The trainer's guide, designed to be used in conjunction with a classroom teacher's handbook and resource guide for educators involved in planning and implementing bilingual education programs for new populations of limited English proficient (LEP) students, contains two parts. The first part addresses school administrators and examines the…

Published and unpublished literature is reviewed to identify and describe patterns of delivering vocational agriculture and home economics programs to students in small rural secondary schools. A conceptual model is developed based on patterns found in the literature. Non-school-based, school-based, and a combination of the two are identified as…

Eastern Michigan University is in the second year of a pilot program designed to promote law-related education and partnerships between the university and local communities. The collaborators in the project are the university, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, and the Taylor (Michigan) Public Schools. The goal of the project is to develop…

This report, a guide to 95 programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education, covers activities current as of September 30, 1985. Program profiles identify the enabling legislation, funding since 1981, the purpose of the program, and for some programs eligibility, strategies, and subprograms. Also specified for each program are: program…

In 1981, the developers of a school-based change effort engaged researchers to conduct an evaluation study employing qualitative methodology that would provide the developers with information that could be used to improve the program. Resource constraints, short timelines, and the developers' preference for useable information encouraged…

This document presents the plan for the conduct of eight case studies of federally and state-administered demonstration projects to assess the usefulness and practicality of a monograph discussing the improvement and measurement of the impact of vocational education demonstration projects. An introduction discusses the background and purpose of…

The research and development (R&D) projects funded by the Florida Division of Vocational Education are intended to have utility for vocational educators in their efforts to improve vocational education programs and practices. This project was conducted to determine why some R&D products are accepted by potential users while others are not…

A guide to 279 college and universities offering full-service programs for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities (LDs) is presented. An introductory section discusses what LDs are, what college students with LDs are like, why colleges began providing programs for these students, admissions and support after admission, and how high…

A proposal to create a state-funded work-study program for California postsecondary education is presented, including guidelines for program eligibility and responsibilities. The California Postsecondary Education Commission's proposal recommends: the use of both nonprofit and profit-making organizations as potential employers; employment that is…

The introduction of Drexel University's microcomputing program, which provides students access to this technology for coursework, is described, with attention to the groups who played a major role in preparing the university. Faculty helped set the initial direction of the program and have been central to its operation. Other faculty roles…

The study described in this report was conducted to identify the barriers and facilitators to establishing a system of linkages between vocational education and apprenticeship programs. Following an extensive review of literature that showed various barriers to linkages and described some facilitating steps, data were collected through an initial…

Using the Oklahoma State University (OSU) computerized community simulation model, extension professionals can provide local decision makers with information derived from an impact model that is dynamic, community specific, and easy to adapt to different communities. The four main sections of the OSU model are an economic account, a capital…

The in-service training program described in this report was implemented by the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC), Pennsylvania, in order to help vocational educators and administrators to develop skills in computer applications, software evaluation, and computer-based training. After providing background on the project, the report…

This publication describes 12 outdoor education programs/centers serving persons with disabilities in their program curriculum. Each program is described in detail and each description includes an overview of purposes and goals, facility/site description, administration structure, program emphasis for disabled populations, and source of funding…

This paper on designing and implementing a stress management program in the workplace begins by defining stress. A brief overview of the relationship of stress to health and personal style follows. The subsequent discussion of the relationship between stress and work focuses on these topics: work contributes to stress; stress affects work…