This manual and curriculum guide describe the steps in the development of a workplace English program for hotel housekeepers, offers methods for needs assessment, outlines a curriculum, provides reproducible hands-on classroom activities designed to practice the concepts of the curriculum and to trigger teachers' imaginations, and offers general…

The Co-operative Education Department at Mohawk College is designed to extend the academic learning process into the workplace through on-the-job learning experiences which enhance the students' vocational maturation and personal development, and are integrated with the learning objectives of the program. The department offers paid, supervised…

In 1990, a research study was conducted to discover which variables students identified as being significant to their academic success, first at Mt. San Antonio Community College (MSAC), then after they transferred to the California State University (CSU) or to the University of California (UC). An important goal of the study was to determine if…

Designed to help teachers, this curriculum guide outlines a field trip eighth-grade students take to visit a Florida student museum. Objectives for student learning as well as pre- and post-visit activities are included. Three lesson plans also are suggested: pioneer room, being an historian, and pioneer crafts. The student museum curriculum also…

Developed under mandate by the Master Plan Commission, this report reviews the organization and governance of the California community colleges and offers recommendations regarding structures and processes. Part I provides an introduction to the need for the study of governance and organizational problems and offers a summary of findings drawn…

A follow-up survey was conducted at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster (USCL) of students enrolled during fall semesters from 1971 through 1977. A 25-item questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of 400 of the 1,439 students enrolled during the period, requesting information on major, reason for enrolling, semester hours completed,…

A resource and activity guide for the developmentally disabled that focuses on fine motor skills is presented. Attention is directed to fine motor behavior during the first year (vision, grasp, and release and reaching), and behaviors developing at 13 months (the interaction of fine motor and cognitive skills). An introductory section considers…

This report presents the evaluation of the 1984-85 Special Education Training and Resource Center Program (SETRC) of the Division of Special Education of the New York City Public Schools. The program provided training activities to: (1) support the transition to new state regulations by training special and general educational personnel; (2) meet…

A study of summer sessions at U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities was conducted in 1985. A stratified random sample of 213 U.S. public and private institutions included research universities, doctoral-granting institutions, and comprehensive colleges and universities; all 10 Canadian institutions were featured in the study. A total of 184…

Using as its premise that access and excellence are mutually interdependent goals for urban community colleges, this monograph considers the direction and nature of programmatic responses to the needs of the constituencies of urban two-year colleges and the direction and quality of the research efforts required to measure institutional impact on…

This report presents selected quotations and major points representing the views of educators, policymakers, and specialists in the areas of economic and social development on the subject of the purposes of vocational education in the secondary schools. The material was collected during a year-long review of current studies of secondary schools,…

Thirty leaders from six Canadian social movements were invited to participate in an invitational seminar that was designed to explore strategies for building stronger collaboration among social movements in the Canadian community. This collection contains the following papers from that seminar: "Building the Social Movement: An…

A project was developed for the seventh- and eighth-grade student population to make available a computer-based program that provides specific prerequisite course data as well as electives to careers chosen by the students. The original areas of interest were defined by the student through use of a survey instrument and the initial course…

The 12th annual report to Congress from the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE) details activities during fiscal year 1985 and is dedicated to all Indian youth who benefit from any federal programs that support Indian education and those Indian youths lost from the Wind River Indian Reservation because of suicide. Part I contains…

During 1983-84, in the final year of a 3-year funding cycle, the Native American Education Program provided after-school and summer session instruction and supportive services to approximately 500 Native American grade K-12 students scattered throughout New York City. The program was administered by the New York City Public Schools' Office of…