The purposes of a project were to update both the Oregon vocational research and exemplary project review system and the handbook, Promising Practices in Oregon Career and Vocational Education. A management team guided project staff in revising the data collection methodology and selection process. Interim accomplishments included review of…

This document consists of two manuals prepared for staff members and guidance counselors in the Learning Community (LC) program, as practiced in New Jersey's North Hunterdon Regional High School District. The staff members are described as teachers performing in multiple roles. Teachers help establish LCs around educational interests and are…

Descriptions of essential computer elements, logic and programing techniques, and computer applications are provided in an introductory handbook for use by educators and students. Following a brief historical perspective, the organization of a computer system is schematically illustrated, functions of components are explained in non-technical…

Intended for introductory instruction in wholesale management for distributive education students at the high school level, this manual, together with a separate answer key for the 15 assignments, contains detailed questions to answer and student projects to accomplish. Developed by an instructional coordinator with the aid of leaders in business…

The Columbus Ohio Public School system conducted a project to develop an instructional television (ITV) publication. The project's major goals were to: 1) develop a rationale for using ITV to enhance learning; 2) produce a book for preservice and inservice educators which would examine ITV in relation to the foundations of education, as well as…

This revised manual for individualized instruction of distributive education trainees at the high school or junior college level in basic advertising and sales promotion activities includes 15 self-study assignments, teaching suggestions, and a bibliography. Together with a separate answer key, each assignment provides student questions and…

The publication attempts to provide a guide for administrators, counselors, business teachers, and teacher educators which will be helping in working together to build a flexible, relevant curriculum for today's youth. It attempts to encourage a balance among courses in business education and courses which provide the college preparatory or the…

This book documents the Haaren Project, believed to be the only one involving the conversion of an entire existing high school to a mini-school format. It outlines the shortcomings of the existing system that gave rise to the alternative-school movement, traces the history of the early alternative schools citing their successes, shortcomings and…

Developed by the total staff at Vocational Village (Portland, Oregon), this handbook presents the following: (1) information about Vocational Village, a unique alternative high school which offers a program dedicated to helping economically and educationally disadvantaged youth between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one become independent,…

A research bibliography, one of a series from the Education Library at the University of Michigan, lists over one hundred books and six periodicals on the subject of non-traditional education. The materials, appropriate for use by educators, parents, and community groups, date from 1967 through 1972. Free, open, and non-graded alternative schools…

The manual describes an offcampus intern program for 12th-grade students in political science. Description of the project, Government Responsibility and Student Participation (GRASP), is divided into six chapters. Chapter I, Deciding Whether to Adopt the Model, identifies the need for an intern course and projects presumed student accomplishments…

The document describes a South Carolina Study Project involving high school students in making decisions relating to their school communities. The project encouraged students to examine and evaluate the ways in which they formed opinions, made value decisions, and checked out the validity of their facts. Students were given training in using…