We explain in this article the need for board training in rural America irrespective of industry or government sector. We discuss how an assessment of training needs has led to the launch of a new project called the National Board Basics Curriculum (NBBC) project. In this project, we have identified four key core competencies that every board…

The curriculum guide presents guidelines for planning and implementing a program in cooperative office education. Techniques include relating individual in-school instruction to individual job needs and career goals and to coordinate the student's education with actual work experience in an office in the community. A summary of Federal and State…

This curriculum guide prepared in Louisiana suggests a model by which educational institutions may design and implement an articulated tech prep program. The following sources of information for the model are described: literature review; interviews with tech prep specialists and conference participants; visits to two exemplary programs; and…

Part of a series of industrial arts curriculum materials developed by the State of Louisiana, the tentative curriculum guide presents an outline for an introductory course on the construction industry. Designed for use at the middle school level, it is intended that through the performance of the suggested activities, student knowledge of work and…

This resource guide is the result of a 3-year effort by a task force which addressed vocational and career education services for disabled students in Louisiana. Section I reports on the assessment process for students requiring special education with subsections on essential competencies recommended for vocational assessment personnel, the role…

A project was conducted to evaluate a proposed interior design program in order to determine the marketability (job availability in the field of interior design and home furnishings merchandising) and the feasibility (educational requirements for entrance into the interior design and home furnishings merchandising job market) of the program. To…

The publication describes the development and implementation of a State plan for career education in Louisiana (1973-74) based on a nine-component model. The components described are: curriculum development and revision, career education inservice training at the elementary and secondary level, inservice training at the college and university…

The following are among the 47 papers included: "Academic Performance and Retention of College of Agriculture Students" (Garton, Dyer, King); "Perceptions of Recent Graduates and Employers about Undergraduate Programs in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University" (Heyboer, Suvedi);…