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Peer reviewedMiller, Sandra W.; Byers, Charles W. – Tech Directions, 1998
Describes the "Industry Exploration Tour," which provides vocational educators with hands-on experience to learn the needs and wants of industry as they relate to preparing people for work. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Inservice Teacher Education
Download full textBrand, Betsy; Partee, Glenda; Kaufmann, Barbara; Wills, Joan – 2000
A series of five discussions with more than 50 people involved in the national school-to-work initiative created by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (STWOA) resulted in the following conclusions (among others): (1) Problems with the concept include a negative attitude toward the phrase "school-to-work," the complicated nature…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Public Perceptions of School to Work: First Year Progress. Arizona School to Work Briefing Paper #7.
Vandegrift, Judith A.; Wright, Joel – 1997
In spring 1997, Arizona repeated a spring 1996 statewide public poll that established baseline measures of public attitudes toward school-to-work (STW). Samples were drawn from three constituent groups: parents, businesses, and educators. Over 2,700 Arizonans participated each year. Overall awareness of STW was up significantly among every group.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Design, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
Work-based education (WBE), including traditional vocational education and other career-focused programs, was an important curricular component in American schools for most of the 20th century. The 1990s was a period of substantial change for work-based education (WBE). Spurred on by a concern about the international competitiveness of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Tech Prep, Education Work Relationship
