The Texas Earth and Space Science (TXESS) Revolution was a 5-y teacher professional development project that aimed to increase teachers' content knowledge in Earth science and preparing them to teach a 12th-grade capstone Earth and Space Science course, which is new to the Texas curriculum. The National Science Foundation-supported project was…

In 1996, about 750 randomly selected 4th graders, a similar number of 8th graders, and nearly 1,000 12th graders from 19 Chicago-area schools took the Third International Mathematics and Science Survey test as a separate country. Results were impressive and reinforced the good reputation of First in the World Consortium schools, located mostly in…

As part of a larger program of a consortium of six rural Oregon counties (SIXCO), a study was conducted to select instruments which provided a measure of career decision-making skills and to utilize these instruments on populations of students who received varying types of guidance processes in their school programs. Of the twenty-nine instruments…

This document contains materials developed for and about the construction technologies tech prep program of the South-Western City Schools in Ohio. Part 1 begins with a map of the program, which begins with a construction technologies program in grades 11 and 12 that leads to entry-level employment or one of five 2-year programs at a community…

This document contains materials developed for and about the automotive diagnostic technologies tech prep program of the South-Western City Schools in Ohio. Part 1 begins with a map of the program, which begins with an automotive/diagnostic technologies program in grades 11 and 12 that leads to entry-level employment or a 2-year automotive…

This document contains materials developed for and about the computerized business technologies tech prep program of the South-Western City Schools in Ohio. Part 1 begins with a map of the program, which begins with a computerized business technologies program in grades 11 and 12 that leads to entry-level employment or one of two 2-year programs…

This document contains materials developed for and about the environmental technology tech prep program of the South-Western City Schools in Ohio. Part 1 begins with a map of the program, which begins with an environmental science technology program in grades 11 and 12 that leads to entry-level employment or a 2-year environmental technology…

This document contains materials developed for and about the multicompetencies health technologies tech prep program of the South-Western City Schools in Ohio. Part 1 begins with a map of the program, which begins with a health technologies core in grades 11 and 12 that leads to entry-level employment or one of four 2-year programs at a community…

This is the final report of a Kansas state project which had four purposes: (1) Involvement of teacher training institutions with the unified school districts' career education program in order to gather information needed to provide realistic experiences for inservice education of future career education teachers, (2) involve the community in…