Observations and interviews were used to evaluate the East Providence Career Education Project for 1973-1974. Data available on processes and products suggest that the program is substantially meeting its goals in spite of low attendance figures and student performance on various tests. A lower socioeconomic class of students with its resultant…

The report is designed primarily for internal use by administrators and staff members of the Guided Occupational Orientation Project in Syracuse, New York, and contains a summary evaluation for the 1972-73 school year activities associated with the project. One section of the report discusses and displays specific outcomes compared with goals…

Information in the report is taken from FY 1973 annual vocational education reports submitted by States and major cities and from the 1970 census report. The material indicates the proportion of the States' population served by vocational education in the major cities and the expenditures that were made for vocational education. The total…

Project goals for the year ending June 30, 1974 were to complete development of the model initiated in Sand Springs Public Schools during the 1972-73 school year, to provide dissemination of the model across the State, and to demonstrate the model in operation. Major efforts concerned instructional material revisions or development from the first…

This report describes the relationships and programs the city of Portland, Oregon, maintains with its public schools and with some private schools, colleges, and universities. The document grew from a survey conducted within the city government in June 1978 and from subsequent studies concerning school boundaries, enrollments, public service…

The purpose of this annual report is to evaluate a demonstration project in vocational counseling for urban youth which is composed of four major elements: (1) a career orientation program for preadolescents, (2) a cooperative work experience program for students enrolled in vocational skill development at the secondary level, (3) a job placement…

The second year of the city-wide K-12 Bristol (Connecticut) Career Education Project is evaluated in the final report. The third party evaluator utilized an evaluation strategy identified as Information Based Evaluation (IBE). Rather than focusing on program objectives as the sole criteria for evaluation, the design also uses a series of research…

The author has reviewed the rise in the expense budget of New York City from the early 1960's to the early 1970's, concentrating on the expenditures for human resources development (education, health, welfare, and family back-up services) which account for about 70 percent of the total. One reason for rising expenses has been the expansion of…

This report details a study of trends in the salaries of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and other personnel at member agencies of the Child Welfare League of America. Responding to the study's mail survey were 377 out of 780 member agencies (48 percent return) and 327 out of 640 direct service CWLA agencies (51 percent return), including state…