There are many reasons why students drop out of school, and therefore, it requires more than a single solution to prevent it from occurring. According to the National Dropout Prevention Center, career and technical education should be included as part of the overall solution. This article is divided into the following sections: A Model Program;…

How do out-of-school-time (OST) programs get from attendance to active engagement? School researchers propose that engagement is composed of three "ABC" components, affect, behavior, and cognition, which can also be applied to OST programs. Affective engagement refers to positive and negative reactions to teachers, classmates, the academic…

Hoping to motivate more California students to finish high school and find future success, the James Irvine Foundation last week announced a new center aimed at expanding work-based learning programs that integrate high-level academics. Called ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career, the new project will seek to provide solutions…

This study sought to identify institutional selection factors most influential upon small-college student-athletes. Mean scores for 229 freshman student-athletes from six institutions were analyzed using a modified Student-Athlete College Choice Profile Scale. The sample was also stratified by gender and sports-program categories. Overall, four of…

Article attempts to enhance administrative bargaining power through the effective use of information-based strategies. Strategies. calculated to achieve academic redesign are included in the text. (Author/HB)

In dealing with a small college theater production program the first thing to consider is the aim and purpose of the program and how this fits in with the goals and mission of the department and the college. The main goal of the program should be the education of students--both those involved in the production, and those who will see…

A discussion of the academic counselor's role from the point of view that a balance of objectives, with a meaningful integration of communicable knowledge, with the felt need of the learner, is a desirable goal. (Author/HB)

Until 1970 the philosophy resources at the Academy Library were used in connection with academic studies in English, history, social sciences, or an occasional philosophy course. During that year philosophy courses were re-introduced into the regular academic program and the development of the philosophy collection was begun. This bibliography…

A review of the literature for the approximate decade from the late sixties to the early seventies shows that the division between academic and vocational education is not considered an advisable one. A need for interdisciplinary integration is expressed together with brief examinations of such attempts. There is a pattern revealed in the…

The study characterizes the 1971 enlistees by relating their education, race, age, and test performance to their perceived draft vulnerability as high, moderate, or low draft pressure, or not eligible for the draft, and comparing them to the 1970 accessions. It was found that the 1971 accessions demonstrated less aptitude and were less…

Study was conducted to resolve contradiction between dropout estimates presented in federal reports and research results cited through reanalysis of High School and Beyond survey. Results suggest (1) dropout rate for students in general education is greater than for vocational students and (2) vocational education is serving students with…

Examines whether Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) activities are academic or extracurricular, and liability in the event of accident. A case study is presented. (BL)

A combination of mathematical physics and legal science provide the means for deductively formulating theory and verifying it operationally. Such a combination provides the support onto which the rest of the college curriculum can be anchored. (HS)

Revisits high schools that were pioneers in curriculum integration in the early 1990s to see where they are now. Profiled are Woodland High School (California), Polytech High School (Woodside, Delaware), and Dauphin County Technical School (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania). (JOW)