Dropout prevention is emerging as the most important new issue in education. Broad demographic trends predict a continuing growth in the population of at-risk youth, those most likely to drop out of school. The overall goal of any dropout prevention activity is to reduce the number of at-risk students. This issue is devoted to what research and…

The Seventh Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) proposed this detailed Work Plan for the project's third cycle (1982-1986). Each of the eight programme areas is defined and then addressed in the following categories: development objectives; immediate objectives; and lists of…

This report describes and assesses the effectiveness of activities conducted by the University of Toledo (Ohio)/Springfield Local Schools Teacher Corps Project. On-site staff development activities provided to elementary, junior, and senior high schools are described: (1) two credit-bearing courses on teaching strategies for multicultural…

This guidebook is designed to provide current, detailed information on effective literacy practices. The National Adult Literacy Project's program survey design is described in Chapter 1, with a summary of results from a sample of 213 programs. Chapter 2 focuses on the program selection and onsite interview process, from which the portraits of 31…

A project was undertaken to introduce gerontological content into the professional preparation of adult educators in the master's program in adult education offered at the University of Southern Maine. After courses in the existing curriculum of the master's program were analyzed for the appropriateness and currency of their gerontological…

A consortium involving California, Maryland, Michigan, and Missouri was established to develop and field test preservice and inservice competency-based staff development modules for career guidance and counseling personnel. A center consisting of a university and the state department of education was established in each of the four states. The…

Materials contained in this career education implementation guide (one in a series of seven) are designed for administrators, teachers, other school staff, parents, community volunteers, school boards, and community agencies and their needs for staff development. An evening family career planning seminar on career decision making designed for…

To improve vocational guidance and counseling programs and services in Illinois, nineteen site review teams analyzed the Career Guidance Center (CGC) programs and services offered to public and private educational and community-based agencies. (This evaluation was conducted as part of a larger study descrbed in CE 023 986.) The two major…

The Adult Basic Education Linkage Project (originally titled Project Reach) was designed to expand and promote linkage of adult basic education (ABE), English as a second language (ESL), and general equivalency degree (GED) programs in Western Pennsylvania with community groups and businesses and to conduct an extensive, ongoing outreach campaign…

The Industrial Arts Leadership Development Project was conducted to (1) provide inservice training for teachers to improve the quality of instruction and supervision; (2) provide inservice training for minorities and persons with limited English capability; and (3) provide leadership development for inservice teachers, service staff, and…

An evaluation was conducted to determine the effects of the General Electric Foundation Summer Institutes on Career Education and Guidance over a one to two year period in participating school districts and communities. The study evaluated the team-oriented institutes held in 1976 and 1977 at the University of South Carolina and Indiana…

This issue of Literacy Discussion explains the joint Arab strategy for illiteracy eradication and reviews Iraq's particular situation. The first of six articles traces literacy development in the Arab World leading up to the adoption of the Arab Literacy strategy at the 1976 Third Alexandria Conference in Baghdad, Iraq. It also presents…

An important component of staff development is performance appraisal or evaluation, for development must be appraised, and appraisal makes development measurable. Professional development of college and university administrators should be evaluated within the context of the institutional framework by an upward, downward, and parallel evaluation…

Materials in this handbook of procedures for implementing a sex equity workshop consist of six steps intended for adaptation in educational meetings, classrooms, and community gatherings. Outlined in the first section on the need for eliminating sex role stereotyping are legislative and economic mandates for sex equity and goals for inservice…

This guide is concerned with possible solutions to the dilemma faced by American Indians, who want to maintain their ancestral language and customs on the one hand but integrate themselves into the mainstream of the economy on the other. The tenacity of Indian languages and the importance they have for their speakers are demonstrated by the…