This study documents the positive impact o f a career planning course on students at a Washington State Community College. (Author)

Resume of several articles that have been written about performance contracts. Articles discuss its history, various facets of performance contracting, favorable positions on it, reasons for opposing it and measurement problems connected with it. (RB)

President of the Washington, D.C. Teachers' Union presents the Union's recommendations for short range solutions to their extensive educational problems in testimony before the Senate Public Health, Education, Welfare, and Safety Committee on the District of Columbia. (DM)

For the group of trainees studied, results show that regardless of the length of the program, only marital status and education were found to differ significantly between the graduates and dropouts. Age, stability of employment and number of dependents were significant for long term programs; pretraining level of education for short term programs.…

Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes receives an AVA Citation for outstanding service to vocational education. Although he completed his term in office in early 1971, he will continue working for expanded vocational training opportunities for American youth. (Editor)

The fiscal 1971 Office of Education budget stresses innovation but promises little or no new money. Aspects of the budget are presented. (MF)

Teachers should recognize that a wide range of ability and academic achievement in a classroom is normal, always present, and desirable. Such a range will not discourage or humiliate the slow-learner, but encourage him to proceed at his own pace. (NH)

A study of 17 dropout prevention programs identified these common characteristics of successful programs: (1) multiple strategies integrated within a single program, (2) placement in environments dissimilar to traditional schools, (3) concentration of resources on a small target population, and (4) emphasis on vocational education and work…

Examined the differences between the home environment and college environment and the personal and academic characteristics of persisting (N=201) and nonpersisting (N=165) students at a major midwestern university. Develops recommendations and guidelines for colleges and universities to help curtail the college dropout problem. (PAS)

Questions (N=40) were tested for their ability to discriminate compatible roommates. A stepwise discriminant analysis selected 15 items for inclusion in a discriminant function that, when used to reclassify pairs, was 90 percent accurate. The question that contributed most to discriminating the groups was weekday bedtime. (Author)

Risks are taken in establishing alternative school programs but they can be minimized by giving the proper attention to several critical factors. (Author)

In Elizabethton (Tennessee) a separate program with one teacher keeps some high school students from dropping out and helps improve their attendance. (Author/MLF)

Describes four core elements of the Wai'anae High School Hawaiian Studies Program (HSP): contextualization of instruction within students' backgrounds; joint productive activity between teachers, students, and community mentors; detracking of students; and teaming and looping of teachers. The HSP is a community-based, culturally contextualized…

States early school leaving is a protracted educational problem throughout the world. Examines early school leaving from the position of young Australians (n=209) who left school or were considering leaving. Provides tentative theorizing traversing aspects of the cultural geography of high school as partial explanation of what is occurring. (BT)