The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 challenged vocational educators to set up meaningful services for persons with special needs. Pennsylvania vocational educators feel they have begun to accept this challenge. This report reviews the major programs that received funds for the disadvantaged in Pennsylvania under Public Law 90-576 during…

The 1972-73 school year Project VITALITY is described to provide coordinated work study career development for students in grades seven through 12 or equivalent ages who are legally assigned to the special programs, students in the Teen Mothers program, and those students dismissed from the educable mentally retarded program after August 1, 1969.…

Discusses programer job training programs, designed to give the knowledge, skills, and effective job experience required for placement in entry level business programing jobs, to chronically unemployed, low-income adults who lack marketable skills, but demonstrate the intelligence, competence, motivation, and temperament required to do…

An educational program designed to provide Kenyan villagers with skills useful and necessary at the local level is described. (DE)

The booklet is reported to be designed for use as a source book by individuals concerned with establishing special needs vocational education programs to train mentally and physically handicapped students in semi-skilled occupations. General considerations presented cover the goal of releasing human potential, overall objectives of the program,…

VEAP is an intensly personalized program that eases the handicapped students into what for them is a new environment, making them aware of their learning potential, and watching over them every step of the way through academic and vocational instruction into employment. (Author)

The report presents a resume of professional development projects in vocational education, supported pursuant to Section 553 of Part F of the Education Professions Development Act. The projects are listed by State, and the names and addresses of the State Director of Vocational Education and the State Part F Coordinator are cited for each State.…

Following an introduction to the rationale behind career education, six programs in Illinois are individually described. They are the Career Development for Children Project at Southern Illinois University, OCCUPAC at Eastern Illinois University, the ABLE model program at Northern Illinois University, and programs at Mattoon Community Unit No. 2,…

The author describes his experience with an educational audit at Laredo Junior College in Texas and says that the audit is a fast, inexpensive way of evaluating vocational programs that provides immediate feedback. (MF)

The survey was conducted for the following purposes: (1) to provide a sampling of successful vocational special needs programs throughout the country that were developed as the direct result of the motivation and support provided by PL-90-576 and (2) to make available to educators and other interested parties examples of vocational programs that…

Competency Based Education (CBE) is a system of instruction which holds that the learner has completed his preparation only when he effectively does the job he has been learning to do. Three major assumptions which form the basis for CBE are: (1) an educational program should prepare the student with competencies to effectively do the job he is…

This document reviews problems, alternatives, and recent developments in the education of prisoners. The authors state as a guiding argument that while inmates are severely handicapped according to traditional academic measures, in terms of the current movement in education towards individualized instruction nowhere is there a more fertile ground…

This document contains information on the vocational/career education programs which have been funded by the 1968 Vocational Amendments and Wisconsin's 17 vocational technical and adult education districts to provide services to special needs students. It is designed to assist teachers and administrators in the Vocational, Technical and Adult…