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Download full textNogales High School District 10, AZ.
Descriptions of the Nogales dropout prevention program, including activities of the career counseling center and causes for dropping out of school, introduce the guide. The goals and objectives of the independent study center for potential dropouts include giving assistance to students so they may complete their high school education and guidance…
Descriptors: Career Education, Counseling Services, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Coakley, Carroll B. – 1989
This paper describes a program to provide educational and employment services to high school dropouts and unemployed adults in seven rural Tennessee counties. The program offers supplemental services and coordinates job development and placement with Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) administrative personnel. Program activities include basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Daily Living Skills, Dropout Programs
LeConche, John J. – 1975
The project combines full-time and on-the-job work experience with related programs of youth activities and classroom instruction, and provides an avenue for acquiring the Connecticut State Equivalency Diploma. It is aimed at serving young adults in Hartford, Connecticut who have left school before completing 12 years and who are unable to obtain…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Distributive Education
Glaser, Roberta E.; Kley, Raymond C. – 1982
Ohio's Occupational Work Adjustment (OWA) program is a one- to two-year ungraded vocational program for fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds who have been identified as potential dropouts from the regular educational program. Begun on a pilot basis in 1967, OWA served over 80,000 students in 499 programs during the 1981-82 school year. The goal of OWA,…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Tucson Public Schools, AZ. – 1976
The project was designed to accomplish three major goals: to broaden occupational understandings of pupils K-12, to expand employment opportunities of minority youth dropouts or potential dropouts, and to develop long-term cooperation and communication between the school and community employers or agencies. Major project accomplishments fell into…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bilingual Education, Career Awareness, Career Counseling
Escambia County Board of Public Instruction, Pensacola, FL. – 1990
This report summarizes the major programs of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in Escambia County School District, Florida. The report identifies the district's concerns and priorities for the following: state-of-the-art, computer-assisted instruction for basic skills attainment; reconnecting dropouts through aggressive recruitment…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Career Counseling, Computer Assisted Instruction
PDF pending restorationConnecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Div. of Vocational-Technical Schools. – 1985
Bilingual vocational training programs (BVTPs) are provided at 10 regional vocational-technical schools (RVTSs) throughout Connecticut. The BVTP model is based on the following components: job-entry trade and related education skills taught bilingually, job-specific English-as-a-second-language (ESL) instruction, preventive counseling and a life…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Bilingual Education, Cooperative Planning
