In 1996, the City of Phoenix Enterprise Community Job Linkages Initiative sought to increase employment by matching local people with local jobs. Evaluation of the second project at Friendly House found that Friendly House, during the 18 months of the grant, increased residents' employability skills and linked them with Enterprise Community…

The report describes both the problems faced and the strategies that have been implemented to resolve some of the problems in the Distance Learning Program at Tomball College in Texas. An examination of their Distance Education (DE) Program revealed multifaceted problems: instructor incompetence and curriculum inconsistency; student…

Discusses the goals, strategy, and outcomes of eight 2-day regional forums which focused on the role industrial arts education could play in cooperation with other groups to move toward solving some of our sociological and technological problems. (SB)

"A laboratory, a studio, and a forum, a place where the rational and the romantic can exist side by side, is the way the author describes the social studies classroom he wishes to see evolve. His provocative article discusses concrete ways of educating prospective teachers to become a vital part of this setting. (Editor)

Behavioral, educational, and organizational methods for improving the degree to which workers comply with the objectives of industrial health promotion programs are discussed. Compliance can be enhanced through: (1) better program location and scheduling; (2) increased worker satisfaction; (3) use of psychological and educational techniques; and…

In teacher education's current atmosphere of challenge, perplexity, and moral and intellectual crisis, there are at least three responses: (1) technicist, involving a strategic retreat into scientism and machines, laboratories, and computers; (2) Mandarin, involving traditional centers of learning among books and inspirational prose; and (3)…

Principals can improve programs by becoming science advocates (to teachers, students, and parents), constructing and pushing a science curriculum plan, ensuring annual funds for science materials, providing needed inservice experiences, monitoring the program, and handling likely problems. A 73-item checklist is provided for evaluating current…

This essay discusses the federal role in the improvement of educational practice nationally and at the local level, the role and influence of federal or other national program evaluations on local curriculum decisions, and the differences in role perceptions between federal and local school district officials. (CT)

The author suggests that the failure of traditional prevention programs may be one of the reasons for the rising consumption rate of alcohol in Canada. He makes several suggestions for improving alcohol education programs. (SJL)

Input from the vocational advisory committee and from the student employment segment of the educational program are effective in identifying what the needs of industry are. (LRA)

Critiques the "Report of the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies." It is indicated that the crux of the national problem was overlooked. A proposal is made that a six-year program of coordinated language instruction is possible and would accomplish the result desired by the Commission. (Author/AMH)

Discusses a follow-up study of graduates of Wisconsin's vocational, technical, and adult education system. The resulting data have been used for interpretation of program/student success, decision making, responding to labor market needs and projections, and for student recruitment. (JOW)

People in all urban areas want a well-balanced system of urban recreation opportunities which include neighborhood facilities and programs for all segments of the population. Federal programs must immediately consider and attempt to improve the present state of urban recreation and park programs. (CJ)

Twenty-five University of Alabama student teachers and 25 cooperating teachers were asked to identify special needs required to make the student teaching experience in special education successful. Majority responses are listed for communications between student teacher, cooperating teacher, and college supervisor, plus needed teaching and job…