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McCormick, Kathleen – American School Board Journal, 1984
A number of successful school-business partnerships are highlighted. These include "Adopt-A-School" programs (designed to meet specific goals), comprehensive partnerships, and other institutions such as the US government, the New York Alliance for the Public Schools, and the Trilateral Council for Quality Education in Boston. (TE)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship, Private Financial Support
Peer reviewedPolansky, Daniel W. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1979
The Vocational Exploration Program was an 8 week summer employment and education program which gave 14 deaf students an opportunity to study the attitudes of employers and students in work situations and some ideas on how to better prepare for jobs in the labor market. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Deafness, Employer Attitudes, Hearing Impairments
Direct linkArmsby, Pauline; Costley, Carol; Garnett, Jonathan – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2006
Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) is now an established but relatively under used process in higher education (HE). In our review article, we argue that this is because APEL not only challenges the traditional university monopoly of knowledge but also challenges other established processes and social constructions. Work-Based…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Tutors, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Beville, Sylvia L.; Nickerson, Carol – 1981
This paper reports on an experiment to test youth employment as a tactic for delinquency prevention. Features of jobs that should cause young people to develop a stake in doing well are described. Three elements of the bond to work that enable the work experience to reduce delinquency are identified: commitment, attachment, and belief. Various…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Delinquency Prevention, Employment Programs
Gustafsson, Ingemar – 1986
This paper describes two programs in Botswana and Zimbabwe in which manual work forms an integral part of the educational program. It analyzes their objectives and structure and discusses constraints against the background of socioeconomic change in the two countries. Differences are identified and discussed. The first two sections deal separately…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Walker, Bonnie L.; And Others – 1980
The manual describes the development and implementation of the Career Development Program at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD). The program is said to provide a step-by-step introduction to the world of work. Nine courses are offered, with a focus on five goals: increased awareness of the world of work; exploration of a variety of…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Wotowiec, Peter J. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1975
Service horticulture, a many-faceted industry providing job opportunities for people of differing abilities, is taught in Cleveland in eight high schools and one special horticultural education center; costs are reduced by coordinating with other school programs. Right to placement in industry for work-study must be earned by students. (AJ)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Business Skills, Horticulture, Off Farm Agricultural Occupations
Maples, Wayne; And Others – 1980
The report evaluates Texas' Multiple Careers Magnet Center (MCMC), a part time program to provide special education secondary students with career training. It is explained that students enter one of six career education clusters: furniture repair and upholstery, general construction trades, building and grounds maintenance, laundry and dry…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Demography, Disabilities, Homemaking Skills
Parkinson, Guy M. – 1980
The paper describes the Related Vocational Instruction (RVI) and Career Employment Experience (CEE) Programs at a Georgia high school and explains how the programs cooperated to better serve the needs of the educable mentally handicapped students in the school. The goal of the RVI program is to provide secondary handicapped students with job entry…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Experiential Learning
Hirsch, Sharlene P. – 1979
The document describes the Executive High School Internships program which mainstreamed a pilot group of 14 high potential students with orthopedic, hearing, and sight impairments into a project which enabled them to spend a full term, on leave from classes, in nonpaid placements with public and private sector managers and executives, learning how…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Gifted, Hearing Impairments
Download full textFulmer, John L. – 1975
The report describes the first year (1974-75) activities and accomplishments of a project to provide a cooperative-based vocational agriculture program for secondary students in Anniston, Alabama. The overall objectives were to provide instruction in livestock production and horticulture, leadership training, participatory experience on a real…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs
National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1973
The report represents an abridged summary of a study which assessed secondary and postsecondary work education programs and suggested ways they might be modified or expanded. A stratified, random sample of 50 work-education sites was drawn for the study from a set of 500 representative programs. Specific occupational training, dropout prevention,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention
Rhodes, Harvey B. – 1968
A detailed description of a vocational retraining project for unemployed and undereducated adults developed in California by Modesto Junior College between 1964 and 1966 was made. Over 1,000 unemployed and undereducated adults were referred to the New Hope Project under the provisions of the Manpower Development and Training Act. The primary goals…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Disadvantaged, Dropout Rate, Employment Opportunities
Wilson, Kathryn A.; Thompson, Donald L. – 1974
The evaluation and placement of rehabilitation clients has been problematic. In addition to physical and emotional problems, these individuals suffer from a variety of unique handicaps. With this in mind, a program was developed to assess the present abilities and future potential of such a client to perform certain work tasks. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Program Descriptions, Rehabilitation Programs, Simulated Environment
Wood, Thomas N., III – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1976
Summarized are the development, operation and outcomes of a successful summer agricultural work experience course for high school students. (MS)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Program Evaluation
