This article explores the partnership between the Peace Corps and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), which may expand opportunities for community college graduates to serve as Peace Corps Volunteers and then continue their formal education in the United States. This includes opportunities to grow professionally and personally…

Examines the test results from the French Administration of Evaluation and Long-term Planning to determine which subject has the greatest impact on channeling students into academic, technical, or vocational programs. Finds that French, English, and mathematics have greater influence on the teacher recommendations for future progress, but that…

The author describes how, since the youth disruptions of the "Gang of Four" era, the Chinese Communist Central Committee has more closely monitored moral behavior, promulgating a code of conduct for elementary and secondary students. The objectives of Chinese ideological and moral education and selected instructional procedures are…

This study mapped the correspondence between indicators included in "Educational Outcomes and Indicators for Students Completing School," developed by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO), and indicators included in national data collection programs. These data collection programs included such efforts as the National…

To identify causes for low enrollment in secondary agricultural schools in Yemen, the United States Agency for International Development and the Yemen Ministry of Education surveyed 990 preparatory (junior high) students, examining their educational aspirations, differences between rural and urban youth, major influences on student aspirations,…

This volume is the fifth and last in a series that gives a comphehensive view on the present status and future prospects of adult education in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries. The series attempts to show what kind of national policies and strategies are required to increase public participation in…

The British, like the Americans, are facing youth education and employment problems. Recent consideration of the content and standard of education, especially the obligations schools have in equipping pupils for adult life, has led to the suggestion that schools have a duty to meet industry's needs. Government should consider a national program…