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Wircenski, Jerry – National Association of Secondary School Principals Curriculum Report, 1984
This report describes three common options for designing a vocational curriculum for special-needs students and then cites operating vocational programs that use each of the options. Mainstream vocational programs, which are modified to suit special needs, as well as self-contained classes and cooperative work-experience classes, are covered. Also…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Heterogeneous Grouping, Mainstreaming
Download full textArmijo, Eduardo J.; Yount, Darrell E. – 1995
This report outlines the Quillayute Valley Child and Family Consortium's End of Year Readiness to Learn program activities, including outcomes through May 1995. The program was established in part by the Washington State Readiness to Learn Initiative, designed to help children benefit from schooling by enabling schools and social services…
Descriptors: Activities, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Caseworkers
Muraskin, Lana – 1997
This report examines best practices in the delivery of Student Support Services (SSS), one of the three Special Programs for Disadvantaged Students known as the TRIO programs. Data have shown that participation in student support services has a positive effect on student outcomes, but many participants do not receive enough services to receive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Ancillary School Services
Currie, Sheila; Foley, Kelly; Schwartz, Saul; Taylor-Lewis, Musu – 2001
In 1998, Canada's Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) conducted case studies of two work-based training and skill development programs for street youth in Vancouver, British Columbia. The BladeRunners program places youth on construction sites while encouraging them to work toward an apprenticeship in the building trades. The…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Building Trades
PDF pending restorationWalsh, John; Breglio, Vincent J. – 1976
The first of a three-volume final report, this portion presents an overview of the entire study, which was conducted to assess the effectiveness of secondary and postsecondary cooperative education programs in the nation's hundred largest cities and to analyze the postprogram experiences of participants and nonparticipants. (Volume 2 is a detailed…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Career Exploration, Case Studies, Cooperative Education
Allen, Lili – 2002
Although communities are making progress in establishing comprehensive systems for serving youth, they still face challenges. Enabling conditions that have allowed innovative youth councils to develop systems of youth development, education, and employment include: (1) youth opportunity grants; (2) established intermediary organizations; (3)…
Descriptors: Business, Case Studies, Colleges, Community Cooperation
