Descriptions of seven diverse bilingual education programs focus on instructional practices that have contributed to the programs' effectiveness as measured by exceptional student achievement, trained observers' perceptions of instructional quality, and the pride of professional staff and parents. The program settings and types include these: (1)…

The Job Placement Program was designed to provide counseling and job placement assistance to work-bound high school seniors as well as information on employment opportunities to all students, whether work or college bound. During the project, members of the senior class at Hopatcong High School in Hopatcong, New Jersey, were surveyed in order to…

Basic information about the federal Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program, including its status and the level of participation, is presented, and policy issues concerning cost, equity, efficiency, and administration are also identified. After specifying six criteria for evaluating options for change in the program, specific options are listed…

Community demands for more control of the schools and a teacher over-supply had great impact on the planners of the Urban/Rural School Development Program. Into its 5th year of operation, the program offers the only national experience for developing national strategies for inservice education. Distinguishing the program from other Federal…

Contents of this annual report summarize the functions of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, list its 1976 meetings and its members, and present findings and recommendations from eleven council reports made during the year. The reports are as follows: (1) final report of the school-to-work project which produced a series of six…

Career Doors was a developmental project designed to develop motivational instructional materials that introduce and reinforce the connection between educational and employment decisions made by undereducated adults and to produce a variety of audio visual materials for use in existing Indiana adult education programs. Since the project was…

From 1966 through 1977, 700 men and women were selected, primarily because they had demonstrated some capacity for personal initiative, to be fellows in the $11 million Leadership Development Program (LDP) supported by the Ford Foundation to develop new leadership in rural America. To operate LDP a decentralized organization with offices in Maine,…

According to a 1981 study, the Life Skills Program that was developed by Saskatchewan New Start over a decade ago is still very much needed to improve the life situation of economically disadvantaged adults. At present, the overall rationale for the Life Skills Program is contained in collections of articles written at successive stages of program…

Taking the current excitement among educators concerning the uses of microcomputers for student instruction as a point of departure, this paper addresses the problems and possibilities associated with the uses of microcomputers in the classroom and discusses these in terms of instructional techniques and the social aspects of integrating computer…

A model proposed for school improvement has two assumptions: (1) The local school, as a social organization, is the optimal unit for educational change; and (2) The local school organization must be linked to other educational organizations. For the model to succeed, teachers and administrators must be directly and continuously involved in all…

This study was designed to describe the different models of Employer-Sponsored Child Care (ESCC) available to employers and child care professionals. Examples of specific child care programs sponsored by employers are described, and five ESCC models are identified: on-site and off-site centers for a single employer, off-site centers for multiple…

The enactment of educational equity legislation, such as the Women's Equity Act of 1974 and the Education for all Children Act of 1974 (Public Law 94-142), has resulted in increased funding for education program development, but little hard data has been collected to prove program effectiveness. A review of research literature indicates that not…

The Jefferson County (Florida) Career Education Project was designed to meet the needs of this predominantly low-income, non-white community. The objectives were (1) to increase self-awareness and career awareness in grades K-5; (2) in grades 6-8 to increase self-awareness and career knowledge in the clusters of Agri-Business and Natural…

A two-pronged theory underlying literacy campaigns suggests that (1) the prevailing ideology of a society will determine the objectives of the literacy campaign as well as the language of justification used by the development elite in the promotion of adult literacy; and (2) the ideology, as expressed in the political culture of a society, will…

This report describes the fiscal year 1981 appropriations for implementing the third year of activities under the Career Education Incentive Act. Summarized first are three projects involving the demonstration and validation of a comprehensive elementary/secondary career project in a local setting (in the Ceres Unified School District in…