The authors reveal the allure and the fallacy of the American belief that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems.
This chapter discusses the challenge of aligning four necessary elements—instructor approach, student needs, curricular content, and instructional support—in the developmental classroom.
This article examines the logic of the "improved school finance," which posits that understanding how resources are used at the school and classroom levels is necessary for determining equitable funding.
This report, commissioned by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) of the U.S. Department of Education, examines the rationale for federal involvement in occupational education.
This report reviews the available evidence on the economic benefits of postsecondary education below the level of the baccalaureate degree, concentrating on the effects of community colleges.
This book chapter, published in Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia, provides an overview of occupational education in higher education.
This article analyzes the roles of counselors in the Puente program, a high school intervention designed to improve guidance and counseling for disadvantaged high school students.
This paper discusses how the potential richness and complexity of vocational instruction are often undeveloped within the classroom and unrecognized by academic instructors and administrators.
This article, published in Career Research and Development, the NICEC Journal, discusses the role of information in guidance and counseling and the preconditions necessary for individuals to use information well.
This report offers insight into how research evaluating the effectiveness of remedial education can be improved to shed light on how these programs can be improved.
This book chapter, published in Learning.Now: Skills for an Information Economy, discusses the increasing need for information-based workforce preparation in community colleges.
This book addresses the why and how of vocational education evaluation, and discusses the use and abuse of available evaluation results in policymaking.
This paper addresses the issue of performance funding and its implications for California's community colleges. It was prepared for the State Chancellor's Office, California Community Colleges.
While community colleges serve many goals and missions, their occupational purposes are central. This brief uses national data to evaluate the economic benefits of sub-baccalaureate education.
This book examines the nature of teaching and the institutional forces that shape it in a variety of course settings, ranging from innovative approaches to complex subjects to conventional didactic instruction.
This monograph describes two innovations—curriculum integration and Tech Prep—that emerged independently of federal funding and that have widespread support.
