This guide is intended to stimulate the interest of school administrators and to provide them with the management skills necessary to improve and initiate effective vocational education programs in their communities. It is divided into nine topic areas: introduction, federal legislation, certification, advisory committees, partnerships, promotion,…

Mental patients from the local hospital and the community mental health/mental retardation (MH/MR) center are being helped to reenter community life through classes at Odessa College (Texas). Twice a week, patients who have been stabilized enough to attend day care at the MH/MR center, together with aides, are bused to the community college's…

A comprehensive national plan is needed to reverse the declining enrollment and employment of blacks in higher education. Over the last decade, government policies such as cuts in financial aid and the erosion of Head Start, child care, and other programs that benefit the poor have contributed to the negatives trends in minority enrollment. In…

A descriptive profile is provided of Monroe Community College (MCC). Section I offers background information on the history, purpose, and facilities of the college. Section II contains a brief profile of MCC's service area, looking at the population and quality of life in Rochester, New York, and examining the school's relationship to the…

In 1988 Norway House Indian Band in Manitoba, Canada, will assume control of education for its young people, a move which is supported by 80% of its adult members. With an immediate enrollment of 800 students and predicted growth in enrollments, the Band has the potential to develop a high quality educational program at reasonable cost. The Band…

Materials and suggestions are provided for inservice activities to help elementary and secondary school teachers use community resources to enhance classroom experiences. Section I contains reprints of two articles promoting teacher involvement with community resources. This section also lists objectives and the rationale for using community…

A study was conducted to determine Liberty Baptist College's impact on the Lynchburg area in the 1980 fiscal year. Three impact areas were studied: local businesses, governments, and individuals. Local construction expenditures of $5.6 million, additional college-related expenditures of other affiliated organizations, and several other peripheral…

Issues and problems associated with university involvement in public sector activities and the knowledge transfer process are examined. After a brief statement of the state-of-the-art in knowledge transfer, attention is directed to one of the basic issues presented in the literature: the appropriateness and inappropriateness of university…

The materials in this manual are designed to help workshop leaders prepare for and present a workshop for school board members on managing conflict in the conduct of educational governance. The workshop helps board members develop and apply a framework for understanding conflict and introduces alternative approaches for managing it. The manual…

This report presents information on a cooperative agricultural education program conducted between the Kern Community College District and the Kern High School District which was designed to improve agricultural education and respond to the needs of local agricultural employers. Introductory material presents a history of relations between the…

Although Delaware's educational system is in many ways rising to the challenge posed by the recent national reports on education, the Governor's Task Force on Education for Economic Growth has recommended several improvements. Appointed in July 1983, the task force held public hearings, obtained data by questionnaire, sought expert testimony,…

This companion document providing basic information for general educators and other community persons to increase their awareness and understanding of how to meet the needs of handicapped youth in the school-to-work transition, five other companion documents, and an inservice guide comprise a series developed for assisting disabled persons in…

This paper discusses the St. Luke's-Area III Learning Center, which deals with problems of urban youth. Its operational model coordinates instructional activities of the Atlanta Public Schools with Social Services of numerous governmental agencies of the Atlanta area, along with business, civic, and religious groups. The learning center provides a…

This report describes a two-year research project dealing with the relationship between parents and caregivers in group child care settings. The purposes of the research were to describe the nature of the interpersonal relationships, to identify variables predictive of interactions, and to examine the degree of congruence in child-rearing beliefs.…

In this history and analysis of Federal educational projects in the Anacostia area of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1977 the origins and development of the Anacostia Community School Project (1967-72) and its successor, the Response to Educational Needs Project (1972-77) are described. The requirements of implementation studies are…