The ultimate objective of vocational guidance for public school youth should be appropriate job placement. Traditionally, public school guidance services have not included job placement. The purpose of this guide is to assist educators in accepting placement services as a technique for enhancing the vocational development of all high school youth.…

Systems technology has much to offer as a tool which can help counselors in guidance departments to develop their own goals, to establish their own priorities, and to develop monitoring techniques to evaluate their progress toward these ends. The lists of projects under development involving computers, printed materials, and multi-media materials…

The impetus for the study was provided by the widespread disagreement on the counselor's role and function as stated by counselors and administrators. Purposes included: (1) the provision of information about the counselor's role and function; (2) the resolution of confusion concerning the counselor's role; and (3) the improvement of communication…

This is one of a series which focuses on the use of human resources in guidance programs. Intended for use by school personnel workers, on all levels, to help in the development of new programs through actively working with other significant persons. This monograph discusses support personnel through the exploration of: (1) models of practice; (2)…

As one part of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III, a model of a guidance program that would integrate guidance efforts in the development of a long-range master plan of education for an urban school system is constructed and used as a standard of comparison for the present model in use at the Fresno City Unified School District. In the…

Test performance statistics and subsequent academic achievement data for Los Angeles City College (LACC), California, students entering in the fall of 1969 are reported in this study. The test performance statistics provide a relative comparison between achievement on the School and College Ability Test (SCAT), the Form 1A Reading Comprehension:…

Forty-seven books, articles, and reports published between 1960 and 1969 are cited in this bibliography about high-risk education for Appalachian youth. The titles are grouped into 4 categories: (1) general information sources, (2) characteristics of disadvantaged students, (3) college admissions and guidance, and (4) other related sources. The…

Reported are the first phase activities of a longitudinal project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of Guided Group Interaction (GGI) technique as a meaningful approach in the field of corrections. The main findings relate to the establishment of reliability for the main components of the Revised Behavior Scores System developed to assess the…

Remarks in this article were made as part of a panel discussion presented at the Planned Parenthood-World Population combined Southeast Council and National Board Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, in May 1970. The problems and consequences of an increasing birth rate are indicated along with the need for reducing present rates of population growth and…

This survey of elementary and secondary schools gathered information regarding the function of educational specialists. Four functions are analysed: remedial reading, guidance, psychological services, and library assistance. No real pattern evolved as to deployment of any one function at either school level. To examine the people with whom…

Some people are endowed with advantages which allow them to make full use of educational opportunities. Others, for one reason or another, become high-risk students with limited educational possibilities. Almost all students at some period of time are appropriately identified in the "high risk" category. A more effective method than those…

This paper presents a role model for the elementary school counselor. For purposes of this role model, elementary school guidance is viewed as both a concept (philosophy) and as a process (implementation). The process is the action or the implementation by which the concept or philosophy is realized. The aspect of the process which deals with…

The general purpose was to demonstrate by means of a pilot project what could be accomplished by providing guidance and counseling services conducted by itinerant counselors. A total of nineteen schools located in twelve counties participated. These counties are the southern-most counties in Illinois. A total of 432 boys and 397 girls were reached…

Sponsored by the Schools Council (an independent national body responsible for curriculum and examinations), the project has been concerned with devising new materials in career education for pupils and teachers. The basic philosophy of careers education is a continuous process that actively involves students in discovering individual…

This article suggests directions in which pupil personnel services should be moving. Specifically, pupil personnel workers should: (1) employ a team approach whenever possible, thereby focusing the talents of specialists from the various desciplines on the problems of the student; (2) serve as resource persons for teachers; (3) make more extensive…