This document is the second volume of a three-volume state-of-the-art report based on a study conducted to identify and analyze the effective mechanisms for facilitating coordination of vocational education programs with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Title IV youth programs. Included in this volume is a distillation of…

The Madison (Minneapolis, MN) school program provides intensive instructional and treatment services to students 12 to 16 years old with serious emotional and behavioral problems. The primary goal of the program is to aid individual students to develop sufficient coping skills and self based behavioral controls so they can successfully return to…

The document reports accomplishments of the Home and School Services project serving handicapped children (0 to 8 years old) in the Magnolia (AK) School District. Findings of the evaluation are reported in terms of objectives under the following program components: direct and supplementary services for children's services, parent/family…

A project was conducted at William James College (Michigan) to develop a model designed to demonstrate the infusion of career education into liberal arts education. The project focused on the following five types of activity: (1) increasing faculty understanding of career education to provide strategies for relating teaching to career choices; (2)…

A College of Education, University of Georgia, project attempted to demonstrate the portability of the Georgia Model containing materials suitable for use in staff development for career education through conferences, provision of materials on the Georgia Model, and followup visits to participants. After studying the model, about 150 faculty…

Focusing on vocational education programs that have accommodated the handicapped, this resource book is designed for use with a planning system for improving local secondary and postsecondary program and facilities accessibility. The first of three major sections presents brief descriptions of seven model programs, including (1) the Special…

The document describes the Executive High School Internships program which mainstreamed a pilot group of 14 high potential students with orthopedic, hearing, and sight impairments into a project which enabled them to spend a full term, on leave from classes, in nonpaid placements with public and private sector managers and executives, learning how…

This report describes twenty federally funded youth employment program models and innovations. Each four-page description includes the following: program title, name of operating agency, project costs, source of funds, number of participants, unique program features, duration of grant, major program goals and objectives, prime sponsor, contact…

This report presents descriptions of the products resulting from a project designed to identify, synthesize, and interpret research and exemplary practices for preparing educators in preservice, graduate, and inservice programs to practice educational equity. The following four products were produced: (1) an annotated bibliography of resources for…

This implementation manual for a sex education course is designed for the following purposes: offers a step-by-step guide to involving a broad base of community agencies in sex education; provides detailed curriculum plans for implementing a sex education program for parents and adolescents, and for adolescents only; presents a variety of…

Seventy-eight federally funded California vocational education projects were evaluated to provide information on which to base plans for future research and exemplary program policies and procedures in vocational education. Objectives of the evaluation were to (1) provide information for future planning of administration of funds; (2) determine if…

A study was conducted to determine the effect of the locally developed program of career orientation implemented in the Danville, Virginia, middle schools in August 1976, on the career development and academic achievement of students in grades 5, 6, and 7. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design was used for the evaluation, and…

This publication presents approximately 50 brief case studies that describe the experience of participants in the National Diffusion Network (NDN), a linkage system established by the U.S. Office of Education to enable people to share their knowledge and help each other promote change in the schools. The case studies illustrate the change-agent…

Appalachian Education Satellite Project (AESP), using the ATS-6 satellite, has designed a variety of multi-media learning activities intended to upgrade the quality of instruction in Appalachia. Four modes of communication (televised programs, four-channel audio review, four-channel data collection and analysis, and VHF-teletype relay system) were…

The Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD), a project of the Federation of Rocky Mountain States, Inc. (FRMS), employed a project management model for its organizational structure. The organization and management system utilized by the STD was designed to accomplish a predetermined set of objectives with the highest quality possible within a…