The career education program in Santa Barbara has found social studies appropriate and desirable as a vehicle through which the teacher can assist the student to learn more about the world and some of the alternative career choices he can make. (Author/KM)

Experimental programs in Covinia Valley School District have successfully incorporated career education into the secondary social studies program through refocussing a number of classroom units along the principels of awareness, planning, preparation, and decision making. (Author/KM)

A proposed series of seminars would study the local community, its concrete issues and upcoming choices concerning these issues and would get the results into the hands of as many citizens as possible. (Author/KM)

Discussed the concept of career education and the educational features of vocational-technical schools. (RK)

This paper is addressed to three major themes related to career education in Europe among which was the contrasts seen in the context of career education as one views its processes in Europe and in the United States. (Author/RK)

Presents a description of Family Group Consultation and its application to a parent program. Discusses structure, issues and value of the model. (Author)

Describes a program at a community college in Bronx, New York in which English instructors and content area teachers work together to improve the writing of students needing remedial instruction. (RB)

Discusses problems encountered by Soviet society in socializing children during a period of rapid industrialization, and the methods and programs developed to deal with these problems. (CS)

Describes a journalism program in news reporting at Northern Illinois University which is televised over the educational public access channel provided by the cable company operating in DeKalb. (RB)

Learning experiences from the technological components of elementary science education in Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania are described. (Author/KM)

The implementation of the Children's Art Carnival Creative Reading Program in New York City is evaluated in terms of the services it was designed to provide to 210 Title I eligible children in grades 2 to 5 who were at least one grade behind in reading. Children in the program attended the Art Carnival twice a week and received instruction from…

The Program for Institutionalized Children in New York City provided reading and/or mathematics instruction for 624 Title I eligible pupils in grades one through twelve in 12 institutions for neglected, abused, or delinquent children. The program operated for seven weeks with approximately 15 hours of instruction weekly. Small group instruction or…

This document presents abstracts describing 25 needs assessment projects appropriate for a variety of educational levels. The abstracts provide an overview of each model as well as information on the developer, source, cost, copyright, procedures for use, implementation needs, and special features. (IRT)

Approximately 217 students in grades 1 to 3 of the Berlin public and parochial school systems participated in this bilingual program. Seventy percent of the students were either from French speaking families or had a French ethnic and cultural background. The goals of the program were outlined as follows: (1) to continue to design, develop, and…