This report presents the results of a 5-year study conducted by governors and other state and local policymakers on education reform. It is intended for a general audience and offers advice on what it takes to implement comprehensive school reforms. The document elaborates on five lessons learned in implementing comprehensive school reform: (1)…

Discusses the problems in secondary education in Africa such as lack of adequate number of properly trained teachers, an insufficient number of schools, and an ineffective curriculum. (GB)

A prototype model for a planning, programing, and budgeting system. (Editor)

Suggests a new comprehensive health care relationship between patient and physician to educate the patient to understand mental and physical health and disease and how he can protect his own health. (IR)

Selected quotes from the Department of Education position paper on the integration of vocational and secondary general schools. (RT)

Reports on the United Kingdom's experience with comprehensive secondary education as a method of providing equal educational opportunity. Concludes that the trend toward compulsory equality, as represented by the comprehensive secondary school seems irreversible. (Author/IRT)

Describes a program of integrated services and treatment modalities for severely disturbed adolescents. (BD)

Explores ways in which the field of career guidance is unfolding. Focuses on the evolution in use and the definition of the term "career counseling" in the United States. Claims that career and personal counseling must combine to address many work-adjustment problems. Examines the results of such a combination. (RJM)

Comprehensive guidance and counseling programs (CGCPs) can play a valuable role in the development of multicultural student-citizens. Analysis of the key features of CGCPs and multicultural citizenship education appears to reveal a number of commonalities. Suggestions for school counselors on practically infusing multicultural citizenship…

Presents a model of comprehensive guidance and counseling integrated within a business context. Concludes that using program evaluation to position counseling as a business with effective service products may enhance the long-term viability of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs. (Contains 48 references.) (GCP)

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary…