Concluding that Iowa women are suffering more and in greater numbers than before, this report contains testimony from the 1983 public hearings initiated by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women. Each section contains background information and testimony from women who have had firsthand experience of poverty--such as female…

Articles dealing with instructional approaches, faculty development, and student needs are presented. The 1984-85 collection includes: "An Evolving Partnership: The Community College-Secondary School Connection," by Cornelius V. Robbins; "What If Willy Loman Worked for You," by Paul W. Brennan; "Day Care Centers: The Versatile Student Support…

The Science Careers Program consists of 12 activities aimed at increasing the career relevance of science education for all students in grades 4 through 9, while at the same time particularly encouraging female and minority students to consider careers in science and engineering. This set of resource materials is available to help teachers in…

This program (which consists of 12 activities) is aimed at increasing the career relevance of science education for all students in grades 4 through 9, while at the same time particularly encouraging female and minority students to consider careers in science and engineering. Major areas addressed in the activities are: (1) students' images of…

This annual report presents the accomplishments of Jefferson College in the area of student services for 1983-84, and identifies areas of concern and ways these concerns are to be addressed in 1984-85. Introductory material provides an overview of some of the most important accomplishments of the student services division, including: (1) the…

These 11 papers consider the older learner as a consumer of education and examine how the concepts of education, educators, institutions, and learners must be revised if educational involvement in later life is to be regarded as the norm. Following a prologue, "Education and the Interpretation of Life Experience" (Michel Philibert), the…

Objectives of this assessment of Pennsylvania's vocational programs for the handicapped were to describe and evaluate the programs' impact and explore the local capability for offering vocational program services to the handicapped. Study methodology was guided by 23 evaluation questions representing five major study components: problems and…

This inservice guide and six companion documents comprise a series developed for assisting disabled persons in their transition from secondary and postsecondary vocational education to work. The model is designed to prepare support teams of school-community persons. This guide is intended for use by the field coordinator, administrator, and/or any…

The purpose of this project was to integrate into the leadership curriculum and instructional program in Pennsylvania the competencies needed to assist in mainstreaming handicapped students. The project also sought to provide inservice education to administrators and support personnel in comprehensive, vocational, and special education settings…

The status of institutional efforts to overcome physical barriers for the handicapped is reviewed in this bulletin, based on SREB-sponsored questionnaire responses of representatives from southern colleges and universities. Recommondations for planning new construction or modifying existing facilities are offered, with some emphasis on using…

The second annual report to Congress describes the status of several current, federally-sponsored driver education programs. These programs are designed for: young beginning drivers (high school students), drinking drivers, other problem drivers, motorcyclists, and physically handicapped drivers. Plans for future programs are described and the…

Provided is the replication manual for the PARADE (Projects Advancing Reading Achievement and Developing Ego-Strength) project, a program designed to identify and diagnose reading problems in elementary and secondary level students entering a new school, provide an intensive program of prescriptive training, and aid the child in development of…

Various forms of bias in the British higher education system are examined in ten papers presented at a conference on "Biases in Higher Education." After an introduction by David Warren Piper, Tyrrell Burgess links the Popperian paradigm of scientfic method to the practical possibility of a nonexclusive education system. In "Bias Is…

This curriculum guide was designed for use in postsecondary masonry education programs in Georgia. Its purpose is to provide for the development of entry level skills in masonry in the areas of knowledge, theoretical structure, tool usage, diagnostic ability, related supportive skills, and occupational survival skills. The first two sections of 10…

This curriculum guide was designed for use in postsecondary operating room technology education programs in Georgia. Its purpose is to provide for development of entry level skills in operating room technology in the areas of knowledge, theoretical structure, tool usage, diagnostic ability, related supportive skills, and occupational survival…