The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Intensive Journalistic Writing Institute, a 2-week summer workshop for Ohio high school teachers of journalism conducted in June 1991, demonstrated that the team of journalistic writing techniques and current composition pedagogy is unbeatable in fostering critical reading and writing skills. The institute focused on…

The information in this directory presents training programs available through public and private facilities in Ohio. The types of programs described herein include those offered in colleges and universities, in business schools, through apprenticeship training, in training schools, through home study schools, those available through special…

This report documents and highlights the effects of the career guidance section of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act in the State of Ohio during the 1988-89 fiscal year. The report asserts that Ohio has more than met the intent of the federal law in terms of the student outcomes achieved, improved career guidance program delivery, cost…

Guidelines are presented for establishing, expanding, and evaluating vocational home economics instructional programs in Ohio. The administrator and teacher-directed manual incorporates the most recent policies and procedures for programs at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult level. An outline presents an overview of the types of programs,…

This document provides an overview of the history, status, and funding of school-to-work programs in Ohio. First, school-to-work transition programs are discussed in the larger context of work force development. Presented next are the rationale for the school-to-work approach to education and its main objectives and components. The differences…

The organizational and working relationships between postsecondary education and economic development in selected states were investigated, with emphasis on identifying state-level coordinated programs in 12 geographically diverse states known to be active in linking education to economic development (Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana,…

This collection contains descriptions of model entrepreneurship education programs submitted by 10 states. The first section deals with the Colorado Network of Small Business Programs and the Colorado Entrepreneurship Education Infusion Project. Described next is a model teacher education program in entrepreneurship education that was implemented…