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Smith, Clifton L.; Edmunds, Niel A. – 1999
This guide is intended to help career and technical education teachers perform the new roles expected of them in view of the new emphasis on school-to-careers programs. The following are among the topics discussed in the guide's nine chapters: role of the career and technical educator; providing career guidance; integrating academic and career and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Relations
Brooke, Michael, Ed.; Waldron, Mark, Ed. – 1994
This book contains the following papers about the role and activities of Canada's universities in continuing education: "Introduction" (Brooke, Waldron); "Continuing Education and the Canadian Mosaic" (Selman); "Philosophical Issues in Continuing Education" (Selman); "Improving Support Services for Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Programs, College Role, Community Education
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1992
These proceedings include 13 "perspectives from the field" and 9 selected papers (with abstracts) from a national conference on recommended policies and practices for investing in youth. The 13 perspectives papers are as follows: "Saving the Next Generation" (Berlin); "Effective Strategies for Investing in Youth"…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Action, Coordination, Dropout Prevention
Download full textOffice of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1983
During the 1980-81 school year, enrollments in vocational education programs totaled nearly 16.9 million and federal, state, and local capital outlays for vocational education increased by approximately $470 million from 1979-80 to an all-time high of $7.3 billion. Vocational education also served significantly increased numbers of handicapped,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annual Reports, Bilingual Education, Compliance (Legal)
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1984
This catalog lists exemplary field-based program improvement products identified by the Dissemination and Utilization Products and Services Program (D&U) at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. It is designed to increase awareness of these products among vocational educators and to provide information about them that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Guidance
Treadway, Peter G.; And Others – 1981
A study examined whether the Career Intern Program (CIP) can be replicated in new sites at reasonable cost within a reasonable period of time. (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Counseling Services
Beaumont, Andre G.; And Others – 1978
Developed as a guide for college administrators for establishing, improving, and evaluating career counseling and placement programs, this document describes specific activities for such programs under two categories: student-oriented activities and administrative and managerial activities. The student-oriented activities (Part I) cover the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Budgeting, Career Counseling, Career Education
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Div. of Occupational and Vocational Studies. – 1978
A study was conducted to determine the state of the art in vocational education programming for disadvantaged in Pennsylvania and the nation, and to develop materials to improve vocational programs for the disadvantaged. Project efforts focused on programs serving the academically/economically disadvantaged in regular classes, special classes, and…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Sareen, Harvinder; Visencio, Diane; Russ, Shirley; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2005
If early childhood systems are to be effective at the population level then they must be able to provide family-centered care to all the racial, ethnic and cultural groups that they serve. Despite major policy driven and technological advances in healthcare, health disparities across different races and ethnicities persist. For example, the infant…
Descriptors: Pediatrics, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Differences, Parent Attitudes
Craig, Annette; And Others – 1993
This workbook, which is designed primarily for secondary school administrators involved in planning youth apprenticeship programs, explains approaches to youth apprenticeship that have evolved from operation of the Pickens County Youth Apprenticeship Initiative (PCYAI) in Easley, South Carolina. Discussed first are guiding principles regarding the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)
Highline Community Coll., Des Moines, WA. – 1997
This guide, which is intended primarily for school and college personnel interested in initiating or improving work-based learning, examines the development and implementation of work-based education programs in Washington. The following topics are discussed: the rationale for work-based learning (legislative and educational change information,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Child Labor, Classification, Compliance (Legal)
National TAFE Clearinghouse, Adelaide (Australia). – 1986
These issues contain abstracts of research reports, literature reviews, conference proceedings, directories, project reports, and other documents describing work being done in the field of technical and further education in Australia. The issues contain 127 and 172 entries, respectively. Each entry contains the following information: a Technical…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adult Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. – 1983
The New York State Board of Regents conducted a formal review of the long-range goals and policy directions for vocational rehabilitative services to disabled youth and adults in New York. The first phase of the review consisted of an examination of major pieces of vocational and special education legislation, current federal and state economic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Role, Change Strategies, Cooperative Programs
Wichowski, Chester; Walker, Thomas – 1982
Results are reported of a nationwide survey to identify and categorize research questions related to the trade and industrial education area. (Respondents were members of the Policy and Planning Committee and the Research Committee of the American Vocational Association's Trade and Industrial Division, state and territorial supervisors of trade…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Career Counseling
Brown, Larry – 2001
Youth development lies at the heart of the Workforce Investment Act and the Youth Opportunity Movement. Like employment training programs for adults, employment training programs for youth should focus on acquisition of skills, gainful employment, and productive citizenship. Beyond these three characteristics, it is essential that programs for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Programs, Community Programs
