This document presents guidelines to help school personnel design efficient administration day care services for young children and their families. Topics discussed include day care philosophy, historical perspective, and rationale; some basic program planning and procedure suggestions; coordination of day care and public school programs; staff…

The objectives, program, participants, and evaluation of The Administration of Instructional Change (TAIC) Institute are described in this report. The training program was designed to help teams of local leadership personnel to design strategies using media to cope with problems that blocked change, as well as to facilitate change by integrating…

Planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS) have borne few of the fruits that many claimed they would. This is partly due to the five following widely held misconceptions about PPBS: 1) that PPBS is primarily concerned with budgeting; 2) that PPBS should displace instructional goals; 3) that it is not necessary to attend to all elements of PPBS;…

This publication is designed to serve school administrators interested in reviewing the key administrative concepts relative to cooperative vocational education. The document identifies the various types of cooperative programs, the advantages of cooperative education, and the major limiting factors related to the administration of these programs.…

This document is a collection of the papers, reactions, discussions, and perspectives derived from the Conference on Rehabilitation in the Inner City. Conference participants included representatives of Model Cities Programs, State-Federal Vocational Rehabilitation agencies, New Careers Programs, Community Development Agencies, Neighborhood…

Vocational Village was opened by the Portland (Oregon) School District in 1968 to provide opportunities for students who had not been successful in traditional high school programs. A basic concept of the programs initiated at Vocational Village was the desire to personalize and individualize instruction. However, as operations got under way it…

The purpose of the study, as stated, was to identify and arrange educational needs of migrant children and make recommendations for programs with the objective of improving and equalizing educational opportunities for children of migrant families in the State of Washington. The assessment was based on lay people and educators incorporating the…

At this Region VIII conference called by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 150 participants from six western states met to discuss how career education needs of youth and adults and the needs of the economy are being met by schools in their communities, to determine the role that vocational education is playing in the process, and…

This guide was prepared to assist administrators and directors of training in planning and operating programs to train or upgrade personnel in general household service occupations and special areas. Topics cover: (1) Purpose of the Training Program, (2) Planning the Program, which includes establishing the need, program objectives, and advisory…

These studies were undertaken to evaluate the 1967 summer school programs in the District of Columbia funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. There were 18 different Title I programs, involving approximately 15,000 students. There were two main aspects of the evaluation: (1) the statistical aspects included a…

In the Programed Tutorial Reading Project in the Indianapolis School District, over 1,200 first and second graders are tutored in reading by paraprofessionals for 15 minutes a day as a supplement to classroom teaching. All of the children are from schools that have a high enrollment of disadvantaged children, and include approximately 75 percent…

The Vermont Regional Community College Commission was established to oversee the pre-planning phase of the OEO grant to establish a community college demonstration model. The VRCCC developed a demonstration model of the community college system through 3 regional sites responsible for developing community college operations in Vermont communities.…

A computerized model was developed to evaluate local vocational education programs in relation to the various functions of vocational education. A data base was generated using the local school districts' information and the output was designed for local self-evaluation use in further planning and review of the overall vocational education plan.…

The tenth annual report on institutional training under the Manpower Development and Training Act is organized as follows: (1) MDTA institutional training highlights: 1962-71; (2) the program in profile--training opportunities, characteristics of institutional trainees, occupations of training, institutional training programs, state programs,…

At the Unesco General Conference, Seventeenth Session, held in Paris in 1972, Programme Commission III (for Social Sciences, Humanities, and Culture) devoted seventeen meetings to a debate on the main lines and general issues which concern the development of these disciplines. Three major aims for 1973-74 are: to increase understanding of how to…