The integration of digital initiatives in middle and secondary level education has significantly transformed the learning landscape at national, state, and local levels. Governments and educational institutions are leveraging technology to enhance accessibility, engagement, and effectiveness in teaching and learning. At the national level,…

This report presents results of a project to produce a set of strategies to ensure the compatibility of Australian state and territory information systems with the requirements of the National Management Information and Statistics System (NATMISS) and the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard…

This bulletin focuses on the connection between student performance and standards that has led to reform efforts designed to set high standards and develop new ways to measure student performance. It provides an overview of national, state, and local efforts to develop standards. The bulletin then discusses these practitioner-identified approaches…

Compiled for the purpose of encouraging the sharing of ideas concerning viable rural education programs, this manual provides descriptions of activities in the fields of adult, community, and vocational education which have been successful in serving rural populations. The information is divided into three areas: state projects, national projects,…

This volume of an annual journal explores the problems and opportunities confronting young people attempting to find employment and the challenges faced by employment and training professionals trying to assist them along with some possible solutions. The 16 articles are divided into three parts concerned respectively with defining the problems,…

The next step in the school-to-career (STC) movement is to build upon its significant successes in today's policy and political environment. The School to Work Opportunities Act 1994 codifies a reform agenda to promote academic achievement and economic opportunity for young people during and after high school. Its general principles are that most…

Vocational education's mission in economic development calls for a more active and assertive posture at the national, state, and local levels. If vocational education programs are to meet the challenges posed by the increase of new technologies, vocational administrators must develop a system for updating vocational staff for hiring more…

These proceedings represent a compilation of the papers presented at a conference on entrepreneurship education that was designed to promote the infusion of entrepreneurial concepts into vocational education curricula. Included in the first section of the volume are descriptions of the following projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of…

This sixth in a series of six learning modules on student vocational organizations is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in understanding and using contests to promote student growth. The terminal objective for the module is to guide participation in student vocational organization contests. Introductory sections…

Covering 1978, the first year that vocational programs and related activities were supported under P.L. 94-482, this report describes the impact for each section of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 on the growth and development of vocational and technical education. Materials, divided into two sections on state vocational and national…

This guide for community-based organizations (CBOs) touches on some of the many opportunities for worthwhile collaboration between CBOs and the schools. It suggests several strategies CBOs can use to (1) increase the access of disadvantaged youth and adults to vocational programs and (2) coordinate their own employment and training efforts with…

This yearbook includes 17 papers organized into 3 sections devoted to the concepts that leadership begins with people, requires action, and must be purposeful. The following articles are included: "Personal Skill Development" (Van Huss); "Leadership Profiles" (Fry, Hibler); "Leadership: From the Classroom to the Boardroom" (Felton); "Planting the…

The financing of vocational education and training (VET) in Finland was examined. The analysis included consideration of the following: the legal, political, economic, and administrative background to financing of the VET system; European Union, state, regional, municipal, and social partner funding of the various types of initial and continuing…

This congressional report contains testimony given in relation to the passage of the Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act (S. 2325). (The Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act is legislation designed to consolidate existing federal vocational and adult education programs, to simplify requirements for states and other…

This third annual compilation presents resources of 183 ongoing projects in career education, vocational education, and education and work, that are administered by such agencies as the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Career Education, National Institute of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and Office of…