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Download full textHORNER, JAMES T.; PETERSON, EVERETT E. – 1965
A MAJOR PROBLEM OF AMERICAN YOUTH TODAY IS THAT OF QUALIFYING FOR AND HOLDING A JOB. GENERAL EDUCATION IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE GREAT MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO MUST OPERATE FARMS, MACHINES, SHOPS, AND OFFICES AND PROVIDE SERVICES. YOUTH FACE INCREASED JOB COMPETITION BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED SIZE OF THE 14- TO 24-YEAR AGE GROUP. UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG YOUNG…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Colleges, Community Colleges, Dropouts
BEAL, GEORGE M.; AND OTHERS – 1966
FROM 1960 THROUGH 1964, 24 OF IOWA'S 209 SCHOOL DISTRICTS HELD SCHOOL BOND ISSUE ELECTIONS IN WHICH PART OF THE ISSUE WAS ASSIGNED FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PURPOSES. INTERVIEWS WITH 20 OF THE 24 SUPERINTENDENTS YIELDED INFORMATION FOR A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF (1) THE PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PORTION OF THE TOTAL BOND…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Bond Issues, Community Attitudes, Community Colleges
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1966
THE FIRST SECTION OF THIS EVALUATION REPORT PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING PROJECT ACTIVITIES--(1) OPERATION AND SERVICES, (2) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION, (3) EVALUATION, (4) MAJOR PROBLEMS, (5) IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 205 OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, (6) COORDINATION WITH COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS, (7)…
Descriptors: Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Annual Reports, Compensatory Education
CHANDLER, HAROLD R. – 1967
PROJECT ACCENT, A COOPERATIVE VENTURE OF SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY COLLEGE AND 10 OF ITS SURROUNDING HIGH SCHOOLS, IS A PROGRAM OF COUNSELING AND INSTRUCTION IN AUTO MECHANICS, APPLIED ELECTRONICS, AND OFFICE OCCUPATIONS TRAINING IN GRADES 11 THROUGH 14. IN THE PAST, THE ATTRITION RATE IN THESE THREE PROGRAMS HAS BEEN DISCOURAGING. OF THE THOUSANDS…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Florida Career Education Demonstration Consortium, Tallahassee. – 1977
Three Florida counties (Broward, Orange, and Pinellas) formed a consortium for demonstrating the most effective methods and techniques in career education at the secondary level. A career education model was developed which was designed to provide (1) career awareness and exploration experiences for all students, 9-12; (2) alternative salable…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Consortia
Lynn, James J.; Woltz, Dan – 1979
The Portable Assisted Study Sequence (P.A.S.S.) Program, a pilot high school program designed to support California migrant student graduation through the use of competency based credits and portable learning packets, more than met its goals and objectives in 1978-79. Evaluation was by questionnaire, to which 16% of the surveyed P.A.S.S. students…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Bilingual Education, Correspondence Study, Credits
Hess, Fritz; And Others – 1979
This paper discusses alternative schools that serve students with special needs. The evolution of alternative education is outlined and several kinds of alternatives are discussed: schools for the gifted, the vocationally-oriented, and the disruptive, and multiethnic and basic skills programs. Alternative schools for problem students appear to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Curriculum Development, Discipline
Cantu, Norma E. – 1979
To spur English teachers to change their attitudes and methods in dealing with nonnative English speaking students, this autobiographical account by a Chicana woman describes how English teachers caused her to feel insecurity, frustration, and embarrassment about her use of language. Among the problems the author describes are her suffering at…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Dropout Prevention, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
MCDOWELL, SOPHIA F. – 1967
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE THE WILLINGNESS OF NEGRO HIGH SCHOOL AGE YOUTH TO ASSOCIATE WITH WHITES. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM QUESTIONNAIRES DISTRIBUTED TO 471 NEGRO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AND 111 NEGRO DROPOUTS FROM SOUTHERN AND BORDER STATES. THE STUDY INVESTIGATED SUCH VARIABLES AS THE YOUTHS' SEX, SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, EDUCATIONAL STATUS…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Students, Dropouts, Educational Experience
Lovell, Frank I., Jr. – 1968
This study analyzes the possible relationships of real property assessment practices in Mississippi school districts to quality education as measured by (1) expenditures per pupil, (2) teachers' salaries, (3) teachers' professional training, (4) teachers' professional experience, (5) library expenditures per pupil, (6) teacher-pupil ratio, (7)…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Correlation, Curriculum, Dropouts
Holiman, Marjorie – 1977
In essay form, the director of the developmental education program at Cochise College (Arizona) describes her struggle to be personally and professionally effective with Chicano students from Spanish-speaking homes in a racially and culturally prejudiced community. Appended are a description of the program and a list of course offerings, as well…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Alley, William E.; Gibson, Terry A. – 1977
Research was conducted to improve applicant selection procedures in the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AFROTC) scholarship program. The objectives were to document predictive relationships, if any, between student aptitude measures, academic major, institutional selectivity, and eventual completion of the scholarship program. The…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, College Students
Crawford, Alan N. – 1975
The Aides to Career Education (ACE) Program, a Los Angeles Vocational Amendments Part A project, employs instructional aides to help disadvantaged vocational education students develop positive attitudes toward education and employment, more cooperative behavior, pride in their course work, efficiency in completing assigned tasks, and improved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Shea, Brent; Rehberg, Richard A. – 1973
The relationship between pre-existing differences in student attitudes, values, personality, and length of school career is examined in this research report. A sample of 2,790 students who in 1967 were enrolled as freshmen in seven urban and suburban, public and parochial school systems in southern New York completed a questionnaire during their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Dropout Characteristics, Educational Attitudes
Gran, James R. – 1975
The four-year followup study (the fifth and last of such four-year evaluations of graduates) aimed at pinpointing the program's benefits to the graduates in the educational social/personal, and financial areas. Thirty-two of the 41 graduates responded to the mailed questionnaire, which elicited demographic, occupational, educational, financial,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Age, Dropouts
