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…

This is a report of students who entered as freshmen in the fall of 1956 and the fall of 1957, and of students enrolled at all undergraduate levels during the 1956-57 academic year at 20 institutions of higher education in the U.S. The report discusses: (1) applications, admissions, and registration; (2) admitted applicants who failed to register…

Recent studies indicate that Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs are reaching more students and the cost per enrolled has declined, but statistics are not available to reveal the quality of the programs. In four states, ABE has made reported, tested differences in adult reading ability. In New York and Missouri, students gained an average of…

Georgia's Coordinated Vocational and Academic Education (CVAE) Program is a statewide program administered with considerable local autonomy in approximately 125 high schools around the state. It serves underachieving students who are potential dropouts, providing them with career education through CVAE classes, interlocking career-related…

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors in attrition over which Southwestern College might exercise some control and through which experimentation could be conducted toward changing the patterns of attrition. Data were gathered from college files on every student who withdrew from one or more classes for the fall 1971 semester. A…

This report is an independent evaluation of the College Adapter Program, a project that provides New York City out-of-school students and selected manpower trainees with a special program on enrichment services as a means of qualifying them for college entrance. The evaluation concluded that the program is successful, analyzes the reasons for its…

This pamphlet lists the occupations discussed in the "Occupational Outlook Handbook" for which a high school education is preferred, but not essential. Occupational information is presented in a three-column format which includes job title, highlights of job qualifications and training, and employment opportunities and trends through 1985.…