The 1975-1976 year was the second year of a demonstration of the feasibility of a computerized retrieval system for providing occupational and educational information to students in City University of New York community colleges. Although first year results were encouraging in terms of counselor and staff reactions, the amount of computer use was…

The guide provides suggestions concerning possible solutions to specific career education implementation problems. Committee selection and organization are discussed in the first section. Then a detailed approach to a sequential system for program implementation is presented. The program consists of a precommitment stage, commitment stage, and an…

This survey provides a moderately detailed description of each of 13 projects funded under 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. Freedom High School is an alternative school. The Resource Room for Visually Impaired Children was established in 1972. The Remediating Motor Dysfunction project helps elementary school students to enter a…

This paper describes a career information center established in a secondary school as a demonstration guidance project. The center is managed by a full-time careers consultant and has been operational since 1974. The demonstration project is designed as a method of delivering career information and related services to students. Goals include…

A model developed by Research for Better Schools, Inc., the Academy for Career Education was an attempt to develop a "pure" transportable model of employer-based career education that provided a comprehensive secondary school education program for students. The year-round program, conducted at about 80 different locations in…

Research for Better Schools, Inc., a regional educational laboratory, is proceeding to develop an employer-based career education model in order to provide further definition and meaning to the concept. The model will be a private academic school, the Academy for Career Education, and will serve 100 11th grade students from Philadelphia. It will…

A broad educational background is necessary to meet ever changing occupational fields, and career education is an approach incorporating career information within the regular school curriculum. For the elementary level, career awareness is the main thrust in this program to integrate students and community. The introduction contains the format for…

A broad educational background is necessary to meet ever changing occupational fields, and career education is an approach incorporating career information within regular school curriculum. For the elementary level, career awareness is the main thrust in this program to integrate students and community. The format for grade five, performance…

A broad educational background is necessary to meet ever changing occupational fields, and career education is an approach incorporating career information within the regular school curriculum. For the elementary level, career awareness is the main thrust in this program to integrate students and community. The format for grade six, performance…

Reporting on typical career planning activities, the paper offers an overview of the approaches of four organizations: a public utility in southern California, the Adult Career Guidance Service in San Diego, the Systems Group of TRW, Incorporated, Redondo Beach, California, and the Naval Electronics Laboratory Center (NELC). Elaborating on the…

This report lists and explains detailed guidelines for the preparation and transmittal of student transcripts by secondary schools. The guidelines were established by the Cooperative for School/College Communication Studies, a group composed of representatives of eight professional organizations representing college admissions officers, community…

The San Francisco Unified School District compensatory education program for the school year 1968-69 offered services to low income students (pre-kindergarten through high school) in both public and non public schools. This evaluation report provides information on the effects of the pre-kindergarten, elementary, secondary, non public school,…

The Student Vocational Plan of Project ABLE has limited objectives which include student self-evaluation, investigation of the world of work, and the comparison of students' credentials to educational and vocational opportunities. For each of these objectives student activities were delineated for grades 7,8, and 9. The Plan includes a student kit…

The Youth Guidance Systems' (YGS) major goal is the encouragement and facilitation of considered decision making by every student. YGS seeks to establish goals, programs, and evaluation procedures which ensure continued change and relevance. Four goals have been stated for YGS (two student-centered and two staff-centered) to: facilitate decision…

Originally planned to open in the fall of 1965 under funding from the Office of Economic Opportunity, and continued over the years with State Act for Disadvantaged Children funds, Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) was from its inception conceived as a ninth grade center where a compensatory program would work. Despite its expansion from one team to a…