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Download full textFrehner, Verl L. – Nevada RCU Report, 1974
A proposed career education program in the Clark County, Nevada, school district is described, based on the following components: career awareness at the elementary school level; greater awareness and investigative and exploratory experiences at the intermediate level; continued exploratory experiences, curriculum for a purpose, and correlated…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Planning
California State Consortium on Cooperative Education, Sacramento. – 1976
Senate Bill 642, passed by the California legislature in 1973, authorized the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to conduct a pilot program in cooperative education involving no more than five community college districts for a period of up to three years. Pursuant to the law, the Chancellor has included Coast, Hartnell, Pasadena,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Consortia, Cooperative Education, Educational Innovation
Kiernan, Owen B. – VocEd, 1978
The author describes his observations on Chinese society and education during his 1978 visit with the official delegation of United States educators. He notes what Americans would consider primitive facilities and programs, the tremendous problems of China's size and population, and the overriding influence of political concerns on education. (MF)
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Educational Methods, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Pedraza, Rachel A.; Pauly, Edward; Kopp, Hilary – 1997
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) of 1994 provides flexible funding and technical assistance to the education reform strategy known as the school-to-work movement, which offers a broad range of students work-based learning opportunities. In 1994, just before passage of the STWOA, the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewedWiltberger, Heather – Society, 1982
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act established provisions whereby youth may receive academic credit for skills acquired through work experience, but many educational institutions have not sanctioned these provisions. This problem was explored in a study of credit availability, type of credit, and the relationship between credit…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Credits, Federal Programs
Douglas, Willard B.; Carter, Thomas C., III – Business Education World, 1979
Describes Lester Hill, a simulated corporation, that students utilize in education for clerical, secretarial, or distributive services. Following job interviews, students, assigned to appropriate jobs, process computer cards (simulated merchandise) through sales, warehouse, traffic, and accounting departments. Reviews roles of management, outside…
Descriptors: Distributive Education, Employment Interviews, Experiential Learning, Job Training
Blanton, Lloyd H. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1975
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Cooperative Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Parmley, John D. – 1983
Intended for secondary and postsecondary teachers of agriculture, this handbook presents guidelines for developing and supervising occupational experience programs. The first section is a general discussion of vocational education in agriculture. The next section considers identification of student occupational goals and development of an…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Course Descriptions
Rock, Maxine – 1982
A conference was held for college presidents, student work supervisors, and students who are involved in student-work programs. Attending the conference were representatives of the following colleges: Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky; Berea College, Berea, Kentucky; Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia; Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Higher Education, Program Costs, Program Descriptions
Smith, Blanche G. – Career Education Digest, 1974
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Peer reviewedLord, A. E., Jr. – American Journal of Physics, 1975
Describes projects provided in the Physics Department at Drexel University during the last four years for inner-city students sponsored by the Neighborhood Youth Corps. Includes the author's feelings and conclusions about such a program. (Author/MLH)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth, Physical Sciences, Program Descriptions
Weaver, Diane – 1981
This manual describes the Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) program at Hagerstown Junior College (HJC) as a model for community colleges interested in implementing a community-based career exploration program. The first sections of the manual present background information on the program and HJC. Next, the components of the EBCE program are…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Course Descriptions
Larson, Carl H. – 1978
An exemplary project was initiated in March of 1977 as a jointly operated project with Arrowhead Area Education Agency 5 and Iowa Central Community College. The purpose of the effort was to analyze the potential and demonstrate the components of the Experience-Based Career Education--Appalachia Education Laboratory (EBCE-AEL) model for mildly…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Experiential Learning, Individualized Instruction
Pooley, Richard C. – 1980
The activities of the first 6 months of a project designed to help 27 emotionally disturbed and learning disabled adolescent boys (ages 14 to 16) overcome the handicapping conditions which render them unemployable are reported. Successful aspects of the program were the career education, community based career development, and volunteer work…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Career Exploration, Dropouts
GERARD, ROBERT A. – 1966
THE PROGRAM, DESIGNED TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW METHODS OF EMPLOYING YOUTHS FROM LOW- AND MARGINAL-INCOME FAMILIES, EMPLOYED 170 YOUTHS AGED 16 TO 21 IN IMPROVING AND DEVELOPING VACANT AREAS FOR RECREATION IN DECLINING NEIGHBORHOODS. THE LONGER RANGE GOALS OF THE PROJECT WERE TO ENCOURAGE THE YOUTHS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR SKILLED EMPLOYMENT AND TO…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Indigenous Personnel, Neighborhood Improvement
