A survey of undergraduates at Scarborough College (Canada) shows that students withdraw because jobs become available and not because of educational costs. Lessening of commitment to a college education is also a factor. (MSE)

Interventions aimed at community college administrators, instructors, and counselors were shown to have a positive effect on academic year completion rates of vocational students when compared to nontreatment colleges. Treatments included a goal setting procedure, training in personalized systematic instruction, and training in counseling…

Describes the community college as a dynamic, mobile, and evolving institution. Cites ten societal needs and higher education's role in fulfilling them. Enumerates the instructional, quasi-instructional, and facilitating functions of the community college and advocates providing expanded services to high school dropouts and graduates who do not…

Describes two Tanzanian reform programs: Education for Self-Reliance and Decentralization. The first supports programs to make education relevant to rural life, correct elitist biases, and improve students' attitudes toward rural living. The second, already instituted in primary and adult education, seeks to promote community participation in…

Compares the attitudes of newcomers to rural areas from cities with those of rural newcomers and rural residents on several growth and development issues. The research suggests that rural newcomers may be more likely to function as advocates of change in a local situation than former urbanites. (Author/CT)

Descriptive data from a questionnaire completed by 1610 freshmen at a community college were used to identify potential dropouts. High school average, curriculum, reasons for going to college, certainty of occupational objectives, parental attitudes toward college, and college rating were significantly related to intention to persist. (RC)

This article discusses how the available models for describing the school-closing process are not applicable to large cities. Determinants of the school-closing process in St. Louis, Missouri, are analyzed. (BE)

Problems in the Nigerian Universal Primary Education scheme including a high dropout rate and early formal school termination indicate that career education should be built into the program. A sequence for and advantages of introducing career education into primary and secondary schools are outlined. (JMF)

Explains four rules for the care and guidance of children until age six so that they may develop and retain curiosity, imagination, and inquisitiveness, and have greater potential for accomplishment and enjoyment of life. Describes benefits when such care is given and negative effects when it is withheld. (SB)

Focuses on ways that British schools, reflecting the social patterns of the larger society, act to crystallize the disharmony between White Britons and immigrant West Indians. Discusses discrimination in class placement and in employment. (Author/GC)

In a question-and-answer format Henry H. Krevor, Executive Director of the Appalachian Regional Commission, reports on the present status of the commission and the region and comments on prospects for the future. (Author/DS)

Although an increasing number of minority students are entering engineering schools, the attrition rate for this group is considerably higher than for majority students. Attempts to deal with this problem are discussed, including remedial programs, recruiting and counseling, and seeking federal support. (JMF)

At the fiftieth anniversary of Epsilon Pi Tau, the author discusses strengths and weaknesses of industrial arts education: student access and program coverage, declining birthrate and therefore enrollment, high dropout rate, teacher shortage, and relationship between vocational education and subject matter uncertainty. Offers some suggestions for…

Depicts the hostile social, political, and economic environment in which racial and linguistic minorities now live. Demonstrates how educators can become advocates for reform. Educators must be willing to reconfigure public education, redefine their relationship to the community, create radical curricula, and make explicit their moral and social…

Uses data from the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey to examine effects of mother's divorce/separation or widowhood on Malaysian adolescents' school participation. Children (ages 15-19) of divorced or separated (but not widowed) mothers were at greater risk of leaving school than those in other family situations, regardless of individual…