While considerable research has been conducted on educational practices and programming for incarcerated youth, significantly less attention has been given to short-term detained youth. The high transience of pre-adjudicated youth, legal protections pending trial, and varying levels of collaboration with correctional personnel have made it…

The City School District of Syracuse, New York devised an individualized instructional program which developed students who were creative, self-discoverers, problem-solvers, and capable of learning to learn. As a first step, a 1969 summer inservice workshop was held at which one or more administrators and two teachers from each of 13 schools were…

The purpose of this study was (1) to determine the frequency in which school social workers in Virginia engage in and prefer to engage in social work related activities and (2) to determine if the frequency in which the social work related activities the school social workers engage in is related to select variables. After a comprehensive review…

Focusing on the management of vocational curricula with a special emphasis on individualized instruction, a research and development project had a fourfold purpose: (1) design and development of a statewide curriculum management system (CMS), (2) testing of that system by developing additional individualized student materials and adapting existing…