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Shive, Jerrald; Rogus, Joseph F. – Clearing House, 1979
Based on experiences in Dallas, Boston, and Minneapolis, guidelines are given for local school-business partnerships, including objectives, forms of cooperation, and partnership activities. In this last area, internships, magnet and specialty school programs in the above-mentioned cities are described. (SJL)
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Failure, Institutional Cooperation, Magnet Schools
McMahon, Amanda Sodoma; Meeder, Hans; Rosen, Linda P.; Silver, Steve; Williams, Andra – 2001
This document is intended to help communities plan and implement initiatives modeled after Making Academics Count, a campaign that was launched in 1997 by the Business Coalition for Education Reform (BCER) to encourage employers to ask job applicants for their school records and thereby help motivate students to achieve at higher levels. The guide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Records, Attitude Change
Dawson, Amy L.; MacAllum, Keith; Warner, Nicole – 2003
This document chronicles the experience of the National Training Institute (NTI) for Community Youth Work and four of its Building Exemplary Systems for Training Youth Workers (BEST) affiliates in establishing youth development practitioner apprenticeship (YDPA) programs. Part 1 describes the work of NTI and BEST intermediary organizations to lay…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Adoption (Ideas), Apprenticeships