The Tigard School District, Oregon has designated two schools as models in a long-range career education plan which includes developing programs and processes for career awareness at the elementary level and career exploration at the junior high school level. A team selected by the Oregon Board of Education carried out a formative assessment…

The document is an evaluation report of an exemplary program to introduce eighth grade students of Sherwood High School (Sherwood, Oregon) to an exploratory and career-oriented program in the four areas of business education, home economics, industrial education, and vocational agriculture--horticulture. The assessment team gave major overall…

The proposal describes a demonstration career education project designed to promote career education philosophy, methods, program activities, and evaluation procedures in designated local education agencies (LEAs). The project's title is Academic Enhancement Through Career Education (ACE). The proposal's first section contains the proposal itself…

A seminar on direct teaching by television, held in Rome in December of 1966, created such interest that it was decided to call a second seminar, restricted to adult education, which was held at Scheveningen, July 1-5, 1968. The subject was the assessment of needs and evaluation of results. The purpose was to compare, at a European level, the…

Concerted Services in Training and Education was conceived as one way to minimize the dysfunctional effects of technological developments on rural communities. Three pilot projects were established to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a concerted approach to solving the training problem and other needs of rural people. One project was…

The project is an independent evaluation of a driver improvement program for unexceptional adult drivers, offered on a pilot basis in 1972-73 by Ford Motor Company to its employees. The program was conducted using four treatment groups which received different amounts of retraining (N=750). It was found that two treatments consisting of several…

This report of PROBE (Planning Resource Opportunities for Better Education) summarizes and evaluates activities from the time the project began its operation in March, 1967, through May 1968. Major objectives are: 1) to involve teachers in the enrichment of their curriculum programs; 2) to bring together the faculties in colleges and school…

Effects were explored of a multifaceted program of higher and secondary education for former drug addicts at Topic House, Nassau County, New York. Community college courses, High School Equivalency Diploma classes, vocational and technical training, and orientation for teachers and participating addicts, were among the activities offered. Of the…

In a proposed five-state demonstration, the four states of Arkansas, Minnesota, Mississippi and Nevada implemented a local system of directing evaluations of vocational/technical education programs in public schools. The emphasis was on both the training of local leaders by state leaders and direction of evaluation programs by local leaders. Using…

This report summarizes the year's activities of a project designed to: (1) review pilot programs in vocational education for the handicapped in Texas, (2) develop guidelines for the Texas Education Agency to use in evaluating pilot proposals for training the handicapped under provisions of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, and (3)…

This article is a criticism of the NFER report, which evaluated primary school French in England. The following are discussed: factors not considered in the report, whether the conclusions were justified by the evidence, the validity of the tests, and whether the report really evaluates primary school French. (KM)

Examines major goals, pilot projects, and other activities of the International Environmental Education Program. Includes a series of suggestions for supplementing the effort as well as a comprehensive list of publications for readers interested in pursuing any individual aspects of the program. (Author/JM)

The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) was created to ensure that children in low-income areas could have access to nutritious meals during the summer months when school is not in session. During the school year about 15 million low-income children depend on the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and/or School Breakfast Program (SBP) for…

West Virginia shares with the rest of the nation a common sense brand of human capital theory that sees improved education as the corrective for unemployment and economic decline. Early and continuing intervention for less advantaged students is acquiring the status of a favored educational and long-term economic development tool. This study…

This report describes one of a series of pilot studies conducted to evaluate the instructional effectiveness of the Harcourt Reading Program. The study focused on the program's primary levels and included Grades 1 and 3. Participants, teachers who had not used the program previously, were encouraged to select one theme to pilot over a 6-week…