With an eye toward contemporary skill building to meet community centered economic needs, organizations such as Literacy Volunteers of America are increasingly pressured to examine new avenues in promoting employment readiness skills for the newly literate. These organizations and countless others have come to the realization that being prepared…

Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of rural education and calls for the establishment of a rural education network that would disseminate information about exemplary programs dealing with problems unique to rural schools. (FL)

Neither the Oklahoma public schools nor vocational rehabilitation had the resources requisite to an adequate preparatory program for educable mentally retarded children. Thus, a number of meetings, attended by public school and rehabilitation personnel, resulted in the decision to pool the resources of both into a cooperative program designed to…

The framework for an effective planning and coordinating program for the future development of higher education in Michigan is being devised, with the present structure as a starting point. The implementation of the process by which this development is to take place is the theme of this plan. Discussions include the needs of the people for higher…

Author states that "...potential /of lifelong education in the arts/ for helping to add to and define meaning in human life would be vastly expanded if it...were treated as a basic skill in constant need of refurbishing." (Author/RW)

The career guidance advisory committee reviewed both national and State efforts in the area of career guidance and attempted to define and develop the concept. The committee examined concepts that were relevant to the needs of Massachusetts and developed a rough framework on which to build a comprehensive State plan. The report addressed itself to…

Although several fundamental forces are changing the American economy and the American work force, three conditions are pivotal--demographic change, technological change coupled with shifting conditions of competition, and the continuing inadequacies of both public- and private-sector employment and training policies. The employment and training…

Representatives of 20 professional education associations were surveyed through questionnaires and interviews regarding their membership, their perceived needs in the education of handicapped students, professional development and dissemination activities, and collaborative efforts with other groups. This report from the National Inservice Network…

Goals of the secondary health occupations workshop held May 16-18, 1974, in Madison were to develop a set of guidelines for health occupations education in Wisconsin secondary schools and to increase educators' awareness of the need for such education in Wisconsin. Speeches and panel discussions were titled as follows: "Health Care…

This final task force report contains a study of education and training needs of existing and future minority entrepreneurs and makes specific recommendations for the national effort to expand business ownership by minority persons. Ten chapters detail findings and recommendations; education and training: key to minority enterprise survival; the…

A national agenda for the education of gifted students should focus on three areas of unmet needs: the educational needs of the underserved gifted, including underachievers, young gifted, and culturally diverse gifted; a program quality support network, emphasizing research, development, demonstration, and leadership training; and collaborative…

Data collected by the Education Division staff regarding school administrator training needs indicated that expanded or improved training is needed and that ideas on how to provide this training without extensive new resources must be shared. Several plans and policy options are described and discussed. (MF)

Large numbers of trained volunteers working in community-based settings are needed if adult literacy programs are to be successful. In addition, adult literacy programs must work in partnership with other community organizations. Particularly necessary are formal linkage agreements with nontraditional organizations such as service and fraternal…

Contained in this document are broad guidelines for implementation of the recommendations made at a conference attended by 22 leaders in trade and industrial education held at Austin, Texas in May, 1967. The recommendations are organized under headings of: (1) Expanded Programs and Services, (2) Organizational Structures for the 1970s, (3)…

This package was developed through the outreach activities of Project STEPS (Sequenced Transition to Education in the Public Schools), which developed an early childhood transition model to facilitate the development of state and community-wide systems for transition. The package covers four major component areas of transition: interagency…