Planned for a K-12 school with 84 students and a full-time instructional staff of 8, including a teaching principal, the North Haven Project for Career Development (North Haven Island, Maine) is described in the context of its small, geographically isolated community. Though offered primarily as a program developed to meet a specific community's…

This guide represents an effort at identifying resources in the Chicago area that are related to multicultural and multiethnic education. The guide was compiled by students at the University of Illinois. The educational value of the process of compilation of the guide is discussed. The training of compilers and the research methodology used are…

One of three modules which form a model using a multi-media approach for an education department or teacher educator to infuse career education concepts into the pre-service curriculum, this module is designed to provide student teachers with a diversity of techniques, processes and materials that will enable them to incorporate comprehensive…

This supplement to a source book providing information on developing a training program for mentally handicapped adults describes in detail group counseling and community experience components. It offers concrete information emanating from the East Brunswick (New Jersey) Adult Mentally Handicapped Program. The first section overviews the current…

This guide to the use of PAK materials is the first of the five-part Comprehensive Community-Based Services for Offenders Information PAK that provides guidelines for developing a system to improve ex-offender service delivery. (Parts 2 and 3, which also contain printed information, are available separately.) The first section discusses the need…

Financial and policy discrimination in favour of urban areas has been accompanied by a decline in provision for youth in rural areas of England, resulting in deprivations of opportunity, mobility, and household. Lack of public transport and the escalating costs of motoring are the most important factors in depriving rural youth access to…

The nine modules in the program described here are designed to enhance the professional competency of teachers interested in learning how to use instructional strategies to promote individualized instruction. The approximate time required for completion of this competency based program is 42 hours. A module instructor is needed as a resource…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on consumer use of the community is the first in a set of six modules on consumer education related to housing. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019 901-967.)…

A three-year project was conducted to study mid-career changes and the educational and training needs of these adults. Two key elements of social and economic development were studied: (1) mid-career students, including their characteristics, goals, and education/training needs; and (2) the environments for learning and retraining created by…

This monograph shares experiences of participants in a series of fifteen "miniconferences" for local K-12 career education coordinators held January-July 1979 regarding community involvement in the delivery of career education. Six sections describe specific examples of how particular communities have, to date, responded to a call for involvement…

This package is the sixth of twelve in the Skills for Adult Guidance Educators (SAGE) system, which provides instruction in a set of necessary competencies specifically designed for adult education counselors, teachers, and paraprofessionals. The materials provide a process for developing and implementing counseling and guidance programs unique to…

A STUDY SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT VOTERS WOULD GIVE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS IF THEY WERE FULLY INFORMED OF NEEDS, AND WHETHER CURRENT COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES WERE ADEQUATE IN EFFECTIVELY INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF SCHOOL NEEDS. SPECIFIC VOTER AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS WERE EXPLORED AS THEY RELATE TO…

TO EVALUATE STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS OF SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RELATIONS, 860 VARIABLES WERE DEFINED FROM THE LITERATURE AND GROUPED INTO 26 DIVISIONS FOR ASSESSMENT AGAINST FOUR SUMMARY CRITERION VARIABLES--(1) ACQUIESCENCE, THE DEGREE TO WHICH VOTERS IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT VIEW FINANCIAL ISSUES FAVORABLY, (2) PARTICIPATION, THE DEGREE TO WHICH VOTERS…

THE INTERAMERICAN CONSULTATION ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT WAS ORGANIZED BY THE ADULT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES, UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (AID). REPRESENTATIVES FROM EIGHT LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES, THE UNITED STATES, AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE PEACE CORPS, UNESCO, UN, AND AID ATTEMPTED…

BUSINESS HAS A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR ITS EMPLOYEES SINCE IT PROFITS FROM THE FACT THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME AN EDUCATION STATE, WITH THE INCREASED EDUCATION OF THE LABOR FORCE ACCOUNTING FOR 23 PERCENT OF ECONOMIC GROWTH BETWEEN 1929 AND 1957, AND SINCE BUSINESS ITSELF HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE CRISIS IN EDUCATION BY INSISTING…