Research reported here is a consequence of a National Institute of Education grant to study Sweden's PRYO on location. PRYO is Sweden's acronym for its Practical Work Orientation, a compulsory involvement for all 15 and 16 year olds presently contained in the nine-year comprehensive school. (Author)

Educators sometimes fail to adequately bring about school community collaboration. To do so, cooperative policy adjustments must be made, such as the supportive network created in the Dallas "Adopt-a-School" Program. Too, implementation adjustments must be made in the development of an action-learning program such as the flexible…

The article points out how the Junior Achievement program has provided youth with hands-on work experience and the responsibilities of administering a small business. Program goals, operation, and expansion over its 55 year history are described. (Author/MS)

Attempts to validate the Parallel Plan of Cooperative Education, discusses utilization of student's current jobs in cooperative education, the practice of volunteer jobs in cooperative education, and the use of Federal College Work Study funds in selective Cooperative Education placements. (Author/RK)

A summer work experience program for 10th and 11th graders with visual impairments includes a three-week residential-living experience in which students are evaluated in the areas of daily living, orientation and mobility, socialization, vocational abilities, and career planning and a six-week segment in which students work at paid jobs.…

The Youth Services Training Program in Westport, Connecticut, eases handicapped youngsters through the sometimes anguishing step from school to job. (Editor)

Describes a program designed to stimulate potential dropouts and for making school more relevant to many disadvantaged and previously unmotivated 14- and 15-year-old students. (Author/RK)

A community internship program, a school-within-a-school, an educational park, an open school, and a drop-out school all offer new approaches to social education. (KM)

Students in the Sea Semester, a program sponsored by the Sea Education Association, spend six weeks in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, studying oceanography, nautical science, and maritime history and then they board the brigantine "Cramer" and continue another six weeks of study on the water. (MLW)

Reports the lessons and experience gained through implementation of commissioned projects conducted by Hong Kong business students for commercial firms. Evaluation indicates that such commissioned projects should be integrated into course structure, and instructors should seek more support from sponsor firms.(EV)