As required by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984, the Illinois Council on Vocational Education conducted its first biennial study of the types and amounts of cooperation between vocational education (VE) and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs in the state. Data were collected from high schools, area vocational centers,…

Higher Horizons (HH) 100 is a program providing groups of 100 underachieving secondary school students in Hartford, Connecticut, with an integrated program of academic, cultural, and counseling services designed to develop and improve their basic skills in language and mathematics, self-concept, and adjustment to school. The eight small cluster…

LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY STATES ARE THE DEMONSTRATION CENTERS SELECTED BY THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TEACHER EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1967. THE ANNOTATED LISTING OF 205 SELECTED DEMONSTRATION CENTERS IDENTIFIES THE SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS TAKING PART IN EACH PROJECT, PROVIDES CONTACT PERSONS,…

This investigation identifies the goals in art education that high school teachers and college professors consider important in formulating a hierarchy of goals in terms of students' behavior, as guidelines for developing a ninth year general art course for disadvantaged youth in urban areas. Art goals to meet the special educational needs of the…

The handbook is designed for use by administrators, teachers, and instructional aides in the Aides to Career Education (ACE) Program. The program provides assistance to academically, socially, economically, and culturally disadvantaged students in secondary vocational programs by employing instructional aides who are subject field specialists to…

This report evaluates three New York City school district educational projects funded by the "New York State Urban Education Program" enacted at the 1969 legislative session of the New York State Legislature for the purpose of "meeting special educational needs associated with poverty." Project Read represents an attempt to…

Designed for junior or senior high school students with academic, socio-economic or other handicaps, the Coordinated Vocational-Academic Education (CVAE) Food Services course is also useful in other vocational education programs. Information in the curriculum guide is presented in three sections. Section one is an overview for teacher preparation;…

Prepared for a White House Conference on Children (December 1970), this report describes the Corrective Reading Program of Wichita, supported in target areas by funds from ESEA Title I and considered an effective large-scale remedial program which operates in the public schools. Special classes are held in each school building in which the program…

Learning problems of 392,317 students in Texas were diagnosed as being severe enough to require special treatment under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title I Regular, during the 1972-73 school year. This number, 14 percent of the 2.8 million students enrolled in public schools in Texas, represented a concentrated effort to…

This compilation of readings pertaining to vocational guidance is designed to provide counselors in a number of settings with access to articles that will complement standard information sources. Part 1 explores various approaches to the nature of work, while Part 2 focuses on society's dimensions of work with consequent implications for guidance.…

This volume of the report of the New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost, and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education is organized in five parts, the contents of which are as follows: Chapter six, "Curriculum" includes discussions of such topics as the goals of public education, reading and mathematics, children with…

This resource guide is designed to provide the reader with information about work experience programs in Rhode Island and other states. The first section consists of a prototypic model (which was developed in cooperation with educators and other personnel concerned with work experience programs) for making work experience-based vocational…

This teacher's guide on sewing is one of a series of six designed for the employment orientation program for special needs students at the Gloucester County Vocational-Technical School in Sewell, New Jersey. The series includes laundry, hospitality, sewing, basic business, foods, and beauty culture. Each guide contains daily lesson plans…

Project GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) is a federally funded program focused on encouraging disadvantaged youth to have high expectations, stay in school, and take academically rigorous courses to prepare them for college. A 5-year GEAR UP grant in rural southern West Virginia funds academic and support…

Project GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) is a federally funded program focused on encouraging disadvantaged youth to have high expectations, stay in school, and take academically rigorous courses to prepare them for college. A GEAR UP grant in rural north-central West Virginia funds academic and support…