This 52-week Tuskegee Institute project, undertaken in 1964 to train a sample of culturally deprived male heads of households in Alabama, included vocational skills (brickmasonry, carpentry, farm machinery, and meat processing), academic skills (mathematics, English, and remedial reading), group, individual, and family counseling, medical care,…

Part 1 of this conference report on employing the hard-core unemployed asserts the urgency of action by business and industry to meet employment problems, and presents examples of more active recruitment and liberalized hiring and placement practices, employer-sponsored education and training, efforts by employers to take action on transportation,…

Written for employers, personnel directors, vocational rehabilitation personnel, placement specialists, and all others involved in helping the mentally handicapped find their rightful place in the world of work, these guidelines discuss significant factors to consider when employing or seeking employment for the mentally handicapped. These factors…

This publication on staffing and staff development is the fifth in a six-part series describing the Management Organization Systems Technique (MOST) developed at Wayne County Community College. The purpose of MOST is to determine the goals and objectives of a college and assist in their attainment and evaluation. The staffing and staff development…

CHOICE, Center for Helping Organizations Improve Choice in Education, has four primary purposes: (1) to collect and make available to the higher education community knowledge and materials relating to the provision of better information to college applicants; (2) to provide technical assistance to institutions seeking to review or improve the…

Two approaches to the problem of abusive advertising practices engaged in by some institutions of higher education are illustrated in two documents. The first involves government regulation of potential and actual abuse, the other encourages voluntary efforts through the development of models for good practice. The first document, Categories and…

A study was done to (1) examine the impact of terminating the G.I. Bill in respect to the number, quality, and representativeness of Service accessions (supply of volunteers for military services), and (2) provide a means for measuring the relative costs and benefits of alternative educational programs which might be needed to sustain military…

This review focuses on women in educational administration as compared with men in the same field. The author recognizes sex discrimination as a historical fact and begins by discussing some of the current psychological effects of cultural conditioning. She then examines the role of the counselor dealing with high school seniors who express an…

The primary purpose of this practicum was to investigate, identify, record, recommend, and test resolutions to the problem of educational/community resistance to alternative education in general and, more specifically, to identify and resolve as many of the educational/community resistance phenomena and facts as surround Nova High School. Problem…

The report of the conference proceedings of the Southern Region Research Conference in Agricultural Education has summarized the presentations of 17 speakers. Some topics covered were: private foundation grantsmanship; problems of agricultural teacher reciprocity, certification, and recruiting; pre-teacher attitudes; follow-up studies of…

The project attempted to involve uneducated and undereducated and/or unemployed and underemployed young adults in an education-tutorial-employment oriented program. The report discusses the result of a review of the project's efforts and suggests changes where needed to achieve sound and humane urban-oriented educational practices. The program was…

This annotated bibliography contains 192 items on program planning, educational trends, legislation, and other matters within or relevant to the preparation of adult educators. General topics and national surveys appear in two brief opening chapters. The next two deal with formal education through graduate study and short courses, and with the…

The social-psychological bases of programs to prepare teachers for disadvantaged youth are as important to the eventual success of the program as any technique or lesson plan which seems to be momentarily fruitful. In view of the predicted oversupply of teachers, the school system must try to select teachers who will function best in the…

Funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the La Puente, California, continuation education project investigated (1) attitudes of former students concerning the success of the school in preparing them for entry into military service, (2) the minimal skills and knowledge required by each of the armed forces, (3)…

To compare the physical medicine departments of selected vocationally oriented rehabilitation centers with each other and with centers that are primarily oriented toward physical restoration, six facilities were studied. Conclusions were as follow: nearly all physical medicine departments have staffing problems; quality of service appears…