Describes a communications system for planning and carrying out guidance and counseling activities. The article stresses the importance of an adequate feedback system used by all participants and describes its relationship to counselor accountability. (Author)

A test designed for board members and administrators to rate and to learn more about their guidance programs. (JF)

The author offers a program for a group of irresponsible, uncommitted, unproductive, and generally maladjusted boys. The program aims at increased school attendance, improved grades, increased peer acceptance, decreased school suspension, increased willingness to accept legitimate authority and increased educational and vocational aspirations.…

A guidance dean discusses the new role of the counselor. Using a team approach, the guidance dean develops a priority of "job targets" in behavioral terms for aiding students. Evaluation is done by assessing his performance in achieving these job targets. (CG)

This description of the formation of local family life councils in North Carolina is offered for the guidance that it may provide others in establishing family life councils at the community level. Comments follow by J. Obert Kepson and Ruth H. Jewson. (Author)

In an attempt to provide vocational guidance services to all students, a differentiated staffing pattern is recommended. This program would use the services of four categories of personnel: (1) paraprofessional, (2) guidance teacher, (3) school counselor, and (4) specialist/coordinator. (SB)

Describes how guidance (counseling) was integrated into school life and involves all school personnel at a middle school. Discusses structures such as "home base" and interdisciplinary teams, as well as the middle school counselor's role. (SR)

Compares developments in Britain, France, and Germany, focusing on the trends toward marketing adult career guidance services. Describes how Germany's centralized system and the quasi-market based system in France might apply in Britain. (JOW)

Outlines the usefulness of discourse for guidance and counseling; explains how discourse can solve theory-practice problems. Maps and locates guidance and counseling practice in relation to six discourses: user, practitioner, professional, manager, policymaker, academic. Contains 39 references. (SK)

This document was developed to provide action steps that can be taken by teachers, parents, administrators, and students themselves to develop the personal, cognitive, and social dimensions of students. These advocates are identified in "The Holistic Learner Framework: A Culturally Responsive Approach to Accelerating the Achievement of Low…

The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project is the most comprehensive effort thus far to ascertain which approaches help welfare recipients and other low-income people stay steadily employed and advance in their jobs. Launched in 1999 and slated to end in 2009, the ERA project encompasses more than a dozen demonstration programs and…