Our Lady of the Lake College (OLL) has been engaged since early 1974 in coordinated development of a competency-based learning program. After tracing the program's evolution from its beginnings in 1971, described are: (1) competency formulation, evaluation and curriculum; (2) experimental programs - the Mentor Program and the Personal Development…

Unemployment of those aged 16 to 23 is due largely to inadequate job preparation. Most educators have little exposure to the world of work outside of education, and may unknowingly provide incorrect, restrictive or out-of-date information to students. This Educators-in-Industry Handbook is designed to provide G.E. plant representatives with…

Planning Program Budgeting Systems (PPBS) rest on the assumption that decision-making and resource allocation can be managed more efficiently when information about educational processes is collected uniformly and aggregated systematically. The School Planning Evaluation and Communication System (SPECS) conforms to this conception of PPBS as a…

There is a need to examine in a positive way what has been done in the interest of articulation among the various levels of higher education. For too long, those in higher education have tended to look only at the negative side of the picture and have ignored the successes. This article is an attempt to present some of the advances made in recent…

This publication is part 2 of a two-part paper that presents design specifications for the Wisconsin System of Instructional Management (WIS-SIM), a computerized management system designed for instructional programs that are compatible with the Individually Guided Education model. WIS-SIM incorporates processes for placement testing, performance…

This report provides an overview of the campaign to promote and advertise Candidates' Fair '72 and the staging of this one-day statewide political forum. Candidates' Fair '72 (CF '72) was an outgrowth of the philosophy of North Seattle Community College's Center for the Study of Practical Politics, a philosophy advocating that politics is…

A survey of the district's elementary principals and teachers and of the substitutes working at two elementary schools indicated that substitute teachers should be evaluated, that an inservice program for substitutes was needed to help provide information and direction that could improve their overall effectiveness, and that there was strong…

In 1972-73, 288 of the 339 school districts in Oregon took part in efforts funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I to provide a concentration of resources of educationally disadvantaged students. This report is compiled from project evaluations submitted by these participating school districts. Title I does appear to be helping…

This booklet outlines the details of a training workshop to provide Right to Read directors with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop comprehensive reading programs for their districts. In the first section, 26 criteria for the development of successful reading programs are listed under the three categories of organization and…

This report describes an experimental program in which civilians and police officers work as two-person teams, patrolling fixed "beat" areas in selected urban neighborhoods. These teams work in responding to service calls, aiding regular mobile patrols in their duties, deterring criminal activity and civilian victimization, and…

The basic realities which prompted the development and planning of this 1957 Yearbook (prepared by the Department of Rural Education, National Education Association) are: (1) there are and will always be a need for a large number of small schools; (2) the educational program of every small school can be greatly improved; (3) the extent to which…

A major goal of education should be to prepare every young person leaving school to enter higher education or to enter useful and rewarding work. This is the goal of Project Trident, a comprehensive career education program being developed at Lincoln Community High School, Illinois. The project, in its planning year, is directed toward secondary…

This historical case study of the Ridgeway Elementary School from initial community contact through the completion of the first year of Individually Guided Education (IGE) assesses the attitudes of the parents; evaluates the cost factors associated with implementing the program; assesses the effects of IGE implementation on the local community;…

This document represents nearly three years of work by the Kentucky Advisory Council for Environmental Education, a group appointed by the Kentucky Department of Education and consisting of representatives from education, government agencies, business, conservation groups, and others. The document includes: (1) a discussion of the nature of…

This report describes an experiment carried out in Baltimore between 1971 and 1974 which was designed to determine, using 432 ex-prison inmates, whether small amounts of financial aid would reduce recidivism among high-risk offenders recently released from prison. The opening section outlines the rationale for financial aid, the research design,…