The U.S. Office of Education Metric Education Program involves some 72 projects throughout 45 States and two territories. Vocational education is a critical part of this program to increase the number of school students, teachers, and other adults who are able to use the International System of Measurement. Some individual projects are described.…

Describes Wisconsin's cooperative education service agency program organized to help groups of small rural schools get special industrial education expertise that would be too costly for a single school to support. Presents K-12 curriculum descriptions for a cluster of five school districts with sequenced course content. (MF)

The Kansas State plan for industrial education provides for four levels of industrial education, from elementary through postsecondary. The industrial education program was developed by Wichita State University, the Wichita Public Schools, and Kansas State College of Pittsburg. Project rationale and objectives; courses in materials and processes,…