Discusses the importance of pre-college, developmental remedial programs for students who lack adequate skills for success in the engineering technology study. A description of remedial course work in algebra, geometry, basic English, reading skills, and physical science is included. (CC)

At Ferris State College, the chemistry and physics related to the particular skill area of the technically-oriented student are taught. The assumption is that a student will better understand the elements of his trade if his experience is broadened through relevant science information. (KP)

This article describes in detail the design, testing, and implementation of an automated system to gather, process, and analyze followup data from occupational education programs in formats usable by local vocational administrators, to satisfy State and Federal accountability requirements and to assist State and local school personnel in…

Current results suggest the need to reconsider the rationale of attempts to reinforce the nutritional status of many Negro and some white school children through the continued heavy reliance on school milk programs, and its strong emphasis on milk consumption. Presented at the American School Health Association, October, 1972. (Author)

Common College serves the San Francisco bay area with an enrollment of excollege students and housewives. This experimental school makes connections between students' interests and opportunities by arranging classes, tutorials, and apprenticeships. It stresses work, travel, and time alone. (Author/PG)

Describes a master's degree program for the preparation of community-college biology teachers which has been developed by the biology department at Eastern Michigan University in close cooperation with neighboring community colleges. (JR)

Reviews Canadian anti-poverty programs according to which of five dimensions is dominant in their activities--biological and demographic, geographical and ecological, structural, psychological and cultural, and/or poverty-as-social-problem. (JM)

Article discussed efforts to personalize tasks geared to the level of learning, as well as the to interests and needs of each pupil. (Author/RK)

Funds made available through the Amendments to the Vocational Education Act are being used to determine the feasibility of sharing facilities and resources under a multi-purpose secondary occupational-vocational center concept in South Dakota. That state's program has been redesigned to meet the demands of both agriculture production and…

The author describes a program in which the families of migrant workers were educated, trained, and placed in permanent jobs. This program also provided health, counseling, and child care services. (RWP)

Attempts to design an experimental program for the training of a new generation of educational administrators, with the rationale being based on selected concepts and propositions of occupational sociology, organizational theory, and systems theory. (Author)

An experiment designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the native paraprofessional in foreign language instruction indicates significant positive results in language skills and cultural awareness of the target culture. (RL)

Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Washington, D.C., February 1972. (DD)