This document presents summaries of the four presentations and two panel discussions from a conference that focused on the need for schools, employment and training systems, business, foundations, and other resources to coordinate efforts to address educational and employment problems of disadvantaged youth. "Public Subsidy or Private Payroll"…

This study was designed to identify and document programs and practices that demonstrated responsible success with special needs students in the areas of assessment, prevocational training, support services, coping skills, counseling, basic educational skills, and job placement. Data were obtained from more than 121 programs and from 16 visited…

Undertaken as a background paper for an early childhood education policy study intended to identify current issues in early childhood education and policy alternatives for consideration by the State Board of Education of Illinois, this report focuses on the effectiveness of early childhood education programs. Specifically addressed are (1) reasons…

This curriculum was designed to help teachers to prepare youth for employment. It is targeted for youth who are not academically oriented, have a low reading level, and are easily distracted, but it is intended to be flexible enough to challenge academically advanced youth as well. This curriculum was developed to serve as a teacher's manual, a…

Description and evaluation of services offered by the Career Center at Imperial Valley College, a community college located in southeastern California, is reported in this document. (The college serves a large percentage of disadvantaged students, predominantly Mexican-American.) The evaluation report includes discussion of the following areas:…

A literature review of cooperative vocational education programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels is presented in this information analysis paper. Two different approaches to cooperative education are identified: (1) the capstone approach, in which the student receives one or more years of in-school vocational training prior to the…

Milwaukee, Wisconsin public school pupils in the 1976-1977 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title VII Bilingual/Bicultural Education Program varied in language dominance from monolingual English to various degrees of bilingualism to monolingual Spanish. The program goals suggest that the 594 elementary pupils will pursue their studies…

Fourth, seventh, and ninth grade students in Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I programs were tested with the reading comprehension subtests of the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, at each of two levels: on-level for each respective grade, and an easier out-of-level form. Approximately half of these students were found to be…

A game-oriented curriculum was devised to promote the cognitive-language and social-emotional development of preschool children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, supplemented by Guilford's Structure of the Intellect, served as models. The games included such materials as card packs, models and…

The purpose of this report is to describe the services of Title I programs currently operating in State institutions for neglected or delinquent youth across the country. Demographic and social characteristics of Title I students and staff, program characteristics, objectives and funding status, and institutional environment are discussed. It is…

To provide instruction in work-related reading, writing, and mathematical computation, Jobs for Youth established a Right-to-Read Reading Academy. Program objectives were (1) to develop and expand work-related instructional tasks, competency pre- and post-tests, and work-related curriculum and (2) to provide service in this area for out-of-school,…

Prepared at the request of the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, this study analyzes present federal programs serving youth and evaluates a variety of alternative approaches, without making recommendations. After a summary of the issues involved in the youth employment problem (such as whether to emphasize training and education…

This report is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The report describes the methodology and preliminary findings of the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of youth, which seeks the effects of military service on the education and…

This volume is one of the products of the "knowledge development" effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) of 1977. Under YEDPA's discretionary authority there have been a number of efforts to better measure the impact of services that facilitate the transition of youth from…

This report provides short summaries of career education projects funded under the provisions of Section 406 of Public Law 93-380 during fiscal year 1978. Each project summary follows a similar format, which includes identifying information (title, grantee, project director), major objectives, project activities, evaluation, communications, and…