For generations American society and educational institutions have considered pregnant and parenting female students as throwaway students. They have been given little consideration or encouragement to stay in school. At times they were not even allowed to attend school. With 80% of teenage mothers never finishing high school, it is vital to look…

This program, "Decisions and Outcomes", was developed as an extension of the junior high program, "Deciding". The new one is intended for senior high school students, college students, and adults and can be used as an extension of "Deciding" or as a substitute for it with older students. The program deals with typical real-life situations faced by…

This training guide is designed to prepare high school students to assist school counselors in incorporating career guidance and job training skills into an ongoing high school guidance curriculum. The materials focus on training students to listen to the problems and concerns of other students, to provide career information, to learn…

The guide is designed to provide school administrators and guidance directors with an outline of what has been and what can be developed in the areas of structure and organization of student job placement programs. It describes a model program developed for the Akron-Summit County Ohio secondary schools, and consists of detailed outlines of the…

Motivated migrant students can accumulate some credits necessary for high school graduation via the Portable Assisted Study Sequence (PASS) Program of correspondence courses. Migrant students enrolled in any high school district in California may also enroll in a PASS course to make up credit deficiencies in reading, English, speech, general math,…

This guide is based on the experiences and procedures generated in the FOCUS Project at a Portland, Oregon high school. The document includes an overview which addresses the basic FOCUS philosophy, overall goals and objectives, staffing, and student audience. The instruction section contains the curriculum model, cross peer instruction, utilizing…

This Vocational Education Resource Package (VERP) was developed to provide materials useful in replicating an exemplary vocational education program for special student populations in the California Community Colleges. This VERP provides information on Career Beginnings, an exemplary program for disadvantaged students, originally developed at…

The booklet provides guidelines, concrete curriculum plans, and rough ideas on urban adventure programs for suburban high school students. Following an overview that explains a three-phase organizing theory (exploration, focusing, action) for urban programs, there are descriptions of: a student-organized and conducted architectural tour of New…