The Productive American Project was initiated by the National Council for Occupational Education to explore human resource issues related to productivity and competitiveness, and the role of two-year colleges in human resource development. The results of this project are presented in two reports. The first monograph provides a discussion of…

In 1983, the Ford Foundation funded a two-part project, the Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Project (UCC/TOP), designed to improve the transfer process from the community college to the four-year institution for urban minority students. Through partnership efforts with secondary schools and four-year colleges and universities, the…

The delivery model of the Birth-through-Three program incorporates interlocking community-based centers with a regional agency (Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative) under the administrative guidance of an advisory council. The program goal is to provide highly qualified professional services to the targeted children/families within…

This booklet is designed to help organizations and individuals who are developing new training programs to become familiar with the provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) that apply to persons over the age of 55. In addition, the characteristics, abilities, and special training and employment needs of older adults are outlined. The…

This report presents findings, implications, and resulting recommendations from a study of the provision of educational programs for and by the Florida State Correctional System. After introductory materials on the state's correctional system and the purposes and methods of the study, the report provides information on: (1) programs offered within…

This book, one of a series designed for rural career guidance programs, provides guidelines for creating cooperative agreements between career guidance personnel and business, industry, labor personnel, and others in the community to benefit students in rural/small school environments. Chapter 1 explains the term "cooperative agreements," defines…

Designed as a reference for practitioners interested in implementing or improving vocational education programs to serve disadvantaged youth, this report contains the results of a nationwide study of institutional interface between vocational education and CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) Title IV prime sponsors. The 111 programs…

This report summarizes the past, present, and future activities of the Knowledge Development Plan for Youth Initiatives, which is being developed and implemented as part of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA). First, a framework for the plan is given, covering the aims of the fiscal 1978 and 1979 activities which stress…

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, is establishing a new discretionary grant program entitled Replication of Project New Pride: A Serious Offender Youth Treatment Program. Project New Pride was chosen for replication because of its demonstrated effectiveness in Denver, Colorado,…

A multi-phased demonstration and research project was established to assist with rehabilitation problems of severely disabled and handicapped persons. Services made available were: (1) evaluation of the individual's vocational potential, (2) work and personal adjustment programs, (3) training courses not available through traditional sources, (4)…

To describe concurrent work-education programs in each of the 50 states, data were solicited from each state office by personal visit and from individual school districts by mailed questionnaire. Reports were made to the U.S. Office of Education by the states and reports made by individual school districts to state offices were utilized. Some…

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…

The monograph orders career education program components and assigns responsibility for their delivery, stating major differentiation areas and placing career development and the counselor's facilitating role at the center. The first three chapters review the modern history of vocational choice, career development, and career education concepts;…

The Arkansas Vocational Education Leadership Development Extern Program was designed to prepare vocational education coordinators, directors, and other supervisory personnel for positions as leaders of vocational education within the state, specifically for the secondary grades in local school districts. An innovative, sequentially structured…

This report describes the project components of this Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I program in Hawaii in 1974. It identifies the extent of education achievement and specifies those influences which encourage positive learning behavior in children. The components of the project are: the reading resource rooms; the remedial…