Where do students find out about courses they might take? Potentially, from just about anywhere: friends, bulletin boards, department Web sites, advisors, e-mails, or flyers posted in the halls. Of course, some of these sources are more trustworthy than others. Where should students go to get reliable information that can help them make wise…

Seventeen guidelines for reading improvement programs in elementary and secondary schools are presented and discussed in this report. Areas focused upon include needs assessment, implementation, evaluation, philosophy and dissemination. The guidelines are: (1) identify the status of the reading program, including reading problems and program…

This catalogue provides current information on State Facilitator projects on educational programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The one-page descriptions outline services, funds available, and activities of each project. Staff members are listed by name, title, responsibilities, and percentage of…

This report is based upon a study of law-related education in America supported by a grant from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). The study involves a national survey of law-related education projects active in elementary and secondary schools and public and private agencies which have supported or might support such projects,…

This document is an outline of a project to develop, evaluate, and disseminate a set of curriculum materials for use in the elementary (K-6) grades. This paper sketches the role of schools in the energy problem, outlines goals and objectives for curriculum activities, and develops a plan for the content and use of the materials. Strategies for…

IN RESPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR AGENCY MATERIAL, THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PAPERS FROM MOBILIZATION FOR YOUTH EXPERIENCE AND THE TRAINING DEPARTMENT WAS PRESENTED. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY WAS DIVIDED INTO PAPERS PUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED AND PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES. UNDER PAPERS PUBLISHED WERE THOSE BY SHERMAN BARR, BERTRAM BECK, AND MELVIN HERMAN. UNDER PUBLISHED…

The purpose of a project was to identify and explain the issues involved in formulating a role for vocational education in serving the employment-related training needs of older persons. The overall goal was to identify, analyze, describe, and disseminate information concerning policy and planing issues, service needs, service providers,…

Under contract with the United States Office of Education, RMC Research Corporation and its subcontractor, Learning Achievement Corporation, undertook a research and development program aimed at identifying compensatory education projects which had produced reliably measured cognitive achievement benefits in reading and/or arithmetic. Once…

In a broad sense, this study is concerned with increasing the responsiveness of the federal government in improving the employment prospects of disadvantaged youth. In a narrower sense, it is concerned with increasing the effectiveness and the efficiency of local In-School Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) programs. This report had four specific…

This manual has been prepared as a supplement to the final report (CE 018 453) on the Systemwide Career Education Cluster-Based Articulated Model Program, SCECAMP. An introduction provides an overview of the SCECAMP project and the rationale for this replication manual. The first of the three major sections contained in this document summarizes…

VIEW (Vital Information for Education and Work) is essentially an information-gathering, storing, and dissemination system which uses microfiche application for information retrieval. It provides a means for giving current occupational information at a local level. The State of Michigan has made the VIEW project available to every junior and…

This report presents results of a project to identify alternative delivery systems for marketing education and to disseminate marketing education resource information. It describes project objectives and activities, including development of a regional delivery approach, preparation of trainers to conduct regional inservice meetings, and regional…

This book, based on the experiences of institutions of higher education, lists print, nonprint, and organizational resources to assist colleges and universities involved in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) efforts. The book has 12 sections which provide: (1) an annotated list of campus documents from nearly 100 college campuses putting CQI…

This guide is intended to serve as a basic information source for those seeking to establish a Career Resource Center (CRC) in a school or other community agency. The content is presented in eight chapters. The first one, an introduction, covers the role and benefits of CRC's, while the focus of chapter 2 is on the rationale for career education…

The State Research Coordination Units (RCU's) are in an optimum position to provide linkage between the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) and its users as part of a comprehensive vocational-technical education information dissemination system. Realizing this, the Center for Vocational and Technical Education developed this guide with…