The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project is the most comprehensive effort thus far to ascertain which approaches help welfare recipients and other low-income people stay steadily employed and advance in their jobs. Launched in 1999 and slated to end in 2009, the ERA project encompasses more than a dozen demonstration programs and…

This publication presents the reports of 10 schools which for two years have been involved in the Revitalization of Guidance Project. This project provided service and consultative assistance for guidance leadership teams from each of the 10 schools so that the schools could revitalize their guidance programs around a developmental…

This report appraises a 3-year project that sought to develop leadership teams in 10 schools so as to assist schools in revitalizing their guidance programs around a developmental approach. The focus was to create a guidance curriculum that was proactive rather than reactive and for the program to be installed in the school's regular curriculum.…

This report is one in a series on the work of the 30 pilot projects that form the European Community's second Programme on the Transition from Education to Adult and Working Life. The report reviews new demands on guidance and new approaches that have been developed to meet them, reviews the responses made by the Transition Programme pilot…

In this final report, the demonstration project conducted by the Mesa schools from 1973 to 1976 is shown to have been successful in reaching its goals of staff training, information dissemination, and student benefits in developmental career guidance, counseling, and placement services for grades K-12. Student-related objectives which are listed…