The demand for workers with entrepreneurial skills is increasingly driving innovation in the education system, both at the K-12 and postsecondary levels. A growing number of education groups are augmenting the training programs currently offered in high schools by teaching entrepreneurial skills. The National Foundation for Teaching…

A case study is presented of a creative, academically gifted adolescent who was intellectually and artistically stifled until the girl, her parents, a gifted education facilitator, a psychologist, and an art mentor worked together to find her a more suitable placement, through early admission to a college art program. (JDD)

Advantages of school-community partnerships in developing rural transitional programs for disabled students include informal community politics that provide opportunities for educational support, accessibility of nonschool personnel, acquaintanceship of parents, strong rural work ethic, and easy identification of community resources. Provides…

A survey and in-depth interviews in an isolated British coastal town examined adolescents' computer and Internet use at home and in school. Adults had ambitious, future-oriented notions about how such technologies would expand children's educational opportunities and social and spatial horizons; in contrast, adolescents actually used technology in…

Secondary students with mild disabilities often are unprepared to make a successful transition into adulthood. The traditional secondary curriculum for mildly disabled students focuses too much on remedial academics and not enough on the specific skills needed in social interactions, daily living, occupational choice, and employment. In addition,…

The Charlton pilot project was one of a number of trials undertaken throughout Australia to bring educational resources to isolated children. In this project, Telecom Australia provided seven small Victorian Higher School Certificate (H.S.C.) schools with two first prototype experimental devices: firstly, a small group terminal and secondly,…

The Alaska Consortium for Transition Services (ACTS) is a federally funded project to develop and implement secondary transition planning for rural Alaska students with severe disabilities. Secondary transition is the process of change occurring as students prepare to move from high school to adult life. As rural Alaska's severely disabled…

Advances in satellite technology hold great promise for offering a broad and varied curriculum in small rural schools. In 1985 and 1986 three vendors in the continental United States pioneered the offering of interactive satellite instruction for high school credit courses. The programs were: (1) German by Satellite offered by the College of Arts…

Vocational education programs adapted for use in rural areas are often unsuccessful because they do not meet the unique needs of rural communities. Rural school districts have limited financial resources, and few rural schools can offer a wide range of programs or special services to students. Smaller rural communities need persons having multiple…

The report details the description, analysis, and understanding phase of a study to provide local and state educational planners with information that would enable them to compare and evaluate alternative forms of inter-school district cooperation as a means of providing rural students with access to quality vocational education. Chapter I…

Described is the West Central Minnesota Institute for Creative Study, developed by a group of rural high schools to provide a summer enrichment program for gifted and talented youth. It is noted that the program was designed to bring together outstanding students, teachers, facilities, and materials in an attempt to expand and strengthen the…

The conference report on cooperative vocational education contains four main sections. The first, background papers, contains three papers: Education in a Changing Society, Carl H. Madden; A Prospectus for Cooperative Vocational Education, William F. Pierce; and Critical Issues in Cooperative Vocational Education, Robert M. Worthington. The second…

Descriptions of vocational, practical arts, and general adult education programs for an exemplary school curriculum, grades K-12 in Leflore County, Mississippi, are given in this 1969 document. Suggestions include development of an area vocational-technical school designed to supply partially the anticipated manpower needs of this rural county. It…

The final report for Cycle 5 of the Alaska Rural Teacher Training Corps (ARTTC) consists of retrospective observations on the program over the period May 1970 through August 1972. The preparation of the report consists of the observations and assessments of the project director. Contents of the report include a project description, program…

Prepared by the Overton County Rural Education Improvement Project Director for Overton County, Tennessee, this 4-section report covers the period from July 1, 1967 to June 30, 1972. Section 1 provides demographic and school data including the current county population, industrial expansion in the county, 1967-72 school population, a map of…