In January 1987, California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), began to explore the potential of interactive videodisk (IVD) technology on its campus. The challenge of introducing an individualized instructional technology into a cost conscious and conventional teaching environment was formidable, considering the traditional orientation of…

Given the high importance to this Nation's future of strengthening the quality of instruction, and access to that instruction, in the critical subjects supported by Title II of the Education for Economic Security Act, every effort should be made to widely and effectively share program successes. This Special Program of Exemplary Projects is one…

Field experience reports are provided for exemplary adult education programs in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia which were each visited by an adult education administrator from another of the programs. Each report overviews the program, makes observations on unique aspects of the program (such as programs,…

Discussing the related problems of military recruitment and civilian youth unemployment and inadequate education and training, this paper is intended to provide a framework for the consideration and analysis of alternative approaches to these problems. Without offering recommendations, the paper also reports the effects of three prototypical…

The origin and development of Project NewGate are described from 1971-74. (The project presents a model program of higher education for incarcerated offenders, consisting of the in-prison phase, transitional phase, and release phase.) Specific project characteristics are discussed and include a 4-year academic program for prison inmates; an…

This report describes the fiscal year 1981 appropriations for implementing the third year of activities under the Career Education Incentive Act. Summarized first are three projects involving the demonstration and validation of a comprehensive elementary/secondary career project in a local setting (in the Ceres Unified School District in…

This book tells the story of how one school system in a medically underserved community near Chicago conceived and implemented primary care health facilities in two of its schools to serve all the children of the school district. The key to the preventive health care plan is the use of specially trained school nurse practitioners and health aides…

An American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC) project disseminated career education programs and products to community colleges. It conducted a national survey of all community, junior, and technical colleges to identify status of career education and clarify their needs for assistance; conducted a followup survey of…

At the end of September, 1978, 37,000 low-income youths in seventeen competitively selected communities across the country were enrolled in Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects which guaranteed them a part-time job during the school year and a full-time job during summer months on the condition that they remain in, or return to, a secondary…

This report describes and evaluates 14 early childhood development (ECD) demonstration projects which were funded by the Texas Department of Community Affairs/Early Childhood Development Division but planned and implemental in primarily rural areas, by local Texas communities. The first section of the report lists the major research questions on…

A model career preparation program for first-year engineering women at Purdue University is described. Key elements of this project, which is funded through the Women's Educational Equity Act, are: a course designed to provide engineering and career information and practical experience; a means of evaluating the methods and results; wide…

A study was conducted to update the handbook "Promising Practices in Career Education," May 1976 edition by reviewing eight projects conducted in Oregon during the fiscal year 1976. (The 1976 edition covered practices selected from Oregon vocational research and exemplary projects conducted from 1970 through 1975.) The project staff…

Covering the time period from September 1970 to July 1973, the final report reviews the overall goals, activities, and accomplishments of a pilot project in the New Orleans public schools to provide the exemplary program for occupational preparation (EPOP) for children of the inner city area. At the beginning of the third program year, technical…

The publication was developed to provide cursory information about the people, places, and things essential to career and vocational education that may be seen at the Comprehensive Illinois Occupational Education Demonstration Center (CIOEDC) in Joliet, Illinois. The CIOEDC was designed to demonstrate several K-14 career and vocational education…

From 1973 to 1975, the school systems of North Wilkesboro and Wilkes County, North Carolina engaged in a mutual venture to adjust the focus of special educational services from one of academic orientation to one of academic and occupational preparation. The special educational services provided to mentally retarded pupils in seven elementary…