The casebook attempts to demonstrate the value of research and development for vocational education by examining selected projects conducted in the southern States that comprise the Southwide Research Coordinating Council. Resumes of the 26 projects carried out by the research coordinating units of 14 States are presented: Alabama, Arkansas,…

Summarizes recent ERIC documents and journal articles and highlights some World Wide Web resources that discuss the efforts of states to fund prekindergarten programs. Highlights resources including information on delivery systems, coordination among various programs, analyses of policy trends, program descriptions, and models of family-school…

The document provides an introduction and overview of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) and abstracts of each of the 208 HCEEP projects. HCEEP has five types of projects: (1) 127 demonstration projects, which provide parents, communities, and professionals with models for early childhood education; (2) 49 outreach…

The abstracts were taken from the final reports of projects in Oregon funded under the Vocational Education Amendments of 1974, Part C and D, during the 1973-74 year. The projects include those funded through monies administered and allocated by the State of Oregon and those operating under direct Federal grants. The abstracts have been reproduced…

The bibliography of 27 abstracts with their descriptive terms presents documents concerning program descriptions, teaching techniques, and curriculum information for the emotionally disturbed and socially maladjusted. No research reports are included. Author and subject indexes and information for ordering the total document or individual…

This conference proceedings report contains abstracts of seven 1977-78 Virginia Adult Basic Education (ABE) projects presented at a dissemination conference for ABE administrators and teachers. The abstracts vary in length (two to seven pages) and format and focus on program objectives, procedures or strategies, expected results, findings,…

Abstracts of 24 exemplary vocational guidance projects funded in the Commonwealth of Virginia through Title II (Vocational Education) of Public Law 94-482 are provided, with descriptions of the 12 projects designed to increase sex equity in vocational guidance and vocational education programs, and the 12 projects designed to encourage…

Research and development projects for improvement of the administration of vocational education at the State level are described in the report. These projects, supported by the Office of Education for fiscal year 1975, are efforts to develop management information systems that will make available to State administrators information to aid in the…

These abstracts were prepared for three purposes: (1) to provide NIE and the states with an indication of NTS's familiarity with specific projects; (2) to provide NIE, the states, and other audiences with programmatically useful information about the State Capacity Building Program; and (3) to support design development for NTS's evaluation study…

This bibliography provides selected references on apprenticeships published between 1974 and 1979. References included were obtained from a search of the card catalog of the Department of Labor library, standard periodical indexes, and other reference sources such as Educational Resources Information Center and the National Technical Information…

Forty project abstracts constitute this collection, all of them Pennsylvania research and exemplary activities conducted during the 1975-76 fiscal year and supported with part C and D federal vocational funds (Public Law 90-576). Each of the one-page abstracts contains project title, name and address of project director, project dates, amounts of…

The directory contains abstracts of Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) documents, a bibliography of resource materials, and a directory of selected Iowa career education offerings. Abstracts of ERIC documents are in the following areas: career education bibliographies; career education as a concept; integrating career education into…

This compilation of approximately 250 document resumes provides educators with abstracts of research, instructional, and other materials in vocational and technical education, and abstracts of funded research and development proposals. The resumes are arranged in ascending order according to an ED (ERIC Document) accession number, with each resume…

This report describes NIE's Dissemination Grants Program, documents dissemination activities in 29 state education agencies as of November 1978, and highlights similarities and differences among states participating in the program. It is primarily descriptive rather than evaluative, and reveals that while each state is committed to building…

This brochure provides information about projects funded in 1986 by grants under the Higher Education Act Title II-C Program, a program which assists major research libraries in maintaining and strengthening their collections, and in making their holdings available to individual researchers, scholars, and other libraries. The following information…