The Second Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory Councils on Vocational Education was held in Washington, D.C. on May 1-2, 1970. Attended by representatives of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, the meeting dealt with the Councils' mutual activities and problems. Of particular importance to the assembled group…

The Third Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory Councils on Vocational Education was held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 1970. Attended by representatives of 47 states, the meeting dealt with mutual activities and with legislation affecting vocational education. Special attention during the meeting was focused on proposed manpower…

Intended for school administrators, Boards of Education, special education coordinators, and teachers, the handbook contains information about the Special Education services of the Virginia State Department of Education and provides guidelines for the organization of various kinds of programs for handicapped children by local school divisions. The…

This first annual report inventories the major state manpower programs during the past year and discusses the objectives of comprehensive manpower planning, with emphasis on a series of legislative and administrative recommendations. The contributions of various manpower systems are discussed, including the Cooperative Area Manpower Planning…

From 1968 to 1969 the EPRC focused on: staff development, definition of a specific research program, and development of methods to deal with educational policy issues in the context of longrange futures. The research program of the center is organized around educational futures and policy planning. Specific methods include Delphi techniques, goal…

This consortium of liberal arts colleges was instrumental in developing and coordinating their research capability through data processing. Forty research and academic development projects were undertaken. Of special importance: The Pass-Fail System, Study Habits in the Three-three calendar, Changing Trends in Attrition, The Weighing of High…

This report, a clear statement of how one district developed a planning system, offers both a theoretical and a practical approach to providing the superintendent, his staff, and the board of education with a comprehensive planning system instrument for making policy decisions and allocating resources. Also provided are guidelines for involving…

The study involved the development of an experimental vocational education program for emotionally disturbed and brain-injured adolescents in a public school. Subjects were 29 boys, ages 14-21 years, enrolled in special classes for the emotionally disturbed and brain-injured. The program embodied three levels of training: prevocational…

Successful bilingual programs depend on some understanding of the language situation involved, the possible strategies of bilingual education, the effects of these strategies, the assessment of community desires, the best ways to find and train teachers, the method of evaluating curriculum, the effect of learning styles, and the possibilities of…

Eighty individuals attended a workshop which provided an opportunity to consider strategies and develop guidelines for improving and expanding vocational education opportunities for disadvantaged youth and adults. Presentations included in the document are: (1) "Handicapped and Disadvantaged Sections of Public Law 90-576" by John Wyllie, (2)…

Prepared by the State Department of Vocational Education, this handbook is for school administrators, coordinators and teachers to use in planning, establishing and conducting cooperative vocational education programs. The basic purpose of the cooperative program is to provide occupational training through the use of business and industrial…

This report is meant to be a tool for the recognition and resolution of a major concern at Los Angeles City College--vocational education programs for the disadvantaged. It is intended to help the college develop programs in which the disadvantaged can successfully function and from which he can enter the world of work as a competent and skilled…

This report presents a limited cross-section of environmental problems and of the actions beginning to be taken to cope with these problems. Its objectives are to: (1) outline progress in environmental improvement programs since the 1965 White House Conference on Natural Beauty, (2) present proposals and recommendations which will stimulate…

To improve the educational services to the handicapped and disadvantaged youth of the County, the characteristics of the national population with special needs and the employment opportunities ultimately available to them are reported. The study focuses on appropriate guidelines to develop special programs to increase and improve the educational…

The Allied Health Professions Projects (AHPP) of the Division of Vocational Education, University of California, Los Angeles, are currently conducting research and development in the allied health occupations in order to design instructional materials of a unique and innovative nature for use in preparing workers for a veriety of allied health…