This report lists and explains detailed guidelines for the preparation and transmittal of student transcripts by secondary schools. The guidelines were established by the Cooperative for School/College Communication Studies, a group composed of representatives of eight professional organizations representing college admissions officers, community…

The San Francisco Unified School District compensatory education program for the school year 1968-69 offered services to low income students (pre-kindergarten through high school) in both public and non public schools. This evaluation report provides information on the effects of the pre-kindergarten, elementary, secondary, non public school,…

The Student Vocational Plan of Project ABLE has limited objectives which include student self-evaluation, investigation of the world of work, and the comparison of students' credentials to educational and vocational opportunities. For each of these objectives student activities were delineated for grades 7,8, and 9. The Plan includes a student kit…

The Youth Guidance Systems' (YGS) major goal is the encouragement and facilitation of considered decision making by every student. YGS seeks to establish goals, programs, and evaluation procedures which ensure continued change and relevance. Four goals have been stated for YGS (two student-centered and two staff-centered) to: facilitate decision…

Originally planned to open in the fall of 1965 under funding from the Office of Economic Opportunity, and continued over the years with State Act for Disadvantaged Children funds, Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) was from its inception conceived as a ninth grade center where a compensatory program would work. Despite its expansion from one team to a…

The goal of the English as a Second Language (ESL) program, partially funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is to help youngsters master the oral and written skills of English which are necessary for success in an English-speaking mainstream education. Since the non-English speaking youngster attends an ESL class for…

Designed to assist Computerized Vocational Information System (CVIS) users in evaluating projects in local secondary school sites, the handbook provides users with a variety of variables or viewpoints from which to assess the CVIS system. Four different approaches are presented to CVIS evaluation: the analysis of use patterns; the reaction of…

The College Bound (CB) Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was designed to improve the reading and arithmetic skills and raise the academic level of students from poverty areas of the city and help them gain admission to college. During the academic year 1972-73 the program was conducted at 32 high schools…

This publication is designed to serve school administrators interested in reviewing the key administrative concepts relative to cooperative vocational education. The document identifies the various types of cooperative programs, the advantages of cooperative education, and the major limiting factors related to the administration of these programs.…

Discussions with council members, a review of relevant documents, contacts with legislative personnel, and interviews with vocational personnel in the California State Department of Education were the sources of information used to determine the feasibility of a "career ladder" curriculum. It was concluded that the career preparation of all people…

Programs described in this booklet, the 1970 annual report of the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, are indicative of some of the services and opportunities for foreign students studying in the United States. Counseling services available to the foreign students and orientation procedures for incoming students are…

This study was made to determine whether the Southern California Regional Occupational Center was attracting low-motivated students, to find ways to reach more such students, and to identify factors in the guidance program that contributed to its success. The project's objective was to develop a guidance model to better assist students in…

In the 1969-70 school year, 26 of the 30 local school districts and the three demonstration school districts in New York City submitted proposals for the organization of projects to be funded under ESEA Title I programs. An analysis of the district proposals, supplemented by field investigation, indicated that 21 of the local school districts had,…

The original Higher Horizons Program or HH 100, was established in 1965 as a ninth grade compensatory model which could be used to demonstrate that some of the more salient ravages of educational deprivation could be corrected effectively, and at the high school level. So as to demonstrate that secondary school compensatory education could…

Because the elementary years are years of curiosity and inquiry, trial and exploration, and relative freedom from prejudice, this is the natural time for developing appropriate career foundations in students. This publication was designed to suggest guidelines for meeting these opportunities through career guidance and is intended for use in the…