the vocational classroom and how to use the guide. Addressed in…

These proceedings contain the reports of almost 100 speeches, panel discussions, and workshops. The papers were presented on a variety of issues, including marketing research ethics, lifeline banking, information and the consumer, financial management, evaluating consumer education literature, consuming units around the world, the consumer and…

Historical data (since 1968-69) and current data on schools are presented and their significance and implications discussed. The data include national population, birth rate, and age trends; enrollment trends in public and private schools; and enrollment trends in private schools by religious affiliation. Catholic school statistics, gathered from…

Although the amount of federal aid available directly to secondary schools is small, cutbacks in federal aid can have a significant impact on secondary education because several direct aid programs receiving major funding from federal sources affect secondary education indirectly. All education is also affected by federal tax deductions for state…