The paper represents the Office of Education's first comprehensive conceptual statement on career education. It discusses such aspects of career education as conditions for educational reform, a rationale, a definition, basic concepts, programatic assumptions, initial implementation of career education tasks, learner outcomes, and educational…

Article examined the provisions typical of pass/fail plans implemented in several high schools in this country to determine if these provisions are likely to enhance accomplishment of the objectives of the pass/fail grading innovation. (Author/RK)

Article considered reasons why projects are attempting to involve parents in child development. (Author/RK)

We in continuing education must define and refine our philosophical commitments based on our parent organization's philosophy, the mandates from professional organizations, and our own professional value systems. (Author)

Discussed the Learning Activity Package, a method for creating effective individualized programs. (Author/RK)

Article cited reasons for the phenomenal growth of IGE. Included were the advantages for teachers, administrators and students. (RK)

Participants in the Dad's Day at the Center for Young Children program meet on Saturday mornings for a series of 12 sessions which combine play and discussion group activities. The first hour of each session is structured so that fathers and their 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children can spend time together experiencing new toys, foods, arts, and games…

The Pre-Professional Laboratory Experience course is a semester-long early field experience involving prospective teacher education candidates in routine classroom activities and observation experiences on the elementary and secondary level. The set of handbooks which was developed to accompany the course includes a student handbook, a supervising…

Special skills are required for foster parenting adequate to the needs of today's foster children. This paper describes how one agency planned and implemented the first components of a comprehensive, long-range program of foster parent education. (SDH)

This author-specialist tries to identify a model for use by all specialists in developing State-level programs. This article details the dilemmas found in program development in adult education. A diagram of the program development model is included. (JC)

Described a program designed to improve each student's ability to discriminate sounds, increase listening skills, improve the use of oral English and indirectly to improve reading abilities (vocabulary and comprehension). (Author/RK)

Article discussed instructional organization with the focus on the characteristics and implications of four alternatives to the traditional pattern of concurrent courses. (Author/RK)

Article described an innovative program, recently developed into a permanent department at Triton College, which stirred student motivation and learning experience. (Author/RK)

This document is the initial description of the specifications of the philosophies, procedures, and processes for secondary schools to use in planning, implementing, and managing Individually Guided Education (IGE) learning programs. This is specified in a target format. Also delineated is the general and specific developmental strategy the…

This paper poses a systematic change process for secondary schools that will enable them to achieve individualized and personalized learning for students. Included in the process are a perspective on change, planning issues and elements, a strategy for planning, a target/timeline framework, and a sequence for change. Finally, a pupose-oriented…