Profiles prepared by U. S. Office of Education staff members.

At Michigan State University, a "hands on" approach to the advertising campaigns course has proven successful. The course is limited to 25 students who work in groups of five to develop and prepare an advertising campaign for a client who has agreed to provide information and funds for the course and who in return will get a plans book…

This guide is intended to assist adults working with youth in projects to improve the natural environment of their communities. Two types of environmental projects are described: (1) information projects and (2) work projects. Information projects involve youth in gathering information and then communicating it to the public and to community…

THIS STUDY INCLUDED 75 BOYS AND 67 GIRLS WHO HAD BEEN RESIDENTS SINCE GRADE 1 IN 10 WISCONSIN COMMUNITIES AND WHO HAD BEEN 4-H CLUB MEMBERS AT SOME TIME DURING THIS PERIOD. THREE HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED WITH 19 VARIABLES GROUPED UNDER 3 HEADINGS--(1) EDUCATIONAL, (2) SOCIOECONOMIC, AND (3) TEACHER RATING FACTORS. THE FINDINGS REVEAL THAT THERE ARE…

Presented is a guide for helping secondary school students investigate the litter problem, acquire litter control skills, and develop an anti-litter ethic. The manual contains a hierarchy of learning objectives, a pretest/posttest, background information on litter, and activities keyed to the learning objectives. Each lesson includes brief…

This report of a 2-week workshop contains 12 papers presented by their authors, four business presentations, and 12 group and 25 individual projects. The papers pertain to the application of the project method, objectives and use of projects, and preparing culturally deprived students. The business presentations relate to advertising, credit,…

A program designed for those students with varied skills, talents, and abilities who feel the present courses of study are not meeting their needs, the Communication Arts Curriculum is based on an approach to learning in which each student selects his or her own learning activity, assembles the resources, and participates in personal evaluation.…

The document explains how to integrate the project training methods into a distributive education curriculum for grades 10 or 11. The purpose of this teacher's manual is to give an overall picture of the project method in use. Ten sample projects are included which could apply to any distributive education student concentrating on the major areas…

An account of Tarrant Count Junior College's participation in the American Association of Junior Colleges' Social Science Demonstration Project was presented. The purpose of the project was to involve introductory sociology students in the use of the community as a laboratory to enliven the teaching-learning experience and develop in students a…

Project H.E.L.P. is a promise to youth that we do care and that we will show we do. However, in innovating a program for dropouts, many concerns arise, as more difficulties arise. These areas of concern are: (1) the widespread adoption of the innovation which could take place only with the backing and support of the school board and administrative…

The Far West Laboratory Model (Far West School) in downtown Oakland, California, an employer-based career education program of experiential learning, has focused on the developmental issues of how high school academic requirements and career exploration in the community can be integrated into a common set of learning activities, and the virtues…

This semester-length guide for high school distributive education students is geared to start the student thinking about the vocation he would like to enter by exploring one area of interest in marketing and distribution and then presenting the results in a research paper known as an area of distribution manual. The first 25 pages of this document…

The Philadelphia Student Health Organization Summer Health Project had as a purpose to collect information relevant to the following categories: (1) descriptions of new kinds of cooperative arrangements; (2) descriptions of features of community organizations; (3) description of the health status of poor populations; (4) evaluation of the present…