The program's long-range purpose was to enhance the Native American student's self esteem, and hence improve his ability to take advantage of opportunities in education and career development. Specific objectives were to develop in Native American students a strong sense of their heritage and culture; to operate an informational resource center…

Identifies four microeconomic concepts students should learn before entering the study of intermediate macroeconomics. Included are relative prices, general versus partial equilibrium, constrained optimization, and the nature of production concepts. Recommends making intermediate microeconomics a prerequisite for intermediate macroeconomics. (MJP)

Questions the merit of workplace utility as a criteria for general and occupational curricula, focusing on community colleges and the current trend toward Tech Prep curricula. Urges general education advocates to uphold the integrity of a broadly useful humanities education, while actively promoting vocational education for a well-prepared…

In this article, Jonathan Cohen argues that the goals of education need to be reframed to prioritize not only academic learning, but also social, emotional, and ethical competencies. Surveying the current state of research in the fields of social-emotional education, character education, and school-based mental health in the United States, Cohen…

This annual report to the Governor of Maryland provides an abbreviated account of the activities of the state's community colleges, including institutional plans and objectives. Section I explains the mission and goals of the State Board for Community Colleges (SBCC) and for the institutions themselves, focusing on missions related to students,…

Presents a framework for including the optimal level of national saving and its disposition between investment in the domestic capital stock and the accumulation of overseas assets, in intermediate macroeconomics teaching. Uses the IS-LM model to enhance students' comprehension of the issues involved in the optimal level of saving. (MJP)

A third-party evaluation of the Texas coordinated vocational-academic education (CVAE) program was conducted in 1984-85 to determine the effectiveness of CVAE as a vocational program for meeting the needs of secondary students who are unsuccessful in traditional academic programs. A project advisory committee was established, a review of…

What are community colleges doing to help their students analyze social, economic, environmental, and political issues; become good citizens; live in a rapidly changing world; understand their heritage; discover their potentialities; refine their interests and goals; and achieve their optimum personal growth? These objectives provide a frame of…

The basic problem in training teachers (teaching them what makes social institutions tick and how to relate this knowledge to present and future needs of children) has not been solved by teacher training institutions. The author's plan for a one-year social sciences training program emphasizing the project approach may provide a solution. Its…

The processes of learning about and exploring different vocations should begin in elementary school. Elementary school teachers and administrators planning career education must be careful to develop sequential objectives that are achievable, challenging, and tailored to students' interests. Elementary-level career education may emphasize separate…

Criticizes the beginning of period version of the IS-LM model found in most textbooks. Argues that this model fails to capture the effects of the issuance of financial assets to finance current investment spending by firms and current deficit spending by the government. Recommends an end-of- period model. (MJP)

This report documents the second of two studies on teaching and learning generic skills in high schools. It extends the earlier work by providing a model for designing classroom instruction in both academic and vocational classrooms where teaching generic skills is an instructional goal. Ethnographic field methods were used to observe, record, and…

Examination of almost any university's curricular goals or expectations and the actual courses taken by particular students demonstrates significant discrepancies between the rationale and the actuality and between the intentions of general or specialized education and the knowledge made available in the courses taken. A major reason for the…

Perspectives on providing general education for college students are presented in three papers. In "General Education in a Contemporary Context" by Jerry G. Gaff, the need for curricular reforms and two common approaches to the process are considered, and changing circumstances that indicate the need for new approaches to general education are…

Questionnaires were mailed to a sample of 1,980 non-returning, non-occupational students who had been enrolled at Cerritos College during spring 1976 but did not return in fall 1976, in order to test the applicability of the California community college Student Accountability Model (SAM), a statewide follow-up system for occupational students, to…